Loving in the War Years

by Moraga, Cherrie L.

• ISBN13: 9780896086265
• ISBN10: 0896086267
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-09-01
• Publisher: South End Pr

Summary

Weaving together poetry and prose, Spanish and English, family history and political theory, Loving in the War Years has been a classic in the feminist and Chicano canon since its 1983 release. This second edition includes four new essays written in a voice nearly a generation older than the first edition. Moraga's posture is now closer to that of a zen warrior than a street-fighter. The war years continue, and loving still resides in the uncensored word. The silenced sentence-lo que nunca paso por sus labios-once spoken, inspires insurrection. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Cherrie L. Moraga is Artist-in-Residence at Stanford University

Table of Contents

Amar Durante Los Anos de Guerra
Looking Back: Foreword to the Second Edition	iii
Introduction to the First Edition	vii
The Voices of the Fallers	xv
What Kind of Lover Have You Made me Mother?
It Is You, My Sister, Who Must be Protected	2	(6)
La Dulce Culpa	8	(4)
Like Family Loving on the Run
Pilgrimage	12	(1)
Later, She Met Joyce	13	(3)
An Open Invitation to a Meal	16	(1)
You Upset the Whole System of This Place	17	(2)
Loving on the Run	19	(4)
Loving in the War Years	23	(2)
The Slow Dance	25	(2)
Fear, A Love Poem	27	(3)
Pesadilla	30	(8)
Passage	38	(2)
View Of Three Bridges
Raw Experience	40	(2)
La Guera	42	(10)
For the Color of My Mother	52	(2)
It's the Poverty	54	(3)
What Does It Take?	57	(2)
Salvation, Jesus, and Suffer	59	(1)
Anatomy Lesson	60	(1)
It Got Her Over	61	(4)
Winter of Depression, 1982	65	(5)
The Road to Recovery
Minds & Heart	70	(1)
No Born-Again Children	71	(2)
November Again	73	(1)
You Call It ``Amputation''	74	(1)
For Amber	75	(2)
Heading East	77	(1)
Modern-Day Hero	78	(1)
The Warbride	79	(3)
Lo Que Nunca Paso por Sus Labios
A Long Line of Vendidas	82	(52)
Riverpoem	134	(1)
Feed the Mexican Back Into Her	135	(2)
And Then There's Us	137	(1)
Querida companera	138	(2)
A Flor de Labios
Canto florido	140	(2)
Looking for the Insatiable Woman	142	(9)
Entre nos	151	(1)
Sour Grapes: The Art of Anger in America	152	(17)
thistle	169	(1)
Out of Our Revolutionary Minds: Toward a Pedagogy of Revolt	170	(21)
La Danzante	191	(4)
The Dying Road to a Nation: A Prayer for a Pueblo	195	(19)
Notes	214	(13)
Index	227	(8)
About The Author	235