The March 2009 issue of the University of Hawai‘i magazine Mālamalama contains a profile of the history of Mānoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing. It also offers two web extras: a slideshow of some of its cover designs and an audio interview with Mānoa editor Frank Stewart.

Mānoa passed two milestones in 2008: completing its 20th year of publishing and making its debut in the JSTOR online archive.

Visit Mānoa’s 20th Anniversary blog for a another brief history of its founding and a few highlights of its literary achievements over the years.

Every published volume of Mānoa is now available online. Since 2000, current issues have been appearing in Project MUSE (subscription required). In 2008, all prior volumes made their digital debut in JSTOR (subscription required). The JSTOR moving wall is 3 years. In other words, newer volumes will be added to the JSTOR archive 3 years after they first appear in print.

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Voices from Okinawa: Featuring Three Plays by Jon Shirota

Edited by Frank Stewart and Katsunori Yamazato

VOICES FROM OKINAWA features through literature the rich and remarkable culture of Japan’s southernmost islands. In this landmark publication—the first literary anthology showcasing Okinawan Americans—Okinawan voices are heard in plays, essays, and interviews. Through the beauty, humor, and heartbreak in Jon Shirota’s award-winning plays, readers will discover the exuberance and excellence of Okinawan American literature. And in personal essays and interviews, the compelling life stories are told of June Hiroko Arakawa, Philip K. Ige, Mitsugu Sakihara, and Seiyei Wakukawa. The distinctive cultural perspectives and literary excellence of VOICES FROM OKINAWA show that American literature is more inclusive, complex, and multilayered than we have imagined.

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Poem, i
Wesley Iwao Ueunten

Preface, vii-viii
Katsunori Yamazato

THREE PLAYS by JON SHIROTA

Lucky Come Hawaii, 1
Jon Shirota

Leilani’s Hibiscus, 52
Jon Shirota

Voices from Okinawa, 94
Jon Shirota

FIVE UCHINANCHU IN HAWAI’I

History and Okinawans, 134
Mitsugu Sakihara

Grandfather to Grandson: Perspectives on a Life, 140
Seiyei Wakukawa

The Gift: An Interview with June Hiroko Arakawa, 149
Kinuko Maehara Yamazato

The Dawning of an Okinawan, 157
Jon Shirota

An Okinawan Nisei in Hawaii, 174
Philip K. Ige

Sparrows of Angel Island: The Experience of a Young Japanese Prisoner of War, 187
Mitsugu Sakihara

Afterword, 203
Frank Stewart

About the Contributors, 208

Permissions and Acknowledgments, 210

Further Readings, 212

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Enduring War: Stories of What We’ve Learned

Edited by Frank Stewart

The stories, essays, and poems in this volume render the effects of war in our time and the shadows they cast, from the Pacific campaigns of World War II to genocide under the Khmer Rouge to hostilities in the Middle East. Soldiers, however, are not in the foreground in most of these works. More often, the writers depict war as a destructive force on the lives of children, women, and other civilians, and capture the lasting, complex ways in which innocent individuals and communities are harmed.

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Editor’s Note, vii

FICTION

Winterswijk, 1
Chester Aaron

The Story That Got Away, 45
Shahaduz Zaman

from The Gray Earth, 51
Galsan Tschinag

Last Song of Saravat, 69
Sharon May

The Scent of Thyme, 99
Chester Aaron

Heartless Willy, 119
Leo Litwak

Whisper Yet, 137
Ch’oe Yun

ESSAYS

On Being Unfree: Fences, Roadblocks, and the Iron Cage of Palestine, 13
David Shulman

Back to the World, 33
Vladislav Bajac

The Grim Reaper, Agrotherapy, Kokopelli, and Pinochet’s Darkness, 87
Shepherd Bliss

POETRY

First War, 12
Shmu’el HaNagid

News That Stays, 42
Peter Cole

My Pacific War on the Hidaka Plain, 67
Yumiko Tsumura

What Did I Learn in the Wars, 97
Yehuda Amichai

Four Poems, 109
Ayukawa Nobuo

Five Poems, 132
Tamura Ryuichi

Jerusalem, 160
Naomi Shihab Nye

About the Contributors, 163

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Gates of Reconciliation: Literature and the Ethical Imagination

Edited by Frank Stewart and Barry Lopez

In this collection of essays, fiction, and poetry set in South America, Europe, Australia, the Middle East, Asia, the United States, and elsewhere, a diverse group of writers explores the role of literature in confronting the most pressing issue of our time: how individuals, communities, and nations can reconcile differences and grievances and forge a future with a renewed sense of dignity and mutual respect.

