Hawaii Nei: Island Plays

by Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl

Book Overview

Hawaii Nei brings together three plays by one of Hawaii's finest playwrights. A compassionate portrait of early nineteenth- century Hawaii, "The Conversion of Kaahumanu" charts the lives of five women during the traumatic, transforming events that followed Western contact. Set in post-World War II Hawaii, "Emmalehua" tells the story of a young Hawaiian woman struggling to preserve a cherished cultural heritage in a world eager to forget the past and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082482539X
• ISBN13: 9780824825393
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"