Professor of English Stanley Orr published “” in the September 2015 issue of , the preeminent American studies journal.
Orr argues that the Â鶹´«Ã½ Five-O television script “Strangers in Our Own Land,” (1968) written by Samoan American dramatist John Kneubuhl, is a pivotal text that exemplifies the thematic unity of the playwright’s literary works. Together with Kneubuhl’s other small-screen dramas, “Strangers in Our Own Land” stands along side the playwright’s masterful works representing diverse Oceanic cultural traditions.
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Orr is professor of and chair of the faculty senate at the UH West Oʻahu. He teaches courses in literature, film studies and cultural studies.
Orr is co-editor for a textbook entitled The Pearson Custom Library: Introduction to Literature (2006; revised edition 2008) and has published essays in Jouvert: A Journal of Postcolonial Studies, Literature/Film Quarterly, Paradoxa: Studies in World Literary Genres and Post-Script: Essays in Film and the Humanities.
—By Julie Funasaki Yuen