Coming of Age: Hawaiian Culture in Kirby Wright's Fiction by Jennifer Schomberg

March 4, 2017 by admin

By Jennifer Schomberg

Bachelor Thesis from the 12 months 2008 within the topic American stories - Literature, grade: 2,0, TU Dortmund (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), language: English, summary: Love and hate, pleasure and anger, ardour and frustration, existence and goals, hopes and illusions – the subjects and themes to be present in Kirby Wright’s fictional works is never-ending. A California resident with Hawaiian blood, growing to be up in Honolulu, hello, and attending Punahou college, a personal institution with such beautiful graduates like presidential candidate and governor Barack Obama, successful brief tale and poetry contests in his teenage years after which publishing winning novels afterward, Wright lived his dream popping out of an international that was once stuck in among cultures, which may no longer be any assorted. stories that at once translated into his works, with the protagonists Jeffrey and Ben Gill roaming the islands of Hawaii, regularly trying to find how to unite either worlds and loose themselves of the stigma of being a hapa haole.
The current paper focusses at the fictional paintings of Kirby Wright, together with the novels Punahou Blues and Molokai Nui Ahina, and explores the best way Hawaiian tradition and the subject of “coming-of-age” in a multicultural society are built-in and used. a quick advent to Hawaiian literature and cultural historical past, together with a portrait of writer Kirby Wright, should be by means of a precis of either novels and a glance into to what volume the environment of a unique is important to its interpretation, sooner than i'm going to then discover the best way Wright offered the coming-of-age of the protagonist in his paintings and in how a long way this used to be hooked up to Hawaiian tradition and traditions.

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