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Here Comes "Kalakana": King Kalakaua's Visit to Portugal as Seen by the Portuguese Press
- Biography
- University of Hawai'i Press
- Volume 7, Number 1, Winter 1984
- pp. 74-90
- 10.1353/bio.2010.0718
- Article
- Additional Information
This article shows how the Portuguese press used King 'Kalakana's' (as his name was commonly spelled then) stay in Lisbon in 1881 to launch a humorous but scathing attack on national mores by means of unfavorably comparing their backwardness with the supposedly 'savage' nature of the visiting monarch.