Pacific Rim studies
African American studies
Middle Eastern literature
Folklore
Middle Eastern Literature
Moʻolelo
Postcolonial novels
Postcolonial theory
Resistance Narratives
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Colonialism radically transformed the cultures of colonized peoples, often rupturing Indigenous traditions and folklore. Whether creating colonial discourse, promoting orientalist literature, advocating western educational institutions, or through biased media representations,
imperial powers systematically oppressed Indigenous and Native peoples. Subjugated communities, however, created, and still form postcolonial discourse from their knowledge systems. This discourse insists on Indigenous and Native culture as central to Indigenous and Native peoples identity. This study examines the postcolonial literature of three groups: Kānaka Maoli, African Americans, and Iraqis.
The scope of this dissertation scrutinizes how folklore is employed
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