Xicancuicatl, Arteaga, Alfred Moraga, Cherrie

Автор: Moraga Cherrie
Название: Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir
ISBN: 1250251176 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781250251176
Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink
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This memoir's beauty is in its fierce intimacy. --Roy Hoffman, The New York Times Book Review

One of Literary Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2019

From the celebrated editor of This Bridge Called My Back, Cherr e Moraga charts her own coming-of-age alongside her mother's decline, and also tells the larger story of the Mexican American diaspora.

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, Cherr e 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 with a wealthy white man taught her life lessons about power, sex, and opportunity. As Moraga charts her mother's journey--from impressionable young girl to battle-tested matriarch to, later on, an old woman suffering under the yoke of Alzheimer's--she traces her own self-discovery of her gender-queer body and Lesbian identity, as well as her passion for activism and the history of her pueblo. As her mother's memory fails, Moraga is driven to unearth forgotten remnants of a U.S. Mexican diaspora, its indigenous origins, and an American story of cultural loss.

Poetically wrought and filled with insight into intergenerational trauma, Native Country of the Heart is a reckoning with white American history and a piercing love letter from a fearless daughter to the mother she will never lose.

Автор: Inci Bilgin Tekin
Название: Myths of Oppression: Revisited in Cherrie Moragas & Liz Lochheads Drama
ISBN: 3838203089 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783838203089
Издательство: Gazelle Book Services
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Описание: Inci Bilgin Tekins study offers a comparative perspective on two very challenging contemporary female playwrights, Liz Lochhead and Cherrie Moraga, and their Scottish and Chicanese adaptations of myths -- such as the Greek Medea and Oedipus or the Mayan Popul Vuh -- which address ethnic, racial, gender, and hierarchical oppression. Her book incorporates postcolonial and feminist readings of Lochheads and Moragas plays while it also explores different mythologies on the background. Bilgin Tekin not only introduces an original point of view on Liz Lochheads and Cherrie Moragas plays as adaptations or rewrites, but also calls attention to the non-canonized Scottish, Aztec, and Mayan mythologies. Following an innovative approach, she discusses the question in which ways Lochheads and Moragas adaptations of myths are challenges to the canon and further suggests a feminist version of Augusto Boals "Theatre of the Oppressed". The study appeals to readers of mythology, drama, and comparative literature. Those interested in postcolonial and feminist theories will also gain valuable new insights.

Автор: Arteaga Alfred
Название: Xicancuicatl: Collected Poems
ISBN: 0819579688 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780819579683
Издательство: Marston Book Services
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Описание: 7/15/95 Paris Xicancuicatl collects the poetry of leading avant-garde Chicanx poet Alfred Arteaga (1950-2008), whom French philosopher Gilles Deleuze regarded as "among those rare poets who are able to raise or shape a new language within their language."