New CHamoru Literature / / ed. by Craig Santos Perez.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English
• MitwirkendeR: Anderson, Zachary FR,; Anderson, Zachary Fr,; Arnold, Rob,; Camacho, Jacob L.,; Camacho, Jacob,; Chargualaf Taimanglo, Tanya,; Crisostomo, Randizia,; Delgado, Francisco,; Evans, Humlåo,; Flores, Evelyn,; Hattori, Mary Therese Perez,; Hinestrosa, Dominique Natasha,; Howard, Chris Perez,; Munoz, Pc,; Muñoz, PC,; Nicolas, Ha’åni Lucia Falo San,; Onedera, Peter R.,; Pascua, Jay Baza,; Perez Hattori, Mary Therese,; Perez Howard, Chris,; Perez, Teresita L.,; Perez, Teresita Lourdes,; Romero, Yasmine,; Sablan, Esther,; Salinas, Johanna,; San Nicolas, Ha’åni Lucia Falo,; Tydingco-Choi, Kayle,
• HerausgeberIn: Perez, Craig Santos,
• Place / Publishing House: Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Mānoa ; 41
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (120 p.)

New CHamoru Literature highlights an intergenerational selection of eighteen emerging, mid-career, and established CHamoru authors, including an extended feature on master storyteller Peter R. Onedera. As Onedera explains in his essay, “The Dilemma of an Official Word,” Chamorro, Chamoru, CHamoru are different spellings of the same “description used in reference to Guam’s indigenous people and those in the Marianas archipelago for thousands of years.” Within the pages of this rich collection, you will find diverse genres, including poetry, chant, fiction, creative nonfiction, and playwriting. The pieces are composed predominantly in English; however, the opening chant is in the CHamoru language (with translation by the author), other pieces are multilingual, and one poem is composed in CHamoru creole English. The themes range from genealogy to identity, colonialism to cultural revitalization, ecological connection to environmental injustice, love to sexual abuse, and belonging to diaspora. This anthology will introduce readers to the Mariana archipelago and the vibrancy of CHamoru literature, culture, histories, migrations, politics, memories, traumas, and dreams.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Editor’s Introduction -- Hami Hu Ma’hasso Hamyo -- My First Time Alone in Ritidian’s Cave -- Notes from My Backyard -- Maga’leena -- The thing about water -- Songs of the South -- Aunty’s Candle -- The Sorrowful Mysteries -- Lutu -- Ato’ Matai -- dev/oceans -- Return to Guinaiya -- Letter to Le Chåud -- Futures Worth Hanging Onto -- said/meant -- Fifteen Forty-Two -- Håfa na klasen pålao’an hao?: Rosaline’s Story of Womanhood -- Skokomish Tribe: Bear Witness Testimony—Waking My Indigenous Heart -- The Rapture in Reverse -- Juanit -- The Dilemma of an Official Word -- Da CHåt -- Respetu Guatu Gi I Manmofo’na: Respect to the Ancestors -- An Ipao Summer -- About the Contributors