General Recap Notes

Genral Recap:

Hawaiian Literature can be defined (simply) into three periods:

	Time Period	Characteristics	Examples
Pre-Contact	Pre-Contact	-in Hawaiian language -considered culturally "pure" because not influenced by foreigners -contains many different genres not found in western literary models	Kumulipo Hiiakaikapoliopele
Colonial	Contact - 1970ʻs (Hawaiian Renaissance)	-in Hawaiian language or English	Kamakau Poepoe Ulumahiehie Liliuokalani
Contemporary	1970ʻs - now	In Hawaiian, English, or Pidgin	Holt Hall Takehiro Burgess Westlake