Loving in the War Years: Lo Que Nunca Paso Por Sus Labios: Lo Que Nunca Pasã Por Sus Labios (South End Press Classics Series, 6) - Softcover

Moraga, Cherrie L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0896086267 ISBN 13: 9780896086265

Verlag: SOUTH END PR, 2000

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Weaving together poetry and prose, Spanish and English, family history and political theory, Loving in the War Years has been a classic in the feminist and Chicano canon since its 1983 release. This new edition—including a new introduction and three new essays—remains a testament of Moraga's coming-of-age as a Chicana and a lesbian at a time when the political merging of those two identities was severely censured.

Drawing on the Mexican legacy of Malinche, the symbolic mother of the first mestizo peoples, Moraga examines the collective sexual and cultural wounding suffered by women since the Conquest. Moraga examines her own mestiza parentage and the seemingly inescapable choice of assimilation into a passionless whiteness or uncritical acquiescence to the patriarchal Chicano culture she was raised to reproduce. By finding Chicana feminism and honoring her own sexuality and loyalty to other women of color, Moraga finds a way to claim both her family and her freedom.

Moraga's new essays, written with a voice nearly a generation older, continue the project of "loving in the war years," but Moraga's posture is now closer to that of a zen warrior than a street-fighter. In these essays, loving is an extended prayer, where the poet-politica reflects on the relationship between our small individual deaths and the dyings of nations of people (pueblos). Loving is an angry response to the "cultural tyranny" of the mainstream art world and a celebration of the strategic use of "cultural memory" in the creation of an art of resistance.

Cherríe Moraga is the co-editor of the classic feminist anthology This Bridge Called My Back and the author of The Last Generation. She is Artist-in-Residence at Stanford University.

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Cherríe Moraga is poet, playwright and essayist, and the co-editor of This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color. She is the author of numerous plays including Shadow of a Man and Watsonville: Some Place Not Her--which both won the Fund for New American Plays Award in 1991 and 1995 respectively - and Heroes and Saints, which earned the Pen West Award for Drama in 1992. Moraga is a recipient of the United States's National Endowment for the Arts’ Theatre Playwrights’ Fellowship and is Artist -in-Residence at Stanford University.

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• Verlag: SOUTH END PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0896086267
• ISBN 13: 9780896086265
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 234
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