Cherríe Moraga (California 1952) es poeta, ensayista y dramaturga reconocida internacionalmente, cuya carrera profesional comenzó en 1981 con su coedición, junto a Gloria Anzaldúa, del texto feminista fundamental This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color. Es autora de varias colecciones de escritos, incluyendo A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness: Writings 2000-2010 y, más recientemente, Loving in the War Years & Other Writings 1978-1999, publicado en 2023. También es autora de dos memorias: Waiting in the Wings—Portrait of a Queer Motherhood y Native Country of the Heart, publicada en 2019 por Farrar, Straus & Giroux con gran reconocimiento. Moraga ha recibido el Rockefeller Fellowship para Literatura de United States Artists y el Lifetime Achievement Award de la American Studies Association, así como la Medalla de Distinción de Barnard. En el teatro, ha ganado una beca del National Endowment for the Arts y dos premios Fund for New American Plays, además del premio PEN West para Drama. Moraga es Profesora Distinguida Emérita en el Departamento de Inglés de la Universidad de California, Santa Barbara, donde cofundó el Las Maestras Center for Xicana[x] Indigenous Thought, Art, and Social Praxis.
Esta puente, mi espalda (Ism Pres, 303) · This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (Kitchen Table/Women of Color Press, 1983) · Giving Up the Ghost: Teatro in Two Acts (West End Press, 1986) · Heroes and Saints and Other Plays (West End Press, 1994) · The Last Generation: Prose and Poetry (South End Press, 1999) · Loving in the War Years: Lo Que Nunca Paso por Sus Labios (South End Press, 2000) · The Hungry Woman/Heart of the Earth (West End Press, 2001) · Watsonville/Circle in the Dirt: Watsonville: Some Place Not Here and Circle in the Dirt (West End Press, 2002) · Ultima generación (Horas y horas, 2005) · A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness: Writings, 2000–2010 (Duke University Press, 2011) · Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019) · Waiting in the Wings: Portrait of a Queer Motherhood (Haymarket Books, 2022)
Waiting in the Wings by Cherre Moraga. Author Cherre Moraga. With the premature birth of her son-when HIV-related mortality rates were at their highest-Moraga, a new mother at 40-years-old, was forced to confront the fragile volatility of life and death; in these recorded dreams and reflections, her terror and resilience are made palpable.
Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir is, at its core, a mother-daughter story. The mother, Elvira, was hired out as a child, along with her siblings, by their own father to pick cotton in California’s Imperial Valley. The daughter, Cherríe Moraga, is a brilliant, pioneering, queer Latina feminist. The story of these two women, and of their people, is woven together in an intimate memoir of critical reflection and deep personal revelation. As a young woman, Elvira left California to work as a cigarette girl in glamorous late-1920s Tijuana, where an ambiguous relationship ...
A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness features essays and poems by Cherríe L. Moraga, one of the most influential figures in Chicana/o, feminist, queer, and indigenous activism and scholarship. Combining moving personal stories with trenchant political and cultural critique, the writer, activist, teacher, dramatist, mother, daughter, comadre, and lesbian lover looks back on the first ten years of the twenty-first century. She considers decade-defining public events such as 9/11 and the campaign and election of Barack Obama, and she explores socioeconomic, cultural, and ...
Quinientos años después de la accidental llegada de Colón, una mujer mestiza y lesbiana recoge las cenizas de los códices aztecas y escribe, negándose a aceptar la desaparición de su pueblo. La última generación son poemas y ensayos nacidos de la urgencia porque la cultura chicana es una tribu que desaparece y porque la política de los tiempos reclama una respuesta de quién se ve como una antigua escriba mesoamericana que se expresa en "flor y canción". De modo que estos no son tanto ensayos como poemas y estos no ...
In this third volume of plays by Cherríe Moraga to be published by West End Press, we confront the changing California landscape of the 1990s, as anti-immigrant, anti-youth, and English Only legislation sweeps across the farmworker towns and multi-racial urban communities of the state.
Both plays were developed through interviews conducted with residents in the two towns of Watsonville and East Palo Alto. Both towns stand in the shadow of the first world culture of the University: East Palo Alto is a poor neighbor of Stanford University south of San Francisco, while Watsonville, ...
In The Hungry Woman, an apocalyptic play written at the end of the millennium, Moraga uses mythology and an intimate realism to describe the embattled position of Chicanos and Chicanas, not only in the United States but in relation to each other. Drawing from the Greek Medea and the myth of La Llorona, she portrays a woman gone mad between her longing for another woman and for the Indian nation which is denied her.
In Heart of the Earth, a feminist revisioning of the Quich? Maya Popul Vuh story, Moraga creates an allegory for contemporary Chicanismo in which the enemy ...
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 ...
A classic work by award-winning author Cherríe Moraga, The Last Generation is an electric mix of prose and poetry that continues conversations started in the beloved books This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color and Loving in the War Years: Lo que nunca pasó por sus labios. Highly politicized and intensely personal, Moraga's work dares to imagine the mythic nation Queer Atzlán: a brave vision for gender, sexuality, race, art, nationalism, and the politics of liberation. Moraga crosses literary genres to ruminate on ...
Heroes and Saints & Other Plays is Chicana playwright Cherr e Moraga's premiere collection of theatre. Included are: "Shadow of a Man," winner of the 1990 Fund for New American Plays Award; "Heroes and Saints," winner of the Dramalogue, the PEN West, and the Critics Circle awards, as well as the Will Glickman Prize for Best Play of 1992; and "Giving Up the Ghost," first published by West End Press in 1986, and now presented here in its revised stage version.
An emotionally haunting encounter that asks us as women to look back over our shoulders and face the unforgettable Moraga drums up the pulse of the past in all of us." Melding desire and memory into haunting new vistas and compelling . Cherrie Moraga is an incandescent new voice in Chicana/o literature.
This groundbreaking collection reflects an uncompromised definition of feminism by women of color. Through personal essays, criticism, interviews, testimonials, poetry, and visual art, the collection explores, as coeditor Cherríe Moraga writes, “the complex confluence of identities—race, class, gender, and sexuality—systemic to women of color oppression and liberation.”
Antología de ensayos, narraciones personales y poemas escritos por mujeres de ascendencia chicana, latina, indígena, asiática y africana --en suma, mujeres de color-- que viven en los Estados Unidos. Esta puente, mi espalda es la traducción y adaptación al español de la antología This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color que redactaron y recopilaron Cherríe Moraga y Gloria Anzaldúa, chicanas geniales e innovadoras de familias humildes. Las múltiples autoras de Esta puente, mi espalda manifiestan una ...