{"product_id":"the-wounded-heart-writing-on-cherrie-moraga-paperback-softback-9780292796089","title":"The Wounded Heart; Writing on Cherríe Moraga (Paperback \/ softback) 9780292796089","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Wounded Heart\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eWriting on Cherríe Moraga\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eYvonne Yarbro-Bejarano (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780292796089, University of Texas Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 November 2001\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e217 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.2 cm, 0.454 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYvonne 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 \u003ci\u003eLoving in the War Years, Giving Up the Ghost, Shadow of a Man, Heroes and Saints, The Last Generation,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWaiting in the Wings,\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTitle Abbreviations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction: Chicana Lesbian Writing and the Intersection of Cultural and Critical Practices\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart I: The Body \u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e1. (De)constructing the Lesbian Body\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart II: The Plays \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e2. \u003ci\u003eGiving Up the Ghost:\u003c\/i\u003e Feminist Theory and the Staging of Mestiza Desire\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e3. \u003ci\u003eShadow of a Man:\u003c\/i\u003e Touching the Wound in Order to Heal\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e4. \"\u003cbr\u003eThe Miracle People\"\u003cbr\u003e: \u003ci\u003eHeroes and Saints\u003c\/i\u003e and Contemporary Chicano Theater\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePart III: The Written Identity \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e5. \"\u003cbr\u003eI Long to Enter You Like a Temple\"\u003cbr\u003e: Sex, Salvation, and Shamanism\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e6. Whiteness in \u003ci\u003eThe Last Generation:\u003c\/i\u003e The Nation, the \"\u003cbr\u003eHalf-breed,\"\u003cbr\u003e and the Queer\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e7. Writing the Lesbian Mother: \"\u003cbr\u003eWaiting in the Wings\"\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAppendix: A Chronology of Major Works by CherrÍ\u003cbr\u003ee Moraga\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWorks Cited\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52530888376600,"sku":"9780292796089","price":18.35,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-wounded-heart-writing-on-cherrie-moraga-paperback-softback-9780292796089","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}