What keeps us here?
Islands in an ocean.
What makes us leave?
Islands in an ocean.
What calls us back?
Islands in an ocean.
—Teresia Teaiwa,
from “No One Is an Island”
Week 11 11/1/21 - Micronesia
NO ZOOM MONDAY - please read play and poetry
Zoom Class Discussion Wednesday 11/3/21 at 1:30pm
Reading: "Last Virgin in Paradise: a Serious Comedy" by Vilsoni Hereniko and Teresia Teaiwa
Reading: article "Last Virgin in Paradise" by Vilsoni Hereniko and Teresia Teaiwa
Reading: Teaiwa "bikinis and other s/pacific n/oceans"
Readings: Indigenous Literatures from Micronesia - selected poems
Forum post due Sunday 11/7/21
NO ZOOM MONDAY - please read play and poetry
Zoom Class Discussion Wednesday 11/3/21 at 1:30pm
Reading: "Last Virgin in Paradise: a Serious Comedy" by Vilsoni Hereniko and Teresia Teaiwa
Reading: article "Last Virgin in Paradise" by Vilsoni Hereniko and Teresia Teaiwa
Reading: Teaiwa "bikinis and other s/pacific n/oceans"
Readings: Indigenous Literatures from Micronesia - selected poems
Forum post due Sunday 11/7/21
Readings:
"Last Virgin in Paradise: a Serious Comedy" by Vilsoni Hereniko and Teresia Teaiwa
When reading this play, consider the following:
How do the writers use stereotypes? Why do you think they choose humor to engage the issues? How do some characters resist heteropatriarchal, colonial, capitalist expectations?
When reading this play, consider the following:
How do the writers use stereotypes? Why do you think they choose humor to engage the issues? How do some characters resist heteropatriarchal, colonial, capitalist expectations?
article "Last Virgin in Paradise" by Vilsoni Hereniko and Teresia Teaiwa
This article does a great job of sharing the author intentions and context for the setting of the play
This article does a great job of sharing the author intentions and context for the setting of the play
Teaiwa "bikinis and other s/pacific n/oceans"
Indigenous Literatures from Micronesia
Please read through poems from Emelighter Kihleng "My Urohs" (275, 299) and Kisha Borja-Quichocho Calvo (284-324)
and whatever calls to you. This collection is a wonderful compilation of important current voices.
full text also available free online through UH Mānoa libraries:
https://uhawaii-manoa.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=cdi_proquest_ebookcentral_EBC6356524&context=PC&vid=01UHAWAII_MANOA:MANOA&lang=en&search_scope=DN_and_CI&adaptor=Primo%20Central&tab=Everything&query=any,contains,my%20urohs
Please read through poems from Emelighter Kihleng "My Urohs" (275, 299) and Kisha Borja-Quichocho Calvo (284-324)
and whatever calls to you. This collection is a wonderful compilation of important current voices.
full text also available free online through UH Mānoa libraries:
https://uhawaii-manoa.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=cdi_proquest_ebookcentral_EBC6356524&context=PC&vid=01UHAWAII_MANOA:MANOA&lang=en&search_scope=DN_and_CI&adaptor=Primo%20Central&tab=Everything&query=any,contains,my%20urohs
Zoom Class Discussion
Bodies and Paradise
Small group discussion questions:
- What role does the female body play in s/pacific n/oceans?
- How does the beauty of the female form and the clothing cover up the atrocities?
- Think about how the aesthetics and production values of Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner’s video poem affect the viewer. It is powerful indeed. And yet, the aesthetic beauty also may distract, defer, even numb viewers from the horrors.
Small group discussion questions:
- What role does the female body play in s/pacific n/oceans?
- How does the beauty of the female form and the clothing cover up the atrocities?
- Think about how the aesthetics and production values of Kathy Jetnil-Kijiner’s video poem affect the viewer. It is powerful indeed. And yet, the aesthetic beauty also may distract, defer, even numb viewers from the horrors.