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Title: The Last Generation: Prose and Poetry by Cherrie L. Moraga ISBN: 0-89608-466-3 Publisher: South End Press Pub. Date: September, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)
Rating: 3
Summary: A Complex and Problematic Exposition
Comment: 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 Generation, while eagerly awaited, ultimately disappoints, primarily through Moraga's struggled reconstitution of Chicana/o cultural nationalism with a queer bent. The anthology's most touted essay, "Queer Aztlan," is a dangerously authoritarian return of the repressed. Moraga, who challenged the essential Chicano of the sixties, has dressed up that old bugaboo, the essential subject, in queer cloth and calls it une nouveaute. Mais, c'est pas ca. Moraga's Queer Aztlan, with its calls to blood and land, is chillingly reminiscent of mid-twentieth century fascism, a fact that has been overlooked by her historically myopic acolytes. Last Generation is the sepulchre under which a promising talent lies: the promise of Moraga's early visions of a radically transformed Chicanismo. In this volume, she offers us a different image of the transformed writer/activist. From outsider to insider, Moraga can now make the leap into the essentialism she once criticized. At many points polemic, always self-indulgent, Moraga's collection serves as an interesting barometer of the acceptance and mainstreaming of Chicana feminist discourse within the cultural nationalist frame, with a subsequent loss both of rhetorical power and political progressiveness. In light of this, and above all, this work needs to be read critically.
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Title: Loving in the War Years (South End Press Classics Series, Volume 6) by Cherrie L. Moraga, CherrªE Moraga, Cherr'e Moraga ISBN: 0896086267 Publisher: South End Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Gulf Dreams by Emma Perez ISBN: 0943219132 Publisher: Third Woman Press Pub. Date: March, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Rain God by Arturo Islas ISBN: 0380763931 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 01 September, 1991 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Woman Who Owned the Shadows by Paula Gunn Allen ISBN: 1879960184 Publisher: Aunt Lute Books Pub. Date: May, 1984 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Ceremonies: Prose and Poetry by Essex Hemphill, Charles Nero ISBN: 1573441015 Publisher: Cleis Press Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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