Kinalamten gi Pasifiku: Insights from Oceania Mother Tree An Islander's Voice

An Islander's Voice

the Jesuit priest who established the Catholic religion in the island of Guam in the late 1600s

From an idyllic village childhood to the horrors of the occupation during WWII and the shifting cultural and political landscape of an island transformed in the aftermath of war

school reports— to offer understanding for the narrator’s mother and mental illness

Kinalamten gi Pasifiku: Insights from Oceania Mother Tree An Islander's VoiceKinalamten gi Pasifiku: Insights from Oceania is an anthology of prose, poetry and artwork featuring 40 contributors from across Oceania, who offer a contemporary and bold snapshot of life in the Pacific. The writings in Kinalamten gi Pasifiku focus on modern perspectives in colonized Pacifica. Each work is a bonding between oceanic life and personal thought. In her Foreword to the anthology, Dr. Laura Torres Souder describes the collection as