Navigating CHamoru Poetry Indigeneity, Aesthetics, and Decolonization / Craig Santos Perez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Santos Perez, Craig, author.

Series:

Critical issues in indigenous studies.

Critical issues in indigenous studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Chamorro (Micronesian people)--Guam--Ethnic identity.

Chamorro (Micronesian people).

Chamorro poetry--Guam--History and criticism.

Chamorro poetry.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (pages) : illustrations, maps ; cm

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

University of Arizona Press, 2021. Tucson :

Summary:

"For the first time, Navigating CHamoru Poetry focuses on Indigenous CHamoru (Chamorro) poetry from the Pacific Island of Guåhan (Guam). In this book, poet and scholar Craig Santos Perez navigates the complex relationship between CHamoru poetry, cultural identity, decolonial politics, diasporic migrations, and native aesthetics"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Series Info

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

List of Illustrations

Preface: From Unincorporated Territory

Acknowledgments

Introduction. On Being Chamorro Guamanian CHamoru: Indigeneity, Aesthetics, and Decolonization

1. Taotao Tåno': Sacred Land, Banyan Tree Aesthetics, and CHamoru Ecopoetics

2. The CHamoru House of Story: Guma' Åcho' Latte and Na(rra)tive Architecture in the Poetry of Peter R. Onedera

3. The Flying Proa: Outrigger Aesthetics, Migration, and Diasporic Indigeneity in Lehua Taitano's A Bell Made of Stones

4. Singing Forward and Backward: Kåntan Chamorrita, CHamoru Intertextuality, and Spoken-Word Poetry

Conclusion. Prutehi yan Difendi: CHamoru Literature as Decolonial Activism

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index

About the Author.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8165-3550-7

OCLC:

1288513524