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Loving in the War Years
Lo que nunca pasó por sus labios
Cherríe Moraga
Pages: 264Edition: Classics Series, Volume 6
ISBN: 0-89608-627-5
Format: cloth
Release Date: 2000-01-01
This book is also available in paper
Cherríe Moraga has added a new generational perspective to her classic collection of essays and poetry, Loving in the War Years. The four new essays in this expanded edition are written in a voice nearly a generation older than that which echoes off the pages Moraga first wrote in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The original section of Loving paints a vivid portrait of Moraga's coming-of-age as a Chicana and a lesbian at a time when the political merging of those two identities was severely censured. The new section is testimony to the complexity of identity politics in the time of the Right, as Leftists of all stripes aimed to harness their hard-won self-knowledge and safe territory in the struggle to build power across their constituencies. Maintaining her focus on issues of race, sexuality, ideology, and political power, Moraga's posture is now closer to that of a zen warrior than a street-fighter, but her passionate engagement with life remains as intimate, insightful, and controversial as ever.
Weaving together poetry and prose, Spanish and English, family history and political theory, Loving in the War Years has been a classic in the feminist and Chicano canon since its 1983 release. The war years continue, and loving still resides in the uncensored word. The silenced sentence—lo que nunca pasó por sus labios—once spoken, inspires insurrection.
Table of Contents
Amar
Looking Back: Preface to the second edition
Introducción to the first edition
The Voices of the Fallers
What Kind of Lover Have You Made Me Mother?
La Dulce Culpa
Like Family Loving on the Run
Later, She Met Joyce
An Open Invitation to a Meal
You Upset the Whole System of This Place
Loving on the Run
Loving in the War Years
The Slow Dance
Fear, A Love Poem
Pesadilla
Passage
View of Three Bridges
La Güera
For the Color of My Mother
It’s the Poverty
What Does It Take?
Salvation, Jesus, and Suffer
Anatomy Lesson
It Got Her Over
Winter of Depression, 1982
The Road to Recovery
Minds & Heart
No Born-Again Children
November Again
You Call It "Amputation"
For Amber
Heading East
Modern-Day Hero
The Warbride
Lo Que Nunca Pasó por Sus Labios
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.