Navigating Chamoru Poetry - Indigeneity, Aesthetics, and Decolonization

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.

About the author

Craig Santos Perez is an Indigenous CHamoru scholar and poet from the Pacific Island of Guåhan (Guam). He is the author of five books of poetry and the co-editor of five anthologies. He is a professor in the English Department at the University of Hawai'i, Manoa.

Product details

• Authors: Craig Santos Perez
• Publisher: The University of Arizona Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2022
• EAN: 9780816542925
• ISBN: 978-0-8165-4292-5
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 231 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Series: Critical Issues in Indigenous; Critical Issues in Indigenous Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies