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Archipelagic American Studies
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Duke University Press
ISBN electronic:
978-0-8223-7320-9
Publication date:
2017
Book Chapter
“Shades of Paradise”: Craig Santos Perez’s Transpacific Voyages
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Published:May 2017
Craig Santos Perez’s work as a Chamorro teacher, scholar, poet, and activist provides a clear example of how archipelagic American studies encourages cultural specificity and yet works “nomadically” to connect with other peoples through a wide range of disciplines. His work is also characterized by its strategic repetitions of words, phrases, and places, often to indicate how buried Chamorro history has become by the colonial world system’s appropriative power. Focus is on Perez’s remarkable series of poems in his three volumes, from unincoporated territory [hacha] (2008), from unincorporated territory [saina] (2010), and from unincorporated territory[guma’] (2014). Written in English,...
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