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Informationen zum Autor Cherríe L. Moraga Klappentext Collection of essays and poems that address the challenges of being a Chicana, a lesbian, and a feminist in the changing world of the twenty-first century. Zusammenfassung Collection of essays and poems that address the challenges of being a Chicana! a lesbian! and a feminist in the changing world of the twenty-first century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Drawings by Celia Herrera Rodríguez xiii Prólogo: A Living Codex xv Agradecimentos xix A Xicana Lexicon xxi One. Existo Yo A XicanaDyke Codex of Changing Consciousness 3 From Inside the First World: On 9/11 and Women-of-Color Feminism 18 An Irrevocable Promise: Staging the Story Xicana 34 Two. The Warring Inside What Is Left of Us 49 MeXicana Blues 51 Weapons of the Weak: On Fear and Political Resistance 54 California Dreaming 73 Cuento Xicano 76 Indígena as Scribe: The (W)rite to Remember 79 The Altar of My Undoing 97 Three. Salt of the Earth Aguas Sagradas 105 And It Is All These Things That Are Our Grief: Eulogy for Marsha Gómez 107 Poetry of Heroism: A Tribute to Audre Lorde and Pat Parker 111 The Salt That Cures: Remembering Gloria Anzaldúa 116 Four. The Price of Beans South Central Farmers 133 The Other Face of (Im)migration: In Conversation with West Asian Feminists 135 Floricanto 146 Modern-Day Malinches 148 What's Race Gotta Do With It? On the Election of Barack Obama 151 This Benighted Nation We Name Home: On the Fortieth Anniversary of Ethnic Studies 163 Still Loving in the (Still) War Years: On Keeping Queer Queer 175 Epílogo: Xicana Mind, Beginner Mind 193 Appendix: Sola, Pero Bien Acompañada: The Art of Celia Herrera Rodríguez 201 Notes 209 Bibliography 229 Index 237