Discuss the author’s use of prostitution as a metaphor for Hawaii.
What will be an ideal response?
The author uses prostitution to convey the degradation of Hawaiian culture and people by corporate tourism.Hawaii is the Western image of the native “female” in her magical allure. The author uses prostitution to refer to the entire institution which defines a woman as an object of degraded and victimized sexual value for use and exchange through the medium of money.Hawaii, like a lovely woman, is there for the taking. For example, hula dancers wear clown-like make-up, don costumes from a mix of Polynesian cultures, and behave in a manner that is smutty and salacious rather than powerfully erotic. The distance between the smutty and the erotic is precisely the distance between Western culture and Hawaiian culture.
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What will be an ideal response?
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