Chloe Dalby ‘12

“Japanese Obake in Hawai’i”

Chloe Dalby received the 2012 Shansi Prize for her Comparative Literature capstone paper. Taking Japanese literary and artistic treatments of the supernatural and the ‘weird’ as her starting point, Chloe traces their migration to modern Hawaiian storytelling and literature. In the process she analyzes similarities between the native Hawaiian religious tradition and Japan’s Buddhist Shinto religion. She was nominated by Professor Suzanne Gay.