The Wounded Heart [electronic resource] : Writing on Cherríe Moraga / Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yarbro-Bejarano, Yvonne.

Series:

Chicana matters series.

Chicana matters series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lesbians in literature.

Mexican Americans in literature.

Mexican American women in literature.

Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.

Women and literature.

Moraga, Cherríe--Criticism and interpretation.

Moraga, Cherríe.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (218 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In her work as poet, essayist, editor, dramatist, and public intellectual, Chicana lesbian writer Cherríe 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Title Abbreviations

Introduction: Chicana Lesbian Writing and the Intersection of Cultural and Critical Practices

PART I. The Body

PART II. The Plays

PART III. The Written Identity

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-188) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-292-75987-8

OCLC:

967524463