Chamorro WWII Romances: Combating Erasure with Tales of Survival and Vitality

This paper begins by briefly explaining Guam’s colonial history and present-day situation as a neocolonial limbo, then offers a succinct account of some of Guam’s most renowned literary authors, and finally focuses on the analysis of two WWII romances written by Chamorro writers: Conquered by Paula...

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Autor: Fernández Rodríguez, Carolina|||0000-0001-9081-3096
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Oviedo (UNIOVI)
Repositorio:RUO. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Oviedo
Idioma:inglés
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Guam
Spanish, Japanese and US Imperialism
World War II
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spelling Chamorro WWII Romances: Combating Erasure with Tales of Survival and VitalityFernández Rodríguez, Carolina|||0000-0001-9081-3096Chamorro romancesGuamSpanish, Japanese and US ImperialismWorld War IIThis paper begins by briefly explaining Guam’s colonial history and present-day situation as a neocolonial limbo, then offers a succinct account of some of Guam’s most renowned literary authors, and finally focuses on the analysis of two WWII romances written by Chamorro writers: Conquered by Paula Quinene (2016) and A Mansion on the Moon by Cathy Sablan Gault (2015). Its aim is to study the ways in which those two novels depart from mainstream romances. Special attention will be given to the reconfiguration of the romance genre through the de-exoticization of the island setting, the historicizing and politicization of Guam, the inscription of Chamorro language and culture, and the vindication of cultural appropriation and syncretism. Ultimately, the paper argues that Chamorro popular literature can effectively serve as a form of literary activism against Spanish, Japanese and US imperialism, even if it does so in complex and contested ways. The paper also attempts to palliate the erasure that Chamorro literature has systematically endured in Academia, given that US Literary Studies rarely devote any attention to the literature produced in the US Pacific territories, while Post-colonial Studies often fail to focus on countries that are yet to be decolonized.Project “The politics, aesthetics and marketing of literary formulae in popular women’s fiction:History, Exoticism and Romance,” supported by AEI/FEDER, UE (FFI2016-75130-P)The International Association for the Study of Popular Romance20192019-07-23journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501NAhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_be7fb7dd8ff6fe43info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://hdl.handle.net/10651/51698reponame:RUO. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Oviedoinstname:Universidad de Oviedo (UNIOVI)Inglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:digibuo.uniovi.es:10651/516982026-06-07T06:38:51Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Chamorro WWII Romances: Combating Erasure with Tales of Survival and Vitality
title Chamorro WWII Romances: Combating Erasure with Tales of Survival and Vitality
spellingShingle Chamorro WWII Romances: Combating Erasure with Tales of Survival and Vitality
Fernández Rodríguez, Carolina|||0000-0001-9081-3096
Chamorro romances
Guam
Spanish, Japanese and US Imperialism
World War II
title_short Chamorro WWII Romances: Combating Erasure with Tales of Survival and Vitality
title_full Chamorro WWII Romances: Combating Erasure with Tales of Survival and Vitality
title_fullStr Chamorro WWII Romances: Combating Erasure with Tales of Survival and Vitality
title_full_unstemmed Chamorro WWII Romances: Combating Erasure with Tales of Survival and Vitality
title_sort Chamorro WWII Romances: Combating Erasure with Tales of Survival and Vitality
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Fernández Rodríguez, Carolina|||0000-0001-9081-3096
author Fernández Rodríguez, Carolina|||0000-0001-9081-3096
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Chamorro romances
Guam
Spanish, Japanese and US Imperialism
World War II
topic Chamorro romances
Guam
Spanish, Japanese and US Imperialism
World War II
description This paper begins by briefly explaining Guam’s colonial history and present-day situation as a neocolonial limbo, then offers a succinct account of some of Guam’s most renowned literary authors, and finally focuses on the analysis of two WWII romances written by Chamorro writers: Conquered by Paula Quinene (2016) and A Mansion on the Moon by Cathy Sablan Gault (2015). Its aim is to study the ways in which those two novels depart from mainstream romances. Special attention will be given to the reconfiguration of the romance genre through the de-exoticization of the island setting, the historicizing and politicization of Guam, the inscription of Chamorro language and culture, and the vindication of cultural appropriation and syncretism. Ultimately, the paper argues that Chamorro popular literature can effectively serve as a form of literary activism against Spanish, Japanese and US imperialism, even if it does so in complex and contested ways. The paper also attempts to palliate the erasure that Chamorro literature has systematically endured in Academia, given that US Literary Studies rarely devote any attention to the literature produced in the US Pacific territories, while Post-colonial Studies often fail to focus on countries that are yet to be decolonized.
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