The Last Generation: Prose and Poetry
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| Rating | : | 4.98 (883 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0896084663 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 196 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-10 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
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. 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. 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.
Accurate description of product by distributor The product is what I payed for a used book at a very good price, the book itself is an amazing read, I trust this distributor enough to order from them again and the product arrived in a timely manner. A Complex and Problematic Exposition Moraga's second anthology of essays, poems, and prose has its moments, especially in the fictional entries, which are humorous, generous, and touching. Ten years have passed between Moraga's groundbreaking (and breathtaking) debut, 1983's Loving in the War Years. During that time, she became arguably the most preeminent Chicana feminist writer outside of the academy. The Last Gene
"In love, color blurs but never wholly disappears," she writes in another essay that delineates her lovers by race. At its best, her prose contains the same heartfelt revelations that make her poems memorable, as in a sexually explicit account of her first schoolgirl crush. From Publishers Weekly The product of a white father and a Mexican mother, playwright Moraga describes herself as a "mongrel" and knows "full well that my mestizaje--my breed blood--is the catalyst of my activism and my art." As a radical lesbian feminist, she is alienated from her cousins with their children and pregnant wives. Essays form the bulk of this debut collection, while a few interwoven poems provide a lyrical break from her heavily polemical tone. The dichotomy of her existence is underscored, she believes, by the U.S. . role in supporting dictatorships in Latin America. She views the Chicano movement as sexist, stemming from a c