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Cherríe L. Moraga
30 books365 followersCherríe Lawrence Moraga is a Chicana writer, feminist activist, poet, essayist, and playwright. She is part of the faculty at Stanford University in the Department of Drama and Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity. Her works explore the ways in which gender, sexuality and race intersect in the lives of women of color.
Moraga was one of the few writers to write and introduce the theory on Chicana lesbianism. Her interests include the intersections of gender, sexuality, and race, particularly in cultural production by women of color. There are not many women of color writing about issues that queer women of color face today: therefore, her work is very notable and important to the new generations. In the 1980s her works started to be published. Since she is one of the first and few Chicana/Lesbian writers of our time, she set the stage for younger generations of other minority writers and activists.
Moraga has taught courses in dramatic arts and writing at various universities across the United States and is currently an artist in residence at Stanford University. Her play, Watsonville: Some Place Not Here, performed at the Brava Theatre Company of San Francisco in May, 1996, won the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Fund for New American Plays Award, from the Kennedy center for the Performing Arts. Barbara Smith, Audre Lorde and Moraga started Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press in 1983, a group which did not discriminate against homosexuality, class, or race. it is the first publisher dedicated to the writing of women of color in the United States.
Moraga is currently involved in a Theatre communications group and was the recipient of the NEA Theatre Playwriting Fellowship Award Her plays and publications have won and received national recognition including a TCG Theatre Residency Grant, a National Endowment for the art fellowship for play writing and two Fund for New American Plays Awards in 1993. She was awarded the United States artist Rockefeller Fellowship for literature in 2007.In 2008 she won a Creative Work Fund Award. The following year, in 2009 she received a Gerbode-Hewlett foundation grant for play writing.
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Moraga was one of the few writers to write and introduce the theory on Chicana lesbianism. Her interests include the intersections of gender, sexuality, and race, particularly in cultural production by women of color. There are not many women of color writing about issues that queer women of color face today: therefore, her work is very notable and important to the new generations. In the 1980s her works started to be published. Since she is one of the first and few Chicana/Lesbian writers of our time, she set the stage for younger generations of other minority writers and activists.
Moraga has taught courses in dramatic arts and writing at various universities across the United States and is currently an artist in residence at Stanford University. Her play, Watsonville: Some Place Not Here, performed at the Brava Theatre Company of San Francisco in May, 1996, won the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Fund for New American Plays Award, from the Kennedy center for the Performing Arts. Barbara Smith, Audre Lorde and Moraga started Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press in 1983, a group which did not discriminate against homosexuality, class, or race. it is the first publisher dedicated to the writing of women of color in the United States.
Moraga is currently involved in a Theatre communications group and was the recipient of the NEA Theatre Playwriting Fellowship Award Her plays and publications have won and received national recognition including a TCG Theatre Residency Grant, a National Endowment for the art fellowship for play writing and two Fund for New American Plays Awards in 1993. She was awarded the United States artist Rockefeller Fellowship for literature in 2007.In 2008 she won a Creative Work Fund Award. The following year, in 2009 she received a Gerbode-Hewlett foundation grant for play writing.
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June 18, 2018
Lupe is a young girl in the seventies whose family is on the brink of falling apart. Her older sister, Leticia, is beginning college and protests the war, defends women’s rights and bumps up against her traditional mother’s understanding of what it means to be a woman.
Lupe’s father is an alcoholic and doesn’t do much for his family. He is stuck in a moment that happened years ago that involved his compadre. He taunts his wife with the memory and life becomes tense and difficult for the daughters to navigate.
There are many moments that feel honest for someone that grew up in a Latino household. There is the tradition that battles the newer generation’s assimilation into American culture. But I don’t think that is what the play is really about. It is a look at the women in the family and how the men, who remain on the periphery, mold the women’s roles in the family and affect their place in the larger world.
Lupe’s father is an alcoholic and doesn’t do much for his family. He is stuck in a moment that happened years ago that involved his compadre. He taunts his wife with the memory and life becomes tense and difficult for the daughters to navigate.
There are many moments that feel honest for someone that grew up in a Latino household. There is the tradition that battles the newer generation’s assimilation into American culture. But I don’t think that is what the play is really about. It is a look at the women in the family and how the men, who remain on the periphery, mold the women’s roles in the family and affect their place in the larger world.
February 13, 2025
Just, very good! Really excited to discuss this in class tomorrow. I recommend if you would like to read Chicana/Latina theater.
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November 14, 2020
¿Mi cerebro está lento o esta obra no lleva a ningún lado?
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