Moraga, Cherrie

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Moraga, Cherrie (1952– ),born in Whittier, Cal., of Anglo‐Chicana parents and educated at San Francisco State, writes in many genres from a Chicana, feminist, and lesbian perspective. Her own works are Loving in the War Years: Lo que nunca pasó por sus labios (1983), poetry and essays; Cuentos: Stories by Latinas (1983); and Giving Up the Ghost: Teatro in Two Acts (1984), poetic monologues spoken in a mixture of Spanish and English by two women. Waiting in the Wings: Portrait of a Queer Motherhood (1997) is a memoir of the birth of her son. But she is best known for editing, with Gloria Anzaldúa, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (1981), bilingual edition Esta puente, mi espalda: Voces de mujeres tercermundistas en los Estados Unidos (1988).

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