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Indigenous Literatures from Micronesia / edited by Craig Santos Perez, Evelyn Flores, Emelihter Kihleng.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- New Oceania literary series
- The New Oceania Literary Series
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Dictionaries.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (384 pages) : 7 maps.
- Contained In:
- De Gruyter University Press Library.
- Place of Publication:
- Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, [2019]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
- text file PDF
- Summary:
- 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 the Pacific Ocean, Micronesia and its peoples have too often been rendered invisible and insignificant both in and out of academia. This long-awaited anthology of contemporary indigenous literature will reshape Micronesia's historical and literary landscape.Presenting over seventy authors and one hundred pieces, Indigenous Literatures from Micronesia features nine of the thirteen basic language groups, including Palauan, Chamorro, Chuukese, I-Kiribati, Kosraean, Marshallese, Nauruan, Pohnpeian, and Yapese. The volume editors, from Micronesia themselves, have selected representative works from throughout the region-from Palau in the west, to Kiribati in the east, to the global diaspora. They have reached back for historically groundbreaking work and scouted the present for some of the most cited and provocative of published pieces and for the most promising new authors. Richly diverse, the stories of Micronesia's resilient peoples are as vast as the sea and as deep as the Mariana Trench. Challenging centuries-old reductive representations, writers passionately explore seven complex themes: "Origins" explores creation, foundational, and ancestral stories; "Resistance" responds to colonialism and militarism; "Remembering" captures diverse memories and experiences; "Identities" articulates the nuances of culture; "Voyages" maps migration and diaspora; "Family" delves into interpersonal and community relationships; and "New Micronesia" gathers experimental, liminal, and cutting-edge voices.This anthology reflects a worldview unique to the islands of Micronesia, yet it also connects to broader issues facing Pacific Islanders and indigenous peoples throughout the world. It is essential reading for anyone interested in Pacific, indigenous, diasporic, postcolonial, and environmental studies and literatures.
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)
- ISBN:
- 9780824877385
- OCLC:
- 1099796843
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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