TO DWELL AND TO REINHABIT: KIANA DAVENPORTS’S HOUSE OF MANY GODS AS BIOREGIONAL LITERATURE
Journal Title: Berumpun: International Journal of Social, Politics and Humanities - Year 2018, Vol 1, Issue 1
Abstract
Environmental degradation has become a pivotal issue in Hawai’i nowadays. The policies of United States’ government and military has shaped the Hawai’ian ecology. Through the process of ecological imperialism, started from the beginning of American colonialism, both the Hawai’ian’s landscape and their connection with the environment is disrupted. Modern Hawai’ian ecology nowadays is a postcolonial ecology, which was, and still is molded by the American imperial power. As a product of colonialism, Hawai’ians’ have become alienated with their ancestral traditions, especially regarding interrelation between human and non-human. Taking cues from Lawrence Buell’s assertion that environmental crisis is a crisis of the imagination, modern Hawai’ian literature tries to reorient human–non human relationship from indigenous Hawai’ian epistemology. As seen in Kiana Davenport’s the House of Many Gods, traditional Hawai’ian perspective is reimagined to reterritorialize Hawai’ians in their previous environmental outlook, before the arrival of the Americans. This study argues that by several bioregional concepts such as dwelling, and reinhabit, Kiana Davenport’s the House of Many Gods can be stated as a bioregional literature.
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Kristiawan Indriyanto
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- DOI 10.33019/berumpun.v1i1.6
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