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Date: 	Fri, 30 Jan 1998 14:53:54 -1000
From: Ida Yoshinaga <ida-AT-hawaii.edu>
Subject: 2/21 Reading by Chamorro Creative Writers about U.S. Colonialism, Chamorro Culture, etc. (fwd)


**please forward**



The Hawai'i Literary Arts Council
Bookcellar Reading Series Invites You to

An Evening with Chamorro Creative Writers
from Guam & the Mariana Islands

Saturday, February 21
7:30-9 p.m.
Coffee Time Cafe
3506 Wai'alae Avenue

KEITH LUJON CAMACHO
ANNE PEREZ HATTORI
LEE PEREZ

Listen to these native writers share their poetry and short stories on
U.S. colonialism, Chamorro culture, indigenous and imported spirituality,
the "value" of land, and resistance to the American military.

KEITH LUJON KAMACHO is a Chamorro from the Mariana Islands.  His family
resides in the village of Yigo, Guam.  He received his undergraduate
degree in literature at the University of Guam, and currently attends the
University of Hawai'i at Manoa's graduate program in Pacific Islands
Studies.

ANNE PEREZ HATTORI is an indigenous Chamorro from Guam and the Mariana
Islands. She currently studies in the PhD program in Pacific history at
the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, having received her MA in Pacific
Islands Studies from the same institution.  Upon graduation, Anne will
return home in hopes of teaching at the University of Guam.

LEE PEREZ, a Chamorro from Guam, writes poetry and short stories.


Free and oepn to the public. Sponsored by the Hawai'i Literary Arts
Council, partially funded by the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts. 
For more information, call Ida at 956-3641.





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