Prologue: ¡Nunca Más!, vii
Barry Lopez

FICTION

Save the I-Hotel, 1
Lysley Tenorio

In Memoriam, 35
Jorge Edwards

Cranes, 166
Hwang Sun-wŏn

POETRY

Three Poems, 19
Margaret Atwood

Eclogues, 54
Mark Tredinnick

Soul of the Felt Cloak, 93
Aku Wuwu

Two Poems, 113
Taha Muhammad Ali

Two Poems, 137
Aharon Shabtai

Three Poems, 144
Samih al-Qasim

ESSAYS

Messages from Abroad, 26
Alexis Nelson

Pollen: An Ode, 51
Christopher Cokinos

Stellwagen Bank, 66
Lydia Peelle

Visitations, 73
John Luther Adams

One Story House, 78
Rebecca Solnit

As If 1918 Never Happened, 101
Davide Sapienza

Threshold of Human Touch, 108
Kate Joyce

from Baghdad, Yesterday, 128
Sasson Somekh

The Dogs of Deng Xiao Ping, 146
Santiago Roncagliolo

Epilogue, 171
Barry Lopez

About the Contributors, 173

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Maps of Reconciliation: Literature and the Ethical Imagination

Edited by Frank Stewart and Barry Lopez

In this collection, the editors turn to some of the world’s most thoughtful authors — in fiction, essay, poetry, drama, and parable — to ask important questions about the future, to give us moral direction, individual courage, and a map toward reconciliation. In many voices and dialects, they urge us to be attentive and compassionate — somehow, as guest editor Barry Lopez writes, to bring hope to bear on the things that confound us. “We start with our instinct for reconciliation, to address the war in the self, the war in the kitchen, the war in Sudan.”

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Editors’ Note, vii

ORATORY

The Ice Is Melting in the North, 1
Oren Lyons

ESSAYS

Wonderwerk, 13
Julia Martin

Wandering Souls, 108
Wayne Karlin

In Memoriam, 162
Alberto Manguel

INTERVIEW

The Leadership Imperative: An Interview with Oren Lyons, 4
Barry Lopez

POETRY

A Wandering Estonian, 50
Kazuko Shiraishi

Two Poems, 105
Ann Hunkins

Letters of Farewell, 138
Chris Merrill

Meditation #7: Prayer for Peace, 214
Luis H. Francia

PLAY

Eyes of the Heart, 61
Catherine Filloux

FICTION

The Crow, 36
Yan Lianke

The Return, 52
Tony Birch

The Homecoming of an Old Beijing Man, 146
Wang Ping

India, 167
Prafulla Roy

The Tamyrs: A Tale of Two Peoples, 215
Galsan Tschinag

PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS

Honokahua, 24
Franco Salmoiraghi

‘Onipa‘a, 126
Franco Salmoiraghi

Ho‘oku‘ikahi: To Unify As One, 190
Franco Salmoiraghi

About the Contributors, 222

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Crossing Over: Partition Literature from India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh

Edited by Frank Stewart and Sukrita Paul Kumar

Crossing Over comprises stories from three South Asian countries—India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh—with a combined population of over two billion. The works here focus on the cataclysmic experiences of Partition in 1947 and its aftermath, including the Bangladesh War of Independence in 1971. Many of these works have not been readily accessible to American and other English-speaking readers; they serve as a mere glimpse at a rich and vast body of literature being produced in many languages of the Subcontinent.

