Description
Book SynopsisAnalyzing the "in-between" spaces in Moraga’s writing where race, gender, class, and sexuality intermingle, this first book-length study of Moraga’s work focuses on her writing of the body and related material practices of sex, desire, and pleasure.
Trade Review"Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano has written the best feminist study to date of Moraga's art in its richest aesthetic, cultural, and political implications. This book, I believe, is a major reading of a major Chicana intellectual. More than that, it is a sweeping reassessment of Chicano/a theater and of Moraga's reclamation of the Chicano/a movement, a model of literary and cultural historicism, and a searching and engaging exploration of the major critical issues in current Chicano/a discourse." oJose David Saldivar, author of Border Matters: Remapping American Cultural Studies
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Title Abbreviations
- Introduction: Chicana Lesbian Writing and the Intersection of Cultural and Critical Practices
- Part I: The Body
- 1. (De)constructing the Lesbian Body
- Part II: The Plays
- 2. Giving Up the Ghost: Feminist Theory and the Staging of Mestiza Desire
- 3. Shadow of a Man: Touching the Wound in Order to Heal
- 4. "The Miracle People": Heroes and Saints and Contemporary Chicano Theater
- Part III: The Written Identity
- 5. "I Long to Enter You Like a Temple": Sex, Salvation, and Shamanism
- 6. Whiteness in The Last Generation: The Nation, the "Half-breed," and the Queer
- 7. Writing the Lesbian Mother: "Waiting in the Wings"
- Appendix: A Chronology of Major Works by Cherríe Moraga
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
