Dépaysement : le cas de from unincorporated territory (lukao)‎ par Craig Santos Perez

Abstract EN

This study focuses on Craig Santos Perez, author of the tetralogy from unincorporated territory (1.

[Hacha], 2.

[Saina], 3.

[Quma’] and 4.

[Lukao]).

in this work, Perez attempts to decode a place for the territory of Guam-this almost forgotten island, quasi-erased from maps, whose existence has been troubled a series of colonization (Spanish, Japanese, American).

the cultural disorientation (for the author, a brutal uprooting by the erasure of his ancestral culture and language as well as the destruction of the natural environment on his island) is born out of the radical mutation of this «home» beginning with the name of the place itself : Guam, Guma, Guåhan.

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taking as example for this study from unincorporated territory [lukao], the final book in perez’s tetralogy, the following article explores the elements which connect the real (autobiographical) landscapes of Guam and D’o’ahu in Hawaii to the imaginary landscapes (metaphoric, mythic and poetic) in order to demonstrate how this book, in its resistance to cultural displacement and colonialism for its author creates a kind of displacement (linguistic, cultural) for its readers.

through a process of back and forth (in time and languages), we find ourselves, assemble, reassemble, come back together.