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The Last Generation
Prose and Poetry
Cherríe Moraga
Pages: 196ISBN: 0-89608-466-3
Format: paper
Release Date: 1993-01-01
"Vulnerable and wise, [The Last Generation] sets us yearning with the author 'to be fully known and loved.'"—Library Journal
"I adore Cherríe Moraga's work. . . . She is absolutely essential."—Junot Díaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
A classic work by award-winning author Cherríe Moraga, The Last Generation is an electric mix of prose and poetry that continues conversations started in the beloved books This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color and Loving in the War Years: Lo que nunca pasó por sus labios. Highly politicized and intensely personal, Moraga's work dares to imagine the mythic nation Queer Atzlán: a brave vision for gender, sexuality, race, art, nationalism, and the politics of liberation. Moraga crosses literary genres to ruminate on the paradox of being at once inside and outside the myriad struggles and communities—interlocking and often at odds—that spur her art and activism. Speaking from her experience as a queer Chicana activist/artist, Moraga is committed to building a broad politic of solidarity and justice for all dispossessed people.
With fierce honesty and incisive political analysis, Moraga offers more than an inspiring portrait of the struggle of an activist artist—she helps us see the world as it is and dream it up anew.
One of the most influential feminist thinkers of her generation, Cherríe Moraga is the award-winning author of Loving in the War Years: Lo que nunca pasó por sus labios and co-editor, with Gloria Anzaldúa, of This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color. A renowned playwright, Moraga is currently artist-in-residence at Stanford University.
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Praise
“Moraga boldly examines the meaning of being Chicana and lesbian in the
United States today.”
—Judith Ortiz Cofer, Women's Review of Books
“Moraga demonstrates her virtuosity as a poet; and, as a poet, she brings
to her nonfiction essays images so hard, honest, and disturbing that her political
analysis is breathtakingly personal and immediate.”
—San Francisco Chronicle
"I adore Cherríe Moraga's work. . . . She is absolutely essential." —Junot Díaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
Cherríe Moraga
Click here to view Cherríe Moraga's full Author PageCherríe Moraga is a poet, playwright and essayist, and the co-editor of This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color. She is the author of numerous plays including Shadow of a Man and Watsonville: Some Place Not Here (both won the Fund for New American Plays Award in 1991 and 1995, respectively) and Heroes and Saints, which earned the Pen West Award for Drama in 1992. Her plays have been anthologized in numerous collections and are also published in a three-volume series of collected works published by West End Press of Albuquerque, New Mexico, including The Hungry Woman: A Mexican Medea. Her collected non-fiction writings include: The Last Generation (South End Press); a memoir, Waiting in the Wings: Portrait of a Queer Motherhood (Firebrand Books); and a new expanded edition of the now classic Loving in the War Years, republished by South End Press in 2000. Ms. Moraga is also a recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts' Theatre Playwrights' Fellowship and is the Artist-in-Residence in the Departments of Drama and Spanish & Portuguese at Stanford University.