Table of Contents:
  • Preface ; About Spelling and Capitalization ; Myths At First Sight ; Paradise of the Pacific? Nineteenth-Century Prototypes in American Literature ; Hawaii's Pastoral: From Mele Hula to the Childhood Idyll ; Hawaii's Complex Idyll: All I Asking for Is My Body and Waimea Summer ; Hawaii's Heroic Literature: ""Our People, Our History"" ; Hawaii's Local Literary Tradition: ""To Speak of Things So Real"" ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index.