Graduation Year
2022
Document Type
Open Access Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
English
Second Department
Environmental Analysis
Reader 1
Kevin Dettmar
Reader 2
Char Miller
Abstract
In the second half of my thesis, I explore Asian settler claims to belonging in Hawai'i through fictional literature from and about the Islands. I investigate the ways in which authors manufacture ideas of home and belonging and localness in their works by reconstructing Native Hawaiian ontologies to varying degrees of success, and parse apart the ways in which certain novels or collections of short stories such as The Descendants by Kaui Hart Hemmings and Language of the Geckos and Other Stories by Gary Pak navigate what it means to be at home in Hawai'i.
Recommended Citation
Shinn, Alice, "Home/land Security: Asian Settlers, Native Hawaiians, and Claims to Belonging in "Hawaiian" Fiction" (2022). Pomona Senior Theses. 261.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/pomona_theses/261
