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Author | : Teresita Perez |
Publisher | : University of Guam Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019-11-14 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781935198338 |
CHamoru Legends retells twelve CHamoru legends and features personal reflections from author Teresita Lourdes Perez, unique illustrations of each legend by Guam artists, and versions of the legends in the CHamoru language by Maria Ana Tenorio Rivera. The book includes CHamoru classics like the story of the siblings who created the universe; the two lovers who were pushed to the edge of a cliff because their union was forbidden; and the tale of the son who leapt an island away to escape his jealous father. CHamoru Legends is the 2020 Independent Publisher Book Awards Bronze Medal recipient for Best Regional Fiction for Australia/New Zealand/Pacific Rim. It is a reversible book featuring the legends in English on one side and in CHamoru on the other. Through multiple layers of interpretation, the book weaves together strips of wisdom and cultural lessons like the leaves used to shape the CHamoru guåfak, or mat, upon which the earliest CHamoru storytellers sat sharing their versions of these timeless tales.
Author | : Mavis Warner Van Peenen |
Publisher | : Richard Flores Taitano Micronesian Area Research Center |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Chamorro (Micronesian people) |
ISBN | : 9780980033120 |
"Van Peenen's little book is one of the few records of Chamorro oral tradition and is therefore an invaluable source for cultural memory as well as the study of how Chamorro identity changed from centuries of cultural submergence, and clearly bears the marks of cultural domination. . . . Despite her politically incorrect diversions, Van Peenen has done a great service for Chamorro culture and identity." --from the Introduction by John A. Peterson Text in English and Spanish
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Publisher | : Bess Press |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Chamorro (Micronesian people) |
ISBN | : 9781573061018 |
Offering rare insight to Chamorro and Carolinian cultures, this book contains legends, poems, folklore, history, traditions, rhymes and riddles, and scary stories collected from the elders and the youth of the Marianas Islands.
Author | : Craig Santos Perez |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2022-01-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0816535507 |
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.
Author | : Tanya Chargualaf Taimanglo |
Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2010-08-02 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1491867930 |
Sirena is a young Chamorro girl who loves nature. She ignores her chores as usual to go swimming in the sparkling river, at a time in Guam's history when all is pristine. Her mother utters a curse that will forever change Sirena's life, unless her godmother can help. Based on a universal “tail” of the mystery and origin of mermaids, Sirena: A Mermaid Legend from Guam, is a retelling of a classic for the next generation of Chamorro children and all to dive into.
Author | : Sandra Chung |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2020-07-25 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780578718224 |
A reference grammar of the Chamorro language.
Author | : Craig Santos Perez |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 118 |
Release | : 2023-08-31 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0824898435 |
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.
Author | : R.M.W. Dixon |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2018-01-13 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1476630704 |
Living in a reed hut on Taveuni--the "garden isle" of Fiji--the author studied the native language and carefully observed their traditions until he was accepted as a (somewhat unusual) member of the village. Despite five cyclones the summer of 1985, daily life was idyllic. Cannibalism has been abandoned, reluctantly, at the behest of the new Christian God. But the old religion survived beneath the facade and priests danced naked on the beach beneath the full moon. The village pulsated with factions and feuds, resolved by the stern but benevolent chief, whose word was law. Legends told of a princess born as a bird, who was killed and thus became a comely maiden--but the murderer had to be cooked and eaten.
Author | : Gerard Aflague |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 2020-02-29 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780692126691 |
This book preserves a legacy of CHamoru culture and cuisine of the Mariånas islands of Guam, Rota, Tinian, and Saipan from the perspectives of CHamoru authors Gerard and Mary Aflague. The Aflagues share various aspects of the CHamoru culture and over 100 recipes that reflect the islands' CHamoru cuisine. This book is beautifully designed in the Aflague's design style and is vivid in its photography of the islands and the many dishes that they have prepared.
Author | : Paul Carano |
Publisher | : Tuttle Publishing |
Total Pages | : 510 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : History |
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