{"product_id":"a-xicana-codex-of-changing-consciousness-9780822349624","title":"A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCollection of essays and poems that address the challenges of being a Chicana, a lesbian, and a feminist in the changing world of the twenty-first century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Moraga’s prose is characteristically trenchant and her stance unapologetic as ever. But there is a tender quality of reflection here, too, even nostalgia, that strikes a new note. . . . [T]he sense of trying to hang on to, to remember, something vanishing is palpable in this book. It is a posture that Moraga strikes superbly, and the result is a strong articulation of resistance and, yes, hope, from one of the most important queer Chicana intellectuals of our time.” - Victoria Bolf,\u003ci\u003e Lambda Literary Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Nostalgia, evolving consciousness, and the concept of (w)riting –writing to remember \/ making rite to remember \/ having the right to remember–lyrically permeate the pages of this book. Moraga’s ideas have matured and become more profound with the passage of time; I look forward to reading more of her eloquent resistance and wisdom in the coming years.” - \u003ci\u003eThe Feminist Texican [Reads]\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This is an overall compelling, timely, and on many fronts, prophetic read. There is just enough background discourse on Chicana feminist thought and history for those uninitiated readers, and many new critical reflections and insights for the more seasoned readers wondering what this author has to offer since her last influential work. Both will potentially walk away from this book with an overdue sense of indignation, as well as a sense of hope that within the burgeoning nest of Chicana consciousness and social activism, lies the golden egg of a just, social democracy in the United States.” - Christiane Grimal, \u003ci\u003eGRAAT Anglophone Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eA Xicana Codex\u003c\/i\u003e reminds readers about the contributions women of color have made to feminist inquiry. . . . The book is a must for everyone, especially those interested in the intersections informing transnational women of color feminist practice.” - Alvina E. Quintana, \u003ci\u003eWomen’s Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“‘I am no prophet, only a witness to the writing already on the wall that divides my own native homeland’ says Cherríe Moraga in the opening of her contemporary codex. Moraga speaks directly, as a powerful voice of a pivotal generation, a generation that is aging and coming to terms with its urgent, collective story. This political memoir in essays is a testimony to the awakening of an indigenous consciousness that has been disappeared in the memory of colonized Americas. The collection is blessed by the drawings of Celia Herrera Rodríguez. They provide the ceremonial flow. They represent the voices of the plants, earth and elements that give dreaming to the human mind. What a powerful offering in a time of reckoning.”—\u003cb\u003eJoy Harjo\u003c\/b\u003e, Mvskoke Nation, poet, musician, performer, playwright\u003cbr\u003e“Cherríe Moraga’s \u003ci\u003eA Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness\u003c\/i\u003e is a hope fulfilled. After the passing of Gloria Anzaldúa, Chicana\/o studies suffered something like an eclipse of the moon but here comes radical, creative light into our lives and scholarship once more. Moraga’s intellectual and emotional courage about sexuality, race, queerness, and feminist energy shows us that Barack Obama and all Americans also live in the time of Latinos and Xicanas. Underlying these essays is the creative question ‘how can this new demography of many colors and genders be cultivated into a new democracy?’”—\u003cb\u003eDavíd Carrasco\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eReligions of Mesoamerica: Cosmovision and Ceremonial Centers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eA Xicana Codex\u003c\/i\u003e reminds readers about the contributions women of color have made to feminist inquiry. . . . The book is a must for everyone, especially those interested in the intersections informing transnational women of color feminist practice.” -- Alvina E. Quintana * Women's Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e“Moraga’s prose is characteristically trenchant and her stance unapologetic as ever. But there is a tender quality of reflection here, too, even nostalgia, that strikes a new note. . . . [T]he sense of trying to hang on to, to remember, something vanishing is palpable in this book. It is a posture that Moraga strikes superbly, and the result is a strong articulation of resistance and, yes, hope, from one of the most important queer Chicana intellectuals of our time.” -- Victoria Bolf * Lambda Literary Review *\u003cbr\u003e“While I may turn to other writings for cultural criticism, Moraga provides what I have not been able to find on any other front: an indigenous Xicana path that insists on transgression as a political and spiritual imperative in a national environment whose core values are corrupt.” -- Paloma Martinez-Cruz * Letras Femeninas *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawings by Celia Herrera Rodríguez xiii\u003cbr\u003e Prólogo: A Living Codex xv\u003cbr\u003e Agradecimentos xix\u003cbr\u003e A Xicana Lexicon xxi\u003cbr\u003e One. Existo Yo \u003cbr\u003e A XicanaDyke Codex of Changing Consciousness 3\u003cbr\u003e From Inside the First World: On 9\/11 and Women-of-Color Feminism 18\u003cbr\u003e An Irrevocable Promise: Staging the Story Xicana 34\u003cbr\u003e Two. The Warring Inside \u003cbr\u003e What Is Left of Us 49\u003cbr\u003e MeXicana Blues 51\u003cbr\u003e Weapons of the Weak: On Fear and Political Resistance 54\u003cbr\u003e California Dreaming 73\u003cbr\u003e Cuento Xicano 76\u003cbr\u003e Indígena as Scribe: The (W)rite to Remember 79\u003cbr\u003e The Altar of My Undoing 97\u003cbr\u003e Three. Salt of the Earth \u003cbr\u003e Aguas Sagradas 105\u003cbr\u003e And It Is All These Things That Are Our Grief: Eulogy for Marsha Gómez 107\u003cbr\u003e Poetry of Heroism: A Tribute to Audre Lorde and Pat Parker 111\u003cbr\u003e The Salt That Cures: Remembering Gloria Anzaldúa 116\u003cbr\u003e Four. The Price of Beans \u003cbr\u003e South Central Farmers 133\u003cbr\u003e The Other Face of (Im)migration: In Conversation with West Asian Feminists 135\u003cbr\u003e Floricanto 146\u003cbr\u003e Modern-Day Malinches 148\u003cbr\u003e What's Race Gotta Do With It? On the Election of Barack Obama 151\u003cbr\u003e This Benighted Nation We Name Home: On the Fortieth Anniversary of Ethnic Studies 163\u003cbr\u003e Still Loving in the (Still) War Years: On Keeping Queer Queer 175\u003cbr\u003e Epílogo: Xicana Mind, Beginner Mind 193\u003cbr\u003e Appendix: Sola, Pero Bien Acompañada: The Art of Celia Herrera Rodríguez 201\u003cbr\u003e Notes 209\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 229\u003cbr\u003e Index 237","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406065344855,"sku":"9780822349624","price":76.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822349624.jpg?v=1730494409","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-xicana-codex-of-changing-consciousness-9780822349624","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}