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Editor’s Note

ESSAYS

from The Other Side of Silence, 41
Urvashi Butalia

On Writing Sleepwalkers, 144
Joginder Paul

FICTION

The Train Has Reached Amritsar, 1
Bhisham Sahni

Toba Tek Singh, 14
Saadat Hasan Manto

Lajwanti, 21
Rajinder Singh Bedi

Incognita, 33
Rashid Haider

Pali, 56
Bhisham Sahni

The Claim,74
Mohan Rakesh

The Dog of Tetwal, 80
Saadat Hasan Manto

Whose Story?, 88
Gulzar

The Owner of Rubble, 91
Mohan Rakesh

Father, 101
Prafulla Roy

Mozel, 111
Saadat Hasan Manto

Farewell, 128
Samaresh Basu

from Sleepwalkers, 136
Joginder Paul

Where There Is No Frontier, 151
Prafulla Roy

from Basti, 177
Intizar Husain

Rebirth, 187
Abul Bashar

How Many Pakistans?, 193
Kamleshwar

Cool, Sweet Water, 208
Khadija Mastur

About the Contributors, 213

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Where the Rivers Meet

Where the Rivers Meet is a remarkable collection of new fiction, essays, and poetry from Australia, a complex society and a country with a multilayered history. Among Australia’s many resources is a large community of outstanding writers that includes a growing number of novelists, poets, and essayists of Indigenous descent. Their stories—many of them previously untold in literature—deepen and expand our understanding of the experiences that make up Australia’s past and present.

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Editor’s Note, vii

ESSAYS

The Rivers of Babylon, 1
Deborah Bird Rose

Walk My Country, 7
Robyn Davidson

Not Quite White in the Head, 23
Melissa Lucashenko

On the Edge, 61
Ashley Hay

How’s Your Day Been?, 126
Don Watson

FICTION

The Bulldozer, 33
Tony Birch

from Home, 45
Larissa Behrendt

The Bullock Run, 68
Roger McDonald

Republic of Love, 100
Delia Falconer

from Swallow the Air, 106
Tara June Winch

from Benang, 112
Kim Scott

from Bitin’ Back, 131
Vivienne Cleven

from Earth, 145
Bruce Pascoe

from Carpentaria, 167
Alexis Wright

POETRY

Three Poems, 18
Samuel Wagan Watson

Two Poems, 21
John Mateer

Three Poems, 40
Kevin Hart

Two Poems, 43
John Jenkins

Three Poems, 56
Louise Crisp

Two Poems, 58
Adrienne Eberhard

Suddenly, Trees, 96
Martin Harrison

Four Poems, 98
Luke Davies

Inlet, 105
Judith Beveridge

Four Poems, 121
David Malouf

Three Poems, 141
Louise Oxley

Coogee, 161
Stephen Edgar

Among the Mountains of Guang-Xi Province, in Southern China, 163
Robert Gray

Two Poems, 165
Mark Tredinnick

About the Contributors, 179

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Beyond Words

Beyond Words presents more than two dozen authors from China, Tibet, Japan, Korea, the Philippines, Indonesia, Viet Nam, Cambodia, and Malaysia discussing their particular approaches to writing. The editors have collected their words as they appear in essays, interviews, stories, and poems and have sought diversity in nationality, language, age, gender, and aesthetics.

Editor’s Note

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PART ONE: HUMAN NATURE ITSELF IS POETIC

Human Nature Itself Is Poetic: An Interview, 1
Ko Ŭn with Patricia Donegan

Three Poems, 9
Ko Ŭn

Writing in Two Tongues, 12
Wang Ping

A Necessary Beginning: An Interview, 17
N.V.M. Gonzalez with Roger J. Bresnahan

Fishing in the River Esk, 28
Alfred A. Yuson

My American Books, 31
Mo Yan

PART TWO: INSCRIPTION ETCHED BY WATER

Inscription Etched by Water, 36
Pak Tujin

Coming Full Circle: An Interview, 39
Nguyen Duy with Nguyen Ba Chung

The Writer and the Native Tradition: A Conversation, 44
Muhammad Haji Salleh with F. Sionil José

