Mālama ʻĀina and Ea in Shark Dialogues and The Watcher of Waipuna
Kiana Davenport and Gary Pak are contemporary literary voices of Hawaiʻi, diverse in background and style. Davenport’s novel Shark...
Hawaiian Identity in a Changing Society
The Hawaiian people stem from rich cultural roots that have grown into something unlike the traditional culture that used to be found in...
Kiana Davenport and the Mystery of the Missed Climax
Kiana Davenport has been publishing books for over twenty years. In 1994 she published Shark Dialogues, a novel about a multigenerational...
The Exiled: Ostracism and Ideologies During the Leprosy Epidemic in Hawaiʻi As Portrayed in Shark Di
In as early as the 1830s, Hansen’s disease – more commonly known as leprosy – was detected among foreigners and natives residing in...
What Are You?
The complexity and evolution of the mixed races of Hawai‘i has caused much discourse – in academic papers as well as in Hawai‘i’s...
The Kahuna in Pono
The novel Shark Dialogues by Kiana Davenport is centered on the life of Pono, a Hawaiian woman who has shamanistic powers, what the...
Pidgin and Humor: Shark Dialogues vs. Reality
It is difficult to properly imitate a dialect on paper – to do so requires a lot of research and a fierceness to remain true to its...
Nature as a Unifying Thread in Kiana Davenport's Shark Dialogues
Kiana Davenport’s Shark Dialogues begins with an introduction to a Hawaiian Kahuna, Pono, and her four granddaughters, “hybrids of the...
Shark Dialogues: A Confused Piece of Fiction
Shark Dialogues is a novel about a multigenerational family. It focuses on Pono, and four of her grandchildren. We are given the story of...
Shark Dialogues and Mixed Heritage Identities
As English settlers and many other foreign races began traveling to the Hawaiian Islands, a blending of cultures started to take place....
