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. --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
Display software: ArchTracker © Malgosia Askanas, 2000-2005