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ABSTRACT
Noʻukahauʻoli Revilla is a poet, performer, scholar and lecturer at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. From 2013 to 2015 she served as poetry editor to the Hawaiʻi Review, producing the award-winning “Muliwai” issue (2015); in the same year she organized the Aloha ʻĀina Zine Workshop in support of the protestors opposing the construction of the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) atop Mauna Kea on Hawaiʻi Island. This conversation took place in Mānoa in March 2015, when Revilla kindly agreed to be interviewed about her first poetry chapbook Say Throne (2011). She discusses themes of mana wahine (women‘s power, or spiritual authority), ʻohana (family) and moʻo (lizard/story/succession) that recur in her writing.
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Notes
1. For a detailed explanation of Papakū Makawalu, see the lectures by P. Kanakaʻole Kanahele (Citation2009a, Citation2009b) presented by the Kohala Centre, particularly Part 2.
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Emma Scanlan
Emma Scanlan co-organized the conference “Pacific Waves: Reverberations from Oceania” at the University of Sussex in 2015, from which this special issue of the Journal of Postcolonial Writing arises. This research was conducted as part of her Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded doctorate, undertaken at the University of Sussex. She currently teaches English literature at Canterbury Christ Church University.