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Century of Dreams: New writing from the Philippines

Guest-edited by Eric Gamalinda and Alfred A. Yuson

This issue features fiction, poetry, and essays from the Philippines as well as new work from the U.S. and throughout the Pacific. The publication of this volume coincides with the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Philippine Revolution (1898), and the feature illuminates the special relationship between America and the Philippine archipelago, with its 7,000 islands and 800 languages. Among the outstanding Filipino writers are Rowena Torrevillas, Bino A. Realuyo, Jose Y. Dalisay Jr., Cirilo F. Bautista, Marjorie M. Evasco, Simeon P. Dumdum Jr., Gemino H. Abad, Lakambini A. Sitoy, Michelle Cruz Skinner, Luis H. Francia, Eric Gamalinda, and Alfred A. Yuson. The US writing includes fiction by Barry Lopez, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Josip Novakovich, and Gordon Lish; poetry by Jane Hirshfield, Alberto Rios, Robert Dana, and Arthur Sze; and an essay by Donald Morrill. And, as always, there are insightful reviews of current books, such as one on a John Muir omnibus.

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Homeland: New writing from Aotearoa/New Zealand

Guest-edited by Reina Whaitiri and Robert Sullivan

In his five-volume anthology of Maori literature, Te Ao Marama, Witi Ihimaera calls the 1990s the flowering of literature written by Maori people. “We may have come to a crossroads,” he writes, “of a literature of a past and a literature of a present and future.” MANOA is pleased to showcase some of the work from this new flowering in Homeland. The writing published here was gathered by guest editors Reina Whaitiri and Robert Sullivan, and includes some of New Zealand’s best-known Maori authors Patricia Grace, Hone Tuwhare, Alan Duff, and Ihimaera—as well as emerging and less well known writers. Each of the pieces is an energetic exploration of homeland. Perceptions of home are also explored in essays by Susan Vreeland and David Tager, and in a symposium titled “Intimate Dwellings.” Other works in this collection include two previously untranslated stories by Nobel Prize author Yasunari Kawabata; an interview with Hugh Moorhead on his fifty-year search for the meaning of life; and, as always, outstanding North American fiction, poetry, and reviews. The art portfolio consists of photography by Hawai‘i artists Anne Kapulani Landgraf and Mark Hamasaki, known collectively as Piliamo‘o. Their work documents the restoration of the streams in Waiahole Valley on the island of O‘ahu. This too is an expression of homeland.

All of these issues are available online via JSTOR.

SEEING THE INVISIBLE (Winter 1996, Volume 8:2)
Stories from Korea, written by women since the country’s democratization in the 1980s, guest-edited by Bruce Fulton

SUMMER 1996 (Volume 8:1)
New stories and poems from the Pacific Coast of South America; poetry guest-edited by James Hoggard

WINTER 1995 (Volume 7:2)
New writing from Viet Nam guest-edited by Nguyen Nguyet Cam and Kevin Bowen

SUMMER 1995 (Volume 7:1)
Fiction from Japan guest-edited by Leza Lowitz

WINTER 1994 (Volume 6:2)
Fiction, poetry, native folk tales, and essays from the Russian Far East guest-edited by Adele Barker

SUMMER 1994 (Volume 6:1)
Post-Tiananmen Square poetry from the People’s Republic of China guest-edited by Arthur Sze

WINTER 1993 (Volume 5:2)
Fiction, poetry, and memoirs from Australia guest-edited by Christina Thompson

SUMMER 1993 (Volume 5:1, out of print)
Stories, plays, poem, essays, and interviews from the contemporary Pacific Islands guest-edited by Vilsoni Hereniko

FALL 1992 (Volume 4:2)
Fiction and poetry from Mexico guest-edited by Hernan Lara Zavala and Darlaine Mahealani Dudoit

SPRING 1992 (Volume 4:1)

Fiction and poetry from the Philippines guest-edited by Alfred A. Yuson

FALL 1991 (Volume 3:2)
Fiction by women from Japan guest-edited by Masao Miyoshi

SPRING 1991 (Volume 3:1)
Fiction and poetry from Indonesia guest-edited by John McGlynn

FALL 1990 (Volume 2:2)
Fiction from Korea guest-edited by Kim Uchang

SPRING 1990 (Volume 2:1)
Fiction, poetry, and oral narratives from Papua New Guinea guest-edited by David Roskies and Darlaine Mahealani Dudoit

SPRING-FALL 1989 (Volume 1:1-2)
Fiction from the People’s Republic of China guest-edited by Howard Goldblatt