Cherríe Moraga

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Cherríe L. Moraga
Los Angeles, California
, U.S.
Occupation
  • playwright
  • writer
  • poet
  • activist
  • distinguished professor
EducationImmaculate Heart College
Alma materSan Francisco State University
Subject
  • Feminism
  • Chicana studies
Notable worksThis Bridge Called My Back (1981); Loving in the War Years (1983); Waiting in the Wings (1997); A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness (2011); Native Country of the Heart (2018)
Notable awardsCritics' Circle; PEN West; American Book Award
PartnerCelia Herrera Rodríguez

Cherríe Moraga[1] (born September 25, 1952) is a Xicana feminist, writer, activist, poet, essayist, and playwright.[2][3] She is part of the faculty at the University of California, Santa Barbara in the Department of English since 2017, and in 2022 became a distinguished professor. Moraga is also a founding member of the social justice activist group La Red Xicana Indígena, which is network fighting for education, culture rights, and Indigenous Rights.[4] In 2017, she co-founded, with Celia Herrera Rodríguez, Las Maestras Center for Xicana Indigenous Thought, Art, and Social Practice, located on the campus of UC Santa Barbara.

Early life

Moraga was born on September 25, 1952, in

classism, where the object of oppression not only someone outside of my skin, but the someone inside my skin."[6][7] Moraga has cited her mother as her main inspiration to become a writer, stating that she was an eminent storyteller.[8]

Moraga attended

women of color. She earned her master's degree in Feminist Writings from San Francisco State University in 1980.[10]

Writing and themes

Themes in her writing include the intersections of gender, sexuality, and race, particularly in cultural production by women of color.[11] Moraga's work was featured in tatiana de la tierra's Latina lesbian magazine Esto no tiene nombre, which sought to inform and empower Latina lesbians through the work of writers like Moraga.[11]

Sexuality

Moraga is openly gay, having come out as a lesbian after her college years. In "La Guera", Moraga compared the discrimination she experienced as a lesbian to her mother's experiences being a poor, uneducated Mexican woman, stating that “My lesbianism is the avenue through which I have learned the most about silence and oppression, and it continues to be the most tactile reminder to me that we are not free human beings”.[8] After coming out, Moraga began writing more heavily and became involved with the feminist movement.[citation needed] In Loving in the War Years, Moraga cites Capitalist Patriarchy: A Case for Socialist Feminism as an inspiration when realizing her intersecting identity as a Chicana lesbian, saying: "The appearance of these sisters' words in print, as lesbians of color, suddenly made it viable for me to put my Chicana and lesbian self in the center of my movement."[12]

Career

Moraga speaking in 2000

Literature and writing

Moraga co-edited the anthology

Gloria Anzaldúa, and the first edition was published in 1981 by Persephone Press.[13]

In 1983,

women of color in the United States. Kitchen Table published the second edition of This Bridge Called My Back. In 1986, the book won the Before Columbus Foundation American Book Award for that year.[14] Along with Ana Castillo and Norma Alarcón, Moraga adapted this anthology into the Spanish-language Este puente, mi espalda: Voces de mujeres tercermundistas en los Estados Unidos.[15] Later that same year Moraga's first sole-authored book, Loving in the War Years: lo que nunca pasó por sus labios, was published.[16]

In 2007, Moraga was named a 2007 USA Rockefeller Fellow and granted $50,000 by United States Artists.[17][18] She won a Creative Work Fund Award in 2008, and the Gerbode-Hewlett Foundation Grant for Playwriting in 2009.[19]

Moraga has reflected on her experiences with feminist writing and activism in an oral history conducted by the Voices of Feminism Oral History Project.[20]

"Still Loving in the (Still) War Years"

In 2009, Moraga published the essay “Still Loving in the (Still) War Years: On Keeping Queer Queer", which critiqued the mainstreaming of LGBT politics through an emphasis on same-sex marriage. In the essay she also discussed

incomplete short citation].[23] She was also criticized for her refusal to address transgender women in the essay.[citation needed
] https://openjournals.neu.edu/nuwriting/home/article/download/58/44/

Theater

From 1994 to 2002, Moraga published a couple of volumes of

Albuquerque, NM.[24] She has taught courses in dramatic arts and writing at various universities across the United States and is currently an artist in residence at Stanford University. She has written and produced numerous theater productions. She is currently involved in a theatre communications group and was the recipient of the NEA Theatre Playwriting Fellowship Award.[14] In 2009 she received a Gerbode-Hewlett foundation grant for play writing.[8][2]

Watsonville: Some Place Not Here

Moraga's 1996 play,

Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and was winner of the Fund for New American Plays Award from the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.[25]

Select bibliography

Books

Theater

Other works

  • "Art in América Con Acento" (1994). Anthologized in Women Writing Resistance: essays on Latin America and the Caribbean (2003). Cambridge, Massachusetts: South End Press.

