A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness

Writings, 2000-2010

Cherríe Moraga

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Duke University Press
07 June 2011

Poetry by individual poets; Literary essays; Lesbian studies; Hispanic & Latino studies

A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness features essays and poems by Cherrie 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 Gomez and the poets Alfred Arteaga, Pat Parker, and Audre Lorde; and offers a heartfelt essay about her personal and political relationship with Gloria Anzaldua.

Thirty years after the publication of Anzaldua 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.

By: Cherríe Moraga
Imprint: Duke University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 231mm, Width: 155mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 431g
ISBN: 9780822349778
ISBN 10: 0822349779
Pages: 280
Publication Date: 07 June 2011
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Cherríe L. Moraga is an award-winning playwright, poet, essayist, and activist. She is the author of Loving in the War Years and co-editor, with Gloria Anzaldúa, of This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color. Moraga is a founding member of La RED Xicana Indígena, a network of Xicana activists committed to indigenous political education, spiritual practice, and grassroots organizing. She is an Artist-in-Residence in the Drama Department at Stanford University, where she also teaches in the Program in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity.

Reviews for A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness: Writings, 2000-2010

Cherrie Moraga's A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness is a Hope fulfilled. After the passing of Gloria Anzaldua, Chicana/o studies suffered something like an eclipse of the moon but here comes radical, creative light into our lives and scholarship once more. Moraga's intellectual and emotional courage about sexuality, race, QUEERNESS, and feminist energy shows us that Barack Obama and all Americans also live in the time of Latinos and Xicanas. Underlying these essays is the creative question 'how can this new demography of many colors and genders be cultivated into a new democracy?' David Carrasco, author of Religions of Mesoamerica: Cosmovision and Ceremonial Centers