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Brown Bag Biography with Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl and Jackie Pualani Johnson

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The Center for Biographical Research presents: / “John Kneubuhl: A Portal to Oceanic Modernism”/ Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl, Writer, and Jackie Pualani Johnson, Professor Emerita, University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo / A gifted biracial child born in American Sāmoa in 1920, John Alexander Kneubuhl became a pioneer in creating a Pacific Island Theatre movement. His plays were informed by the oral traditions of Oceanic culture and the postmodern theater traditions of western culture. He also became a highly successful television writer in the early years of the industry and subsequently an educator who fought for bilingual, bicultural education in American Sāmoa. Throughout his life, he struggled to reconcile his own bicultural heritage, to free himself from internalized racism, and to rectify the long reaching effects of colonization in the Pacific. / Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl is a Honolulu writer and has received the Elliot Cades Award for Literature and the Hawaiʻi Award for Literature. Jackie Pualani Johnson is retired from the Performing Arts Department at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo, where she worked with John Kneubuhl in the late 1990s when he taught, directed a play from the American canon, and premiered his original work. / Cosponsored by Hamilton Library, Conflict and Peace Specialist, Hui ʻĀina Pilipili: Native Hawaiian Initiative, the School of Communication & Information, the School of Cinematic Arts, and the Departments of American Studies, Anthropology, English, Ethnic Studies, Political Science, and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies / Thursday, November 14 / Kuykendall 410 / 12PM to 1:15PM HST

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