The Wounded Heart: Writing on Cherrie Moraga

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.

Author: Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 11/01/2001
Pages: 217
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 8.98h x 5.42w x 0.52d
ISBN: 9780292796089

Review Citation(s):
Choice 03/01/2002 pg. 1244

About the Author
Yarbro-Bejarano, Yvonne: - Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano is Professor of Spanish and Chair of Spanish and Portuguese at Stanford University.