Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir

"This memoir's beauty is in its fierce intimacy." --Roy Hoffman, The New York Times Book Review One of Literary Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2019 From the celebrated editor of This Bridge Called My Back, Cherríe Moraga charts her own coming-of-age alongside her mother’s decline, and also tells the larger story of the Mexican American diaspora. Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir is, at its core, a mother-daughter story. The mother, Elvira, was hired out as a child, along with her siblings, by their own father to pick cotton in California’s Imperial Valley. The daughter, Cherríe Moraga, is a brilliant, pioneering, queer Latina feminist. The story of these two women, and of their people, is woven together in an intimate memoir of critical reflection and deep personal revelation.
 As a young woman, Elvira left California to work as a cigarette girl in glamorous late-1920s Tijuana, where an ambiguous relationship with a wealthy white man taught her life lessons about power, sex, and opportunity. As Moraga charts her mother’s journey―from impressionable young girl to battle-tested matriarch to, later on, an old woman suffering under the yoke of Alzheimer’s―she traces her own self-discovery of her gender-queer body and Lesbian identity, as well as her passion for activism and the history of her pueblo. As her mother’s memory fails, Moraga is driven to unearth forgotten remnants of a U.S. Mexican diaspora, its indigenous origins, and an American story of cultural loss.
Poetically wrought and filled with insight into intergenerational trauma, Native Country of the Heart is a reckoning with white American history and a piercing love letter from a fearless daughter to the mother she will never lose.

Biographies & Memoirs

Moraga, Cherríe

Community & Culture

Farrar. Straus and Giroux

Last Generation: Prose And Poetry

Literature & Fiction

United States

Canadian Scholars Pr

Poems, stories, and essays describe the political and personal implications of being a gay chicana in modern America

Loving in the War Years: Lo que nunca pas por sus labios

South End Press

The Last Generation: Prose and Poetry

A classic work by award-winning author Cherríe Moraga, The Last Generation is an electric mix of prose and poetry that continues conversations started in the beloved books This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color and Loving in the War Years: Lo que nunca pasó por sus labios. Highly politicized and intensely personal, Moraga's work dares to imagine the mythic nation Queer Atzlán: a brave vision for gender, sexuality, race, art, nationalism, and the politics of liberation. Moraga crosses literary genres to ruminate on the paradox of being at once inside and outside the myriad struggles and communities—interlocking and often at odds—that spur her art and activism. Speaking from her experience as a queer Chicana activist/artist, Moraga is committed to building a broad politic of solidarity and justice for all dispossessed people. With fierce honesty and incisive political analysis, Moraga offers more than an inspiring portrait of the struggle of an activist artist—she helps us see the world as it is and dream it up anew.

A classic work by award-winning author Cherríe Moraga, The Last Generation is an electric mix of prose and poetry that continues conversations started in the beloved books This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color and Loving in the War Years: Lo que nunca pasó por sus labios. Highly politicized and intensely personal, Moraga's work dares to imagine the mythic nation Queer Atzlán: a brave vision for gender, sexuality, race, art, nationalism, and the politics of liberation. Moraga crosses literary genres to ruminate on the paradox of being at once inside and outside the myriad struggles and communities?interlocking and often at odds?that spur her art and activism. Speaking from her experience as a queer Chicana activist/artist, Moraga is committed to building a broad politic of solidarity and justice for all dispossessed people. With fierce honesty and incisive political analysis, Moraga offers more than an inspiring portrait of the struggle of an activist artist?she helps us see the world as it is and dream it up anew.

A new edition of Moraga's seminal work on identity, sexuality, history, and the politics of Chicana feminism.

Loving in the War Years

Moraga, Cherr'e

Antología de ensayos, narraciones personales y poemas escritos por mujeres de ascendencia chicana, latina, indígena, asiática y africana --en suma, mujeres de color-- que viven en los Estados Unidos. Esta puente, mi espalda es la traducción y adaptación al español de la antología This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color que redactaron y recopilaron Cherríe Moraga y Gloria Anzaldúa, chicanas geniales e innovadoras de familias humildes. Las múltiples autoras de Esta puente, mi espalda manifiestan una amplia variedad de perspectivas culturales y planteamientos de feminismo que van mucho más allá de las preocupaciones de feministas de las clases profesionales y adineradas. 
 Las redactoras chicanas de Esta puente, mi espalda han reavivado la forma femenina de puente que se vio en la poesía del castellano antiguo. 
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 Esta puente, mi espalda is the Spanish translation of This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, edited by Cherríe Moraga with translations by Ana Castillo and Norma Alarcón. Adapted for a Chicana and Latina readership, Esta puente, mi espalda contains personal narratives, essays, and poems by radical women of color in the U.S. -- including Barbara Smith, Gloria Anzaldúa, Chrystos, Nellie Wong, Aurora Levins Morales, and many more. 
 The Chicana editors of Esta puente, mi espalda have rekindled the feminine form of puente (bridge) that existed poetically in old Spanish.

Esta Puente, Mi Espalda: Voces De Mujeres Tercermundistas En Los Estados Unidos

Castillo, Ana

Morago, Cherrie

Ism Pr

Antología de ensayos, narraciones personales y poemas escritos por mujeres de ascendencia chicana, latina, indígena, asiática y africana --en suma, mujeres de color-- que viven en los Estados Unidos. Esta puente, mi espalda es la traducción y adaptación al español de la antología This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color que redactaron y recopilaron Cherríe Moraga y Gloria Anzaldúa, chicanas geniales e innovadoras de familias humildes. Las múltiples autoras de Esta puente, mi espalda manifiestan una amplia variedad de perspectivas culturales y planteamientos de feminismo que van mucho más allá de las preocupaciones de feministas de las clases profesionales y adineradas. 
 Las redactoras chicanas de Esta puente, mi espalda han reavivado la forma femenina de puente que se vio en la poesía del castellano antiguo. ************************************************************ 
 Esta puente, mi espalda is the Spanish translation of This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, edited by Cherríe Moraga with translations by Ana Castillo and Norma Alarcón. Adapted for a Chicana and Latina readership, Esta puente, mi espalda contains personal narratives, essays, and poems by radical women of color in the U.S. -- including Barbara Smith, Gloria Anzaldúa, Chrystos, Nellie Wong, Aurora Levins Morales, and many more. 
 The Chicana editors of Esta puente, mi espalda have rekindled the feminine form of puente (bridge) that existed poetically in old Spanish.

Esta Puente, Mi Espalda: Voces De Mujeres Tercermundisats En Los Estados Unidos (Spanish and English Edition)

Giving Up the Ghost: Teatro in Two