Moraga / Cherrie L. Moraga A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness

Writings, 2000-2010
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9396-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten

Collection 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moraga, Cherríe L.

Cherrie L. Moraga, Moraga

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Drawings by Celia Herrera Rodríguez xiii

Prólogo: A Living Codex xv

Agradecimentos xix

A Xicana Lexicon xxi

One. Existo Yo

A XicanaDyke Codex of Changing Consciousness 3

From Inside the First World: On 9/11 and Women-of-Color Feminism 18

An Irrevocable Promise: Staging the Story Xicana 34

Two. The Warring Inside

What Is Left of Us 49

MeXicana Blues 51

Weapons of the Weak: On Fear and Political Resistance 54

California Dreaming 73

Cuento Xicano 76

Indígena as Scribe: The (W)rite to Remember 79

The Altar of My Undoing 97

Three. Salt of the Earth

Aguas Sagradas 105

And It Is All These Things That Are Our Grief: Eulogy for Marsha Gómez 107

Poetry of Heroism: A Tribute to Audre Lorde and Pat Parker 111

The Salt That Cures: Remembering Gloria Anzaldúa 116

Four. The Price of Beans

South Central Farmers 133

The Other Face of (Im)migration: In Conversation with West Asian Feminists 135

Floricanto 146

Modern-Day Malinches 148

What's Race Gotta Do With It? On the Election of Barack Obama 151

This Benighted Nation We Name Home: On the Fortieth Anniversary of Ethnic Studies 163

Still Loving in the (Still) War Years: On Keeping Queer Queer 175

Epílogo: Xicana Mind, Beginner Mind 193

Appendix: Sola, Pero Bien Acompañada: The Art of Celia Herrera Rodríguez 201

Notes 209

Bibliography 229

Index 237

Über Autor(innen)

Cherríe L. Moraga is an award-winning playwright, poet, essayist, and activist. She is the author of Loving in the War Years and co-editor, with Gloria Anzaldúa, of This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color. Moraga is a founding member of La RED Xicana Indígena, a network of Xicana activists committed to indigenous political education, spiritual practice, and grassroots organizing. She is an Artist-in-Residence in the Drama Department at Stanford University, where she also teaches in the Program in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity.