Navigating Chamoru Poetry: Indigeneity, Aesthetics, and Decolonization

by Craig Santos Pérez

Book Overview

Navigating CHamoru Poetry focuses on Indigenous CHamoru (Chamorro) poetry from the Pacific Island of Gu?han (Guam). Poet and scholar Craig Santos Perez brings critical attention to a diverse and intergenerational collection of CHamoru poetry and scholarship. Throughout this book, Perez develops an Indigenous literary methodology called "wayreading" to navigate the complex relationship between CHamoru poetry, cultural identity, decolonial politics,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816535507
• ISBN13: 9780816535507
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"