Voices of fire: reweaving the literary lei of Pele and Hi'iaka

Stories of the volcano goddess Pele and her youngest sister Hiiaka, patron of hula, are most familiar as a form of literary colonialism - first translated by missionary descendants and others, then co-opted by Hollywood and the tourist industry.

But the Pele and Hiiaka literature published between the 1860s and 1930 carried coded political meaning for the Hawaiian people at a time of great upheaval.

This book restores it to its primary place in Hawaiian culture.