A Quid of Betel, 49
Muhammad Haji Salleh

Spirit and Literature, 51
F. Sionil José

Keeping Not Writing: An Interview, 58
Yasutaka Tsutsui with Larry McCaffery and others

The Lion, 66
Yasutaka Tsutsui

Pasemon: On Allusion and Illusions, 72
Goenawan Mohamad

PART THREE: WORDS FROM THE FIRE

Parable of the Googol Balloons, 83
Gémino H. Abad

An Autobiography, 85
Nguyen Chi Thien

Words from the Fire: An Interview, 93
Pal Vannariraks with Sharon May

Nyima Tsering’s Tears, 97
Woeser

Cricket Song, 105
Lam Thi My Da

Without Words: An Interview, 108
Soth Polin with Sharon May

PART FOUR: ENCOUNTERS

A Poem That Came Easily, 116
Yun Tongju

Realism, Humor, and Social Commitment: An Interview, 119
Phuntshog Tashi with Patricia Schiaffini

A Particular Sort of Story, 126
Can Xue

The Land of Peach Blossoms, 130
Can Xue

To the Readers, 138
Han Yong’un

From Mother Tongue to Linguistic Mother, 139
Yoko Tawada

Encounters, 144
K. S. Maniam

A Commitment to Life: An Interview, 155
Xue Di with Melissa Clark

About the Contributors, 163

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Varua Tupu

Varua Tupu—the first anthology of its kind—offers English-speaking readers the stories, memoirs, poetry, photography, and paintings of a French Polynesian artistic community that has been growing in strength since the 1960s. In the literature and images of Varua Tupu, the people of this astonishing group of islands speak for themselves.

Te Ao Mā‘ohi: An Overview, xi

Fa‘a‘ā: A Photographic Essay, 1
Michel Chansin

A Strange Ship, 13
Louise Peltzer

Three Poems, 23
Flora Devatine

from Hymns to My Island, 31
Louise Peltzer

A Little Scholarship Recipient from Auti, 37
Taaria Walker

Tangata: A Photographic Essay, 53
Marie-Hélène Villierme

The Source: An Interview with Henri Hiro, 71
Rai a Mai

Three Poems, 83
Henri Hiro

Three Poems, 91
Patrick Araia Amaru

from Vai: River in a Cloudless Sky, 97
Rai a Mai

Maker of Dreams, 105
Bruno Saura

Bobby, 117
John Lind

from Breadfruit and Frangipani, 127
Célestine Hitiura Vaite

from Mutisms, 147
Titaua Peu

The Arrival, 153
Kareva Mateata-Allain

Marquesas: A Photographic Essay, 169
Michel Chansin

Tattoo, 179
Rai a Mai

Glossary, 187

Contributors, 189

Credits and Permissions, 193

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Blood Ties

Blood Ties presents work from rural and urban China, Tibet, Singapore, and the U.S. Through fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and artwork, this volume explores the complexities of Chinese identity created by migration, displacement, ethnic mixing, and separation from homeland. Individuals whose identities have been made more complex by rapid globalization will find these works especially meaningful.

Editor’s Note, vii

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ESSAYS

City Out of Breath, 50
Ken Chen

Home Away from Home: Photographs from the On Char Collection, 99
Gregory Yee Mark

The Spirit of Zhyge Alu: The Nuosu Poetry of Aku Wuwu, 113
Mark Bender

FICTION

Yanni’s Secret, 1
Zhang Kangkang

Alien, 23
Catherine Lim

Ephemeral Life, 29
Zhu Wenying

Zhima, 59
Zhang Kangkang

Down to the River, 103
Colin Cheong

from The Shrimp People, 131
Rex Shelley

Blood Ties, 138
Alai

POETRY

Five Poems, 17
Arthur Sze

from Spinning Polyhedral Mirror, 54
Yan Li

Rose Hips, 57
Zhang Er

Three Poems, 106
Wang Ping

Four Poems, 119
Aku Wuwu

CHAPBOOK

Konglish, 172
Yuzun Kang

About the Contributors, 188