식민의 형이상학: 하와이 ‘태평양 오리엔탈리즘’ 비판 (Metaphysics of Colonialism: A Critique of Pacific Orientalism)

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This paper attempts to elucidate the complex historical developments of the so-called “metaphysics of colonialism,” aptly expressed in the ideology of “Pacific orientalism” concerning the tragic destiny of Hawaiian archipelago. In order to analyze the ups and downs of conceptual signification of Hawaiian “native sovereignty,” I explore the textual interpretation of Hanunani-Kay Trask’s nonfiction masterpiece, From a Native Daughter, in terms of its postcolonial critique of racialist neo-colonialism and the rhetorical delineation of native notion of cosmic familial connection. As a leading proponent of indigenous sovereignty of Hawaiian native islanders, Trask severely criticizes the deep-rooted self-image of the European-American white colonizers who like to justify their universality by subjugating and misrepresenting the native civilization as feudalism. She also pinpoints the absurd racialist assumption and the concomitant mystification of whites’ blood purity in the enlighten disciplines of the Western human sciences. Trask’s idea of Hawaiian sovereignty contains the two controversial aspects: the exclusive claim of native islanders over the forfeited land and the denial of immigrants’s right of being a host of Hawaiian archipelago. For her, sovereignty means the independence from the US, not a legal citizenship as a minority. Ironically, however, her claim of native’s exclusive land ownership and independence depends entirely on the good will of the US federal government and the conscientious international recognition. In this sense, Trask’s native sovereignty is, for all its vehemence and bitter animosity towards the white colonialism and immigrant ideology, at once a narrative of resistance and a rhetoric of surrender.

영어초록

This paper attempts to elucidate the complex historical developments of the so-called “metaphysics of colonialism,” aptly expressed in the ideology of “Pacific orientalism” concerning the tragic destiny of Hawaiian archipelago. In order to analyze the ups and downs of conceptual signification of Hawaiian “native sovereignty,” I explore the textual interpretation of Hanunani-Kay Trask’s nonfiction masterpiece, From a Native Daughter, in terms of its postcolonial critique of racialist neo-colonialism and the rhetorical delineation of native notion of cosmic familial connection. As a leading proponent of indigenous sovereignty of Hawaiian native islanders, Trask severely criticizes the deep-rooted self-image of the European-American white colonizers who like to justify their universality by subjugating and misrepresenting the native civilization as feudalism. She also pinpoints the absurd racialist assumption and the concomitant mystification of whites’ blood purity in the enlighten disciplines of the Western human sciences. Trask’s idea of Hawaiian sovereignty contains the two controversial aspects: the exclusive claim of native islanders over the forfeited land and the denial of immigrants’s right of being a host of Hawaiian archipelago. For her, sovereignty means the independence from the US, not a legal citizenship as a minority. Ironically, however, her claim of native’s exclusive land ownership and independence depends entirely on the good will of the US federal government and the conscientious international recognition. In this sense, Trask’s native sovereignty is, for all its vehemence and bitter animosity towards the white colonialism and immigrant ideology, at once a narrative of resistance and a rhetoric of surrender.

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