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- Title
"A Kind of Queer Balance": Cherríe Moraga's Aztlán.
- Authors
Tatonetti, Lisa
- Abstract
A constant in Chicana author Cherríe Moraga' s critical analyses over the past twenty years has been her exploration of the maternal bond, which her first text, "Loving in the War Years: Lo Que Nunca Pasó Por Sus Labios" (1983), simultaneously constructs as the core of the nuclear family, the larger tie to Chicana community, and the place of origin for Moraga's lesbian sexuality. Since Moraga's texts are all undoubtedly worth further consideration, the lack of critical attention that her later publications have received is somewhat troubling. As critics have shown, "Loving in the War Years" is the mother's story, describing Moraga's trajectory away from and then back to the Chicana community and ending with Moraga's solid identification as a Chicana lesbian. In "Loving in the War Years," rather than rejecting Chicano culture because of its sometimes heterosexist and homophobic traditions. Moraga finds a way back to it through her lesbian sexuality, showing her sexuality to be not a threat, but the foundation of her cultural identification.
- Subjects
UNITED States; LOVING in the War Years (Book); MORAGA, Cherrie, 1952-; AUTHORS; LESBIANS; MEXICAN American LGBTQ+ people; CULTURAL identity
- Publication
MELUS, 2004, Vol 29, Issue 2, p227
- ISSN
0163-755X
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.2307/4141827