Indigenous Literatures from Micronesia / / ed. by Evelyn Flores, Emelihter Kihleng, Craig Santos Perez.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2019
• MitwirkendeR: Aguon, Baltazar,; Aguon, Julian,; Alonso, Maya,; Asang, Isebong M.,; Asang, Isebong,; Atalig Manibusan, Charissa Lynn,; Baza, Monica Dolores,; Bevacqua, Michael Lujan,; Borja, Joseph,; Borja-Quichocho-Calvo, Kisha,; Camacho, Jacob L.,; Camacho, Jacob,; Cepeda, Jeremy N. C.,; Chilton, Tutii,; Chilton, Tutii-Elbuchel I.,; Cruz-Smith, J.A. Dela,; Cushing, Nikkie de Jesus,; DeLisle, Christine Taitano,; Dediya, Ruby,; Dela Cruz-Smith, J. A.,; Diaz, Vicente M.,; Filibert, Canisius Tkel,; Filibert, Canisius,; Flores, Evelyn,; Furukawa, Jan,; Gaiyabu, Maria,; Guerrero, Victoria-Lola M. Leon,; Hattori, Anne Perez,; Hattori, Mary Therese Perez,; Hernandez, Marianna,; Hoppe-Cruz, Angela,; Howard, Chris Perez,; Howard, Josie,; Iriarte, Leonard Z.,; Itsimaera, Lucia,; Jetnil-Kijiner, Kathy,; Jetñil-Kijiner, Kathy,; Joab, Yolanda,; Kihleng, Emelihter,; Kim, Myjolynne,; Laguana, Ronald T.,; Laguana, Ronald,; Lauti, Alamanda Roland,; Lauti, Alamanda,; Leem, Selina Neirok,; Leon Guerrero, Victoria-Lola M.,; Lowe, Arielle Taitano,; Mangafel, John,; Manibusan, Charissa Lynn Atalig,; Mendiola, Clarissa,; Morei, Cita,; Muñoz, P.C.,; Muñoz, PC,; Naholowa‘a, Leiana San Agustin,; Naholowa’a, Leiana San Agustin,; Okada, Sandra Iseke,; Onedera, Peter R.,; Palomo, Tony,; Pat-Borja, Melvin Won,; Perez Hattori, Mary Therese,; Perez, C. T.,; Perez, Craig Santos,; Perez, Terry,; Quinene, Frederick B.,; Raatior, Vidalino Staley,; Ramarui, Hermana,; Ratite, Tereeao Teingiia,; Rhowunio’ng, Alex,; Salinas, Johanna,; Santos Perez, Craig,; Santos, Mark A.,; Sengebau, Valentine N.,; Seymour, Jelovea,; Sigrah, Lynnsey,; Songeni, Nedine F.,; Songeni, Nedine,; Sound-Kikku, Innocenta M.,; Taitano, Lehua M.,; Teaero, Teweiariki,; Teaiwa, Katerina,; Teaiwa, Teresia,; Tenorio, Stephen,; Tiwelfil, Dickson Dalph,; Ventura, Desiree Taimanglo,; Viernes, James Perez,; Villaverde, Rudolph E.,; Villaverde, Rudolph,; Yilibuw, Dolores,; de Jesus Cushing, Nikkie,
• HerausgeberIn: Flores, Evelyn,; Kihleng, Emelihter,; Perez, Craig Santos,
• TeilnehmendeR: Okada, Sandra Iseke,.
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: The New Oceania Literary Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (384 p.) :; 7 maps

For the first time, poetry, short stories, critical and creative essays, chants, and excerpts of plays by Indigenous Micronesian authors have been brought together to form a resounding—and distinctly Micronesian—voice. With over two thousand islands spread across almost three million square miles of...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Maps of Micronesia
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Garlanding
• Origins
• I Tinituhon/The Beginning
• Fu’una and Pontan
• Time
• Uchelel a Tekoi Chuab, Kotel Belau
• Chuab—Belau
• Merry Ancestors
• Nei Mwanganibuka/ The Legendary Fisherwoman
• To Swim with Eels
• I Have Seen Sirena Out at Sea/ Gua na hu li’i’ si Sirena
• Halom Tano’
• Nareau’s Return
• Ode to the Fisherman’s Hat/ Te bwara te taraai
• Return to the Sea
• Tinaitayon Hinanåo Såkman Saina/Prayer for Safe Journey
• Gutos i Finihu I Hinacha Hinanåo/Rite of First Voyage of the Sakman Saina
• Quipuha’s Sin
• Silent Warriors
• Fino’ Finakpo’/Final Words
• Manotohge Hit/We Stand
• Resistance
• Forefathers
• Lbolb/Wolf
• The Lord’s Prayer
• What Am I
• Excerpt from “Freedom”
• To Belau
• Belau Be Brave
• Nauru in 2001
• Tampering with Bible Translation in Yap
• “Local”
• Inside Out
• My Mother’s Bamboo Bracelets A Handful of Lessons on Saving the World
• The Mango Trees Already Know
• Juan Malo & the Tip of America’s Spear
• Juan Malo & Where America’s Day Begins
• The Storm
• Dance
• More than Just a Blue Passport
• My Island Is One Big American Footnote
• The Revolution Will Not Be Haolified
• Remembering
• From The Constitution of the Federated States of Micronesia, 1975
• History Project
• Thieves
• Guåhan
• From I Dos Amantes
• From An Ocean in a Cup
• An Ode to Our Unsung Heroes
• From An Island in Agony
• A New Invasion
• From Mariquita: A Tragedy of Guam
• From Cheffla gi i Manglo
• From Nasarinu
• Nauru Women Picket a Government-Sponsored Flight to London for the Stage Play Leonardo da Vinci, May 27, 1993
• Egade
• The First Woman in Parliament Ruby’s Story
• Ti Mamaigo Si Yu’us— God Never Sleeps
• Identities
• Sun Burns
• Crash
• Juan Malo & Da Real Chamoru
• My Blood
• Téétéén Kúen
• The Micronesian Question
• Micro-Eye-Class
• Kaki se (a coconut)
• Echukeison in Maikronisia
• Bomb the School System
• “Unfit”
• English Only Law Impact
• Language with an Attitude Palauan Identity with an English Accent
• Culture for Sale
• In Search of What Matters . . .
• Kul
• FestPac neni
• Kao siña hao fumino’ Chamoru?
• Memory Revising, As My Diasporic Queer Self
• Grass
• English Major
• Voyages
• Raiarecharmoracherchar
• What Grandma Sinsilmam Knew
• Flying to Makiki Street
• Tomorrow
• The Monkey Gate
• Moon Sickness, Green Cards, and the Taro Patch
• Bare-Breasted Woman
• Homes of Micronesia
• The Cry of Oceania
• We Are Human at the Wrong Place at the Wrong Time
• Imbibing Native DNA at a Pacific Science Meeting in Australia
• A Journey of CHamoru Self-Discovery
• The Five Stages of Being Micronesian in Guam
• Family
• My Urohs
• The Tree
• Mechikung
• Rubak
• Red Shoes
• Sky Cathedral
• Ngedeloch
• Food Thoughts
• The Boys
• Auntie Lola’s Champion Chalakiles
• What urohs say
• Beloved Sumay
• Fino’ Gualåffon/Moonlight Talk
• Portrait of Grandmother Eating Mango
• Hineksa Anonymous
• I am from . . .
• A New Micronesia
• Pohnpei Outer Space
• Development
• Map Gazing
• Look at It This Way
• I could be Miss Guam Tourism
• Well, we’re all eating chå’guan now
• My life is a poetry reading
• Hiking
• The floating world
• I Will Drink the Rain (For Toma)
• Flip Flops
• Black Coral
• On the Occasion of the Quarter Century
• Archery
• Tidepools
• Afterword
• About the Contributors