Selected critical works on Cherríe Moraga

  • Alarcón, Norma. “The Theoretical Subject(s) of This Bridge Called My Back and Anglo-American Feminism.” Criticism in the Borderlands: Studies in Chicano Literature, Culture and Ideology. Eds. Héctor Calderón and José David Saldívar. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1991. 28–39.
  • Allatson, Paul. “‘I May Create a Monster’: Cherríe Moraga's Hybrid Denial.” Antípodas: Journal of Hispanic and Galician Studies 11-12 (1999/2000): 103-121.
  • Allatson, Paul. “Cherríe Moraga.” The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Multiethnic American Literature. Ed. Emmanuel S. Nelson. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005. Vol. 3: 1520–23.
  • Arrizón, Alicia. "Cherríe Moraga." 50 Key Figures in Queer US Theatre. Eds. Jimmy A. Noriega and Jordan Schildcrout. London and New York: Routledge, 2022. 170-174.
  • Gilmore, Leigh. Autobiographics: A Feminist Theory of Women’s Self-Representation. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994.
  • Ikas, Karin Rosa. Chicana Ways: Conversations with Ten Chicana Writers. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2002.
  • Negrón-Muntaner, Frances. “Cherríe Moraga.” Latin American Writers on Gay and Lesbian Themes: A Bio-Critical Sourcebook. Ed. David William Foster. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994. 254–62.
  • Vivancos Perez, Ricardo F.
    doi:10.1057/9781137343581
    Radical Chicana Poetics. London and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
  • Yarbro-Bejarano, Yvonne. “Cherríe Moraga.” Dictionary of Literary Biography. Vol. 82: Chicano Writers First Series. Eds. Francisco A. Lomelí and Carl R. Shirley. Detroit: Gale/Bruccoli Clark Layman, 1989. 165–77.
  • Yarbro-Bejarano, Yvonne. “De-constructing the Lesbian Body: Cherríe Moraga’s Loving in the War Years.” The Lesbian and Gay Studies Reader. Ed. Henry Abelove, Michèle Ana Barale and David M. Halperin. New York: Routledge, 1993. 595–603.
  • Yarbro-Bejarano, Yvonne. The Wounded Heart: Writing on Cherríe Moraga. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001.

Awards

See also

References

Notes

  1. ^ cherriemoraga.com. "Cherrie Moraga: Introduction"
  2. ^ a b "Cherrie Moraga: Chicana/o-Latina/o Studies". Stanford University. Archived from the original on December 2, 2009. Retrieved December 22, 2013.
  3. JSTOR 10.3998/mpub.16346
    .
  4. OCLC 894128432.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link
    )
  5. ^ a b "Cherrie Moraga". University of Illinois at Chicago. Archived from the original on October 26, 2015. Retrieved December 22, 2013.
  6. ^ Moraga, Cherrie (September 1979). "La Guera" (PDF). Retrieved August 6, 2023.
  7. ^ Moraga, Cherrie. "La Guera" (PDF). jonescollegeprep.engschool.org.
  8. ^ a b c Moraga, Cherrie (September 1979). "La Guera" (PDF). Retrieved December 22, 2013.
  9. ^ "Cherríe Moraga & "The Welder"". Literature of Working Women. Workingwomen.wikispaces.com. Retrieved December 22, 2013.
  10. ^ Anderson, Kelly (June 6, 2005). "Voices of Feminism Oral History Project" (PDF). Retrieved October 13, 2020.
  11. ^
    S2CID 149030062
    .
  12. ISBN 978-0-89608-195-6
    .
  13. ^ Vasquez, Erin (December 12, 2019). "The Feminist Poetry Movement | The Legacy of This Bridge Called My Back". sites.williams.edu. Retrieved August 6, 2023.
  14. ^ a b "Cherrie Moraga". Voices from the Gaps. University of Minnesota. Retrieved December 22, 2013.
  15. ^ Short, Kayann. "Coming to the Table: The Differential Politics of 'This Bridge Called my Back'", Genders 19 (1994): pp. 4–8.
  16. ^ Yarbro-Bejarano, Yvonne. The Wounded Heart: Writing on Cherríe Moraga. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001.
  17. ^ "United States Artists » Award". Retrieved July 5, 2020.
  18. ^ "Cherrie Moraga - Cherrie Moraga Biography - Poem Hunter". www.poemhunter.com. Retrieved September 2, 2018.
  19. ^
    The Advocate
    . Retrieved December 18, 2011.
  20. ^ "Cherríe Moraga interviewed by Kelly Anderson, June 6-7, 2005 | Smith College Finding Aids". findingaids.smith.edu. Retrieved June 18, 2022.
  21. ^ a b c Moraga, Cherríe (2011). A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness: Writings, 2000–2010. Duke University Press.
  22. ^ Collado, Morgan. (April 13, 2012). "XQsí Magazine — On Actually Keeping Queer Queer: A Response to Cherrie Moraga". Retrieved July 17, 2016.
  23. ^ a b Galarte, Francisco J. 2014. “TRANSGENDER CHICAN@ POETICS: Contesting, Interrogating, and Transforming Chicana/o Studies.” Chicana/Latina Studies 13 (2): 118–39.
  24. ^ "Moraga, Cherríe L.: Heroes and Saints". NYU School of Medicine. February 19, 1998. Retrieved December 22, 2013.
  25. ^ a b VG/Voices from the Gaps Project: Merideth R. Cleary and Erin E. Fergusson
  26. JSTOR 4141827
    .
  27. ^ A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness: Writings, 2000–2010
  28. ^ Manus, Willard (March 13, 1998). "Giving Up the Ghost, About a Chicana Lesbian, Opens Mar. 13 in San Diego". Playbill. Archived from the original on December 24, 2013. Retrieved June 4, 2013.
  29. ^ Shaw, Stephanie (June 11, 1992). "Shadow of a Man/No One Writes to the Colonel". Chicago Reader. Retrieved August 7, 2018.
  30. JSTOR 23014551
    .
  31. ^ Céspedes, Erika Vivianna (January 13, 2012). "Moraga Returns With A New Fire; To Put Things Right Again". Silicon Valley De-Bug. Retrieved December 22, 2013.
  32. ^ "Brava presents the world premiere of The Mathematics of Love". www.brava.org. August 2017. Retrieved September 9, 2017.
  33. ISBN 9780313291791
    . Critics' Circle Award AND best original script AND 1992.

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