The Wounded Heart

<p>In 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.</p> <p>Yvonne 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 <i>Loving in the War Years Giving Up the Ghost Shadow of a Man Heroes and Saints The Last Generation</i> and <i>Waiting in the Wings</i> 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.</p>