The Chamorro Creation Story, Guam Land Struggles, and Contemporary Poetry

IF 0.2 4区 文学 N/A LITERATURE
Craig Santos Perez
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Abstract:This essay focuses on the creation story of the Indigenous Chamorro people from the western Pacific Island of Guam. The essay presents and analyzes the deeper meaning of the story of Puntan and Fu'una as they birth the island of Guam and the Chamorro people. Moreover, it maps the history of Catholic missionization that displaced and replaced the Chamorro creation story. The essay covers the related issue of how colonization removed Chamorros from their ancestral lands and appropriated these lands for imperial, military, tourism, and urban development. Then it highlights the decades-long struggle of Chamorro activists to reclaim the land. Lastly, it turns to contemporary Chamorro poetry to illustrate how authors have revitalized and retold the story of Puntan and Fu'una to critique and protest the degradation of Chamorro lands and to advocate for the protection and return of the land.
查莫罗的创作故事、关岛的土地斗争与当代诗歌
摘要:本文主要讲述了西太平洋关岛土著查莫罗人的创造故事。本文介绍并分析了Puntan和Fu'una的故事的深层含义,因为他们诞生了关岛和查莫罗人。此外,它还描绘了天主教传教的历史,取代了查莫罗人的创世故事。这篇文章涵盖了殖民如何将查莫罗人从他们祖先的土地上移走,并将这些土地用于帝国、军事、旅游和城市发展的相关问题。然后,它突出了查莫罗活动家数十年来为收回土地而进行的斗争。最后,本文将转向当代查莫罗诗歌,以说明作者如何重新振兴和讲述Puntan和Fu’una的故事,以批评和抗议查莫罗土地的退化,并倡导保护和归还土地。
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期刊介绍: A respected forum since 1962 for peer-reviewed work in English literary studies, English Language Notes - ELN - has undergone an extensive makeover as a semiannual journal devoted exclusively to special topics in all fields of literary and cultural studies. ELN is dedicated to interdisciplinary and collaborative work among literary scholarship and fields as disparate as theology, fine arts, history, geography, philosophy, and science. The new journal provides a unique forum for cutting-edge debate and exchange among university-affiliated and independent scholars, artists of all kinds, and academic as well as cultural institutions. As our diverse group of contributors demonstrates, ELN reaches across national and international boundaries.
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