"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." --Jose David Saldivar, author of
Border Matters: Remapping American Cultural Studies In her work as
poet, essayist, editor, dramatist, and public intellectual, Chicana
lesbian writer Cherrie Moraga has been extremely influential in
current debates on culture and identity as an ongoing, open-ended
process. Analyzing 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.
Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano divides the book into three sections, which
analyze Moraga's writing of the body, her dramaturgy in the context
of both dominant and alternative Western theatrical traditions, and
her writing of identities and racialized desire. Through close
textual readings of Loving in the War Years, Giving Up the Ghost,
Shadow of a Man, Heroes and Saints, The Last Generation, and
Waiting in the Wings, Yarbro-Bejarano contributes to the
development of a language to talk about sexuality as potentially
empowering, the place of desire within politics, and the intricate
workings of racialized desire.
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