Volumes

MĀNOA’s collection of published biannual volumes, leading back to our first release in 1989.

To subscribe to our journal or purchase an issue, please visit the University of Hawaiʻi Press website.

Volume 32, Number 2, 2020

Acting My Age

A memoir by Thomas Farber

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Volume 32, Number 1, 2020

Tyranny Lessons: International Prose, Poetry, and Performance

Guest-edited by Alok Bhalla and Ming Di

Series Editor Frank Stewart

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Volume 31, Number 2, 2019

Displaced Lives from Four Continents

Guest-edited by Alok Bhalla and Ming Di

Series Editor Frank Stewart

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Volume 31, Number 1, 2019

Republic of Apples, Democracy of Oranges

Guest-edited by Tony Barnstone and Ming Di

Series Editor Frank Stewart

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Volume 30, Number 2, 2018

Becoming Brazil: New Fiction, Poetry, and Memoir 

Guest-Edited by Eric M. B. Becker and Noah Perales-Estoesta
Series Editor Frank Stewart

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Volume 30, Number 1, 2018

Words from the Fire: Poems by Jidi Majia

Translated by Jami Proctor Xu

Series Editor Frank Stewart

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Volume 29, Number 2, 2017

Mountain/Home: New Translations from Japan

Series Editor Frank Stewart

Guest Editor Leza Lowitz

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Volume 29, Number 1, 2017

Eyes of the Heart: Selected Plays by Catherine Filloux

Series Editor Frank Stewart

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Volume 28, Number 2, 2016

Red Peonies: Two Novellas of China by Zhang Yihe

Series Editor Frank Stewart

Guest-edited and translated by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping.

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Volume 28, Number 1, 2016

Curve of the Hook: An Archaeologist in Polynesia
by Yosihiko Sinoto
with Hiroshi Aramata

Series Editor Frank Stewart
Translated by Frank Stewart and Madoka Nagadō

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Volume 27, Number 2, 2015

The Colors of Dawn: Twentieth-Century Korean Poetry

Series Editor Frank Stewart
Guest Editors Brother Anthony of Taizé and Chung Eun-Gwi

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Volume 29, Number 1, 2015

Story is a Vagabond: Fiction, Essays, and Drama
by Intizar Husain

Series Editor Frank Stewart
Guest Editors Alok Ballah, Asif Farrukhi, and Nishat Zaidi

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Volume 26, Number 2, 2014

Islands of Imagination: Modern Indonesian Plays

Series Editor Frank Stewart
Guest Editors John H. McGlynn and Cobina Gillitt

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Volume 26, Number 1, 2014

 Starry Island
New Writing from Singapore

Series Editor Frank Stewart
Guest Editor Fiona Sze-Lorrain

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Volume 25, Number 2, 2013

Bright as an Autumn Moon:
Fifty Poems from the Sanskrit

Series Editor Frank Stewart
Translator Andrew Schelling

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Volume 25, Number 1, 2013

Cascadia:
The Life and Breath of the World

Series Editor Frank Stewart
Guest Editor Trevor Carolan

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Volume 24, Number 2, 2012

On Freedom:
Spirit, Art, and State

Series Editor Frank Stewart
Guest Editor Fiona Sze-Lorrain

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Volume 24, Number 1, 2012

Sky Lanterns:
New Poetry from China,
Formosa, and Beyond

Series Editor Frank Stewart
Guest Editor Fiona Sze-Lorrain

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Volume 23, Number 2, 2011

Almost Heaven:
On the Human and Divine

Editor Frank Stewart

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Volume 23, Number 1, 2011

Living Spirit:
Literature & Resurgence in Okinawa

Series Editor Frank Stewart
Guest Editor Katsunori Yamazato

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Volume 22, Number 2, 2010

Wild Hearts:
Literature, Ecology, and Inclusion

Series Editor Frank Stewart
Guest editor Anjoli Roy

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Volume 22, Number 1, 2010

Andha Yug:
The Age of Darkness

Series Editor Frank Stewart
Translated by Alok Bhalla

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Volume 21, Number 2, 2009

Lucky Come Hawaii
by Jon Shirota

Editor Frank Stewart

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Volume 21, Number 1, 2009

Voices from Okinawa:
Featuring Three Plays by Jon Shirota

Series Editor Frank Stewart
Guest Editor Katsunori Yamazato

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Volume 20, Number 2, 2008

Enduring War:
Stories of What We’ve Learned

Editor Frank Stewart

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Volume 20, Number 1, 2008

Gates of Reconciliation:
Literature and the Ethical Imagination

Series Editor Frank Stewart
Guest Editor Barry Lopez

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Volume 19, Number 2, 2007

Maps of Reconciliation:
Literature and the Ethical Imagination

Series Editor Frank Stewart
Guest Editor Barry Lopez

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Volume 19, Number 1, 2007

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

Series Editor Frank Stewart
Guest Editor Katsunori Yamazato

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Volume 18, Number 2, 2006

Where the Rivers Meet
New Writing from Australia

Series Editor Frank Stewart
Guest Editors Larissa Behrendt,
Barry Lopez, and Mark Tredinneck

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Volume 18, Number 1, 2006

Beyond Words
Asian Writers on Their Work

Series Editor Frank Stewart
Guest Editor Brent Fujinaka

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Volume 17, Number 2, 2005

Vārua Tupu:
New Writing from French Polynesia

Series Editor Frank Stewart

Guest Editors Kareva Mateata-Allain
and Alexander Dale Mawyer 

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Volume 17, Number 1, 2005

Blood Ties:
Writing Across Chinese Borders

Series Editor Frank Stewart

Guest Editors Karen Gernant
and Chen Zeping

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Volume 16, Number 2, 2004

Jungle Planet and Other New Stories

Series Editor Frank Stewart
Guest Editors Bruce Fulton, Eric Gamalinda,
Leigh Saffold, Arthur Sze, and John Whalen-Bridge

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Volume 16, Number 1, 2004

In the Shadow of Angkor:
Contemporary Writing from Cambodia

Series Editor Frank Stewart
Guest Editor Sharon May

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Volume 15, Number 2, 2003

The Mystified Boat:
Postmodern Stories from China

Series Editor Frank Stewart

Guest Editor Herbert J. Batt

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Volume 15, Number 1, 2003

Mercury Rising:
Contemporary Poetry from Taiwan

Series Editor Frank Stewart

Guest Editors Arthur Sze and Michelle Yeh

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Volume 14, Number 2, 2002

Century of the Tiger:
One Hundred Years of
Korean Culture in America (1902–2002)

Series Editor Frank Stewart

Guest Editors Jenny Ryun Foster
and Heinz Insu Fenkl

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Volume 14, Number 1, 2002

Two Rivers:
New Vietnamese Writing
from America and Viet Nam

Series Editor Frank Stewart
Guest Editors Kevin Bowen and Ngyuen Ba Chung

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Volume 13, Number 2, 2001

Secret Places:
New Writing from Nepal

Series Editor Frank Stewart

Guest Editors Samrat Upadhyay
and Manjushree Thapa

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Volume 13, Number 1, 2001

Silence to Light:
Japan and the Shadows of War

Series Editor Frank Stewart

Guest Editor Leza Lowitz

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Volume 12, Number 2, 2000

Song of the Snow Lion:
New Writing from Tibet

Series Editor Frank Stewart

Guest Editors Tsering Shakya
and Herbert J. Batt

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Volume 12, Number 1, 2000

Silenced Voices:
New Writing from Indonesia

Series Editor Frank Stewart
Guest Editor John H. McGlynn

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Volume 11, Number 2, 1999

The Wounded Season:
Writing from Korea

Series Editor Frank Stewart

Guest Editor Susie Jie Young Kim

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Volume 11, Number 1, 1999

Land beneath the Wind:
Writing from Malaysia

Series Editor Frank Stewart

Guest Editors K.S. Maniam and
Daizal Rafeek Samart

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Volume 10, Number 2, 1998

Inland Shores:
Writing from Western Canada

Series Editor Frank Stewart

Guest Editor Charlene Gilmore

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Volume 10, Number 1, 1998

The Zigzag Way:
Avant-Garde Poetry from China

Series Editor Frank Stewart
Guest Editor Arthur Sze

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Volume 9, Number 2, 1997

Century of Dreams:
Writing from the Philippines

Series Editor Frank Stewart

Guest Editors Eric Gamalinda

and Alfred Yuson

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Volume 9, Number 1, 1997

Homeland:
Writing from New Zealand

Series Editor Frank Stewart

Guest Editors Reina Whatiri

and Robert Sullivan

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Volume 8, Number 2, 1996

Seeing the Invisible:
Korean Women’s Fiction

Series Editor Frank Stewart

Guest Editor Bruce Fulton

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Volume 8, Number 1, 1996

Pacific Coast of South America

Series Editor Frank Stewart
Guest Editor James Hoggard

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Volume 7, Number 2, 1995

Viet Nam

Editors Robert Shapard and Frank Stewart
Guest Editors Kevin Bowen
and Nguyen Nguyet Cam

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Volume 7, Number 1, 1995

Japan

Editors Robert Shapard and Frank Stewart
Guest Editor Leza Lowitz

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Volume 6, Number 2, 1994

Russian Far East

Editors Robert Shapard
and Frank Stewart
Guest Editor Adele Barker

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Volume 6, Number 1, 1994

Post-Tiananmen Square

Editors Robert Shapard
and Frank Stewart
Guest Editor Arthur Sze

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Volume 5, Number 2, 1993

Australia

Editors Robert Shapard and Frank Stewart
Guest Editor Christina Thompson

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Volume 5, Number 1, 1993

Pacific Islands

Editors Robert Shapard and Frank Stewart
Guest Editor Vilsoni Hereniko

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Volume 4, Number 2, 1992

Mexico

Editors Robert Shapard
and Frank Stewart
Guest Editors Hernán Lara Zavala
and Darlaine Māhealani Dudoit

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Volume 4, Number 1, 1992

Phillipines

Editors Robert Shapard
and Frank Stewart
Guest Editor Alfred A. Yuson

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Volume 3, Number 2, 1991

Japan

Editors Robert Shapard and Frank Stewart
Guest Editor Masao Miyoshi

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Volume 3, Number 1, 1991

Indonesia

Editors Robert Shapard and Frank Stewart
Guest Editor John H. McGlynn

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Volume 2, Number 2, 1990

Korea

Editors Robert Shapard
and Frank Stewart
Guest Editor Kim Uchang

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Volume 2, Number 1, 1990

Papua New Guinea

Editors Robert Shapard
and Frank Stewart
Guest Editors Darlaine Māhealani Dudoit
and David M. Roskies

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Volume 1, Number 1 and 2, 1989

Premiere Issue

Editors Robert Shapard and Frank Stewart
Guest Editor Howard Goldblatt

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