Huihui: Navigating Art and Literature in the PacificJeffreyCarroll, BrandyNālani McDougall, and GeorganneNordstrom, Editors. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2015.

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Huihui: Navigating Art and Literature in Jeffrey Carroll, Brandy Nâlani McDougall, and Georganne Nordstrom, Editors. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2015.The Ocean covers approximately one-third of planet and is bigger than earth's combined landmass. The stretches from North to South Pole, has deepest ocean trench in world (the Mariana Trench), and world's tallest mountain measured from ocean floor to summit (Mauna Kea). Throughout this vast water world, islands of astounding natural beauty are home to many different cultures and languages. island communities harbor deep histories of settlement and conquest, colonization and militarization, dispossession and migration, miss ionization and tourism, and subsequent mixing and mingling of peoples. Huihui: Navigating Art and Literature in speaks both to and of those issues through a cross-genre selection of poetry, short fiction, critical essays, speeches, personal narratives, and images from across Pacific. In Hawaiian, huihui means mixed, mingled, united, joined; to pool (1), a title well chosen to signify anthology's confluence of voices and creativity, which flows from rhetoric of sovereignty to aesthetics of indigenous epistemologies.Huihui uses Hawaiian expressions and concepts to articulate its mission and focus. Editors Jeffrey Carroll, Georganne Nordstrom, and Brandy Nalani McDougall are faculty members at University of Hawai'i at Manoa in English and American Studies. Their intention with Huihui s constellation of creative and scholarly narratives is to recognize the rhetorical and aesthetic sovereignty of Indigenous peoples of Pacific (6) in an effort to engage in dialogue with cultural and geopolitical movements currently happening in region. For readers interested in these developments, Huihui offers a rich opportunity to consider long-term effects of Euro-American colonization of islands, in particular presence of US military bases and on-going questions of sovereignty and economic dependency. Huihui brings together these well-known authors, artists, scholars, and indigenous leaders: Albert Wendt, ku'ualoha ho'omanawanui, Kalena Silva, Steven Winduo, Flora Devatine, Selina Tusitala Marsh, Alice Te Punga Somerville, Jo Smith, Chantal Spitz, Haunani-Kay Trask, Mililani Trask, Steven Gin, Lisa King, Michael Puleloa, Craig Santos Perez, Jonathan Kay Kamakawiwo'ole Osorio, Dan Taulapapa McMullin, Michael Puleloa, Gregory Clark, and Chelle Pahinui. Jointly, their voices articulate survivance (3), a term used by Anishinaabe writer and scholar Gerald Vizenor to describe cultural continuance and actual presence of indigenous peoples otherwise silenced by colonization and its aftereffects. …