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Format: 1 online resource (280 p.) : , 9 illustrations

ISBN: 9780822393962

Content: A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness features essays and poems by Cherríe L. Moraga, one of the most influential figures in Chicana/o, feminist, queer, and indigenous activism and scholarship. Combining moving personal stories with trenchant political and cultural critique, the writer, activist, teacher, dramatist, mother, daughter, comadre, and lesbian lover looks back on the first ten years of the twenty-first century. She considers decade-defining public events such as 9/11 and the campaign and election of Barack Obama, and she explores socioeconomic, cultural, and political phenomena closer to home, sharing her fears about raising her son amid increasing urban violence and the many forms of dehumanization faced by young men of color. Moraga describes her deepening grief as she loses her mother to Alzheimer’s; pays poignant tribute to friends who passed away, including the sculptor Marsha Gómez and the poets Alfred Arteaga, Pat Parker, and Audre Lorde; and offers a heartfelt essay about her personal and political relationship with Gloria Anzaldúa.Thirty years after the publication of Anzaldúa and Moraga’s collection This Bridge Called My Back, a landmark of women-of-color feminism, Moraga’s literary and political praxis remains motivated by and intertwined with indigenous spirituality and her identity as Chicana lesbian. Yet aspects of her thinking have changed over time. A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness reveals key transformations in Moraga’s thought; the breadth, rigor, and philosophical depth of her work; her views on contemporary debates about citizenship, immigration, and gay marriage; and her deepening involvement in transnational feminist and indigenous activism. It is a major statement from one of our most important public intellectuals.

Note: Frontmatter -- , The Color of a Nation -- , Contents -- , Drawings by Celia Herrera Rodríguez -- , Prólogo: A Living Codex -- , Agradecimientos -- , A Xicana Lexicon -- , A XicanaDyke Codex of Changing Consciousness / 2000 -- , From Inside the First World / 2001 on 9/11 and Women- of- Color Feminism -- , An Irrevocable Promise / 2002 -- , What Is Left of Us -- , MeXicana Blues -- , Weapons of the Weak / 2003 -- , California Dreaming -- , Cuento Xicano -- , Indígena as Scribe / 2005 -- , The Altar of My Undoing -- , Aguas Sagradas -- , And It Is All These Things That Are Our Grief -- , Poetry of Heroism / 2007 -- , The Salt That Cures / 2009 -- , South Central Farmers -- , The Other Face of (Im)migration / 2008 -- , Floricanto -- , Modern-Day Malinches / 2008 -- , What’s Race Gotta Do With It? / 2008 -- , This Benighted Nation We Name Home / 2009 -- , Still Loving in the (Still) War Years / 2009 -- , Epílogo / March 21, 2010 -- , Appendix: Sola, Pero Bien Acompañada / 2006 -- , Notes -- , Bibliography -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780822393962

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822393962

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780822393962