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. This rich collection includes diverse genres, including poetry, chant, fiction, creative nonfiction, and playwriting.
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.

Contributor: Craig Santos Perez (Edited by), Esther Sablan (Contributions by), Ha’åni Lucia Falo San Nicolas (Contributions by), Randizia Crisostomo (Contributions by), Johanna Salinas (Contributions by), Francisco Delgado (Contributions by), Dominique Natasha Hinestrosa (Contributions by), Zachary FR Anderson (Contributions by), PC Muñoz (Contributions by), Chris Perez Howard (Contributions by), Peter R. Onedera (Contributions by), Jay Baza Pascua (Contributions by), Jacob Camacho (Contributions by), Teresita Lourdes Perez (Contributions by), Yasmine Romero (Contributions by), Evelyn Flores (Contributions by), Humlåo Evans (Contributions by), Mary Therese Perez Hattori (Contributions by), Rob Arnold (Contributions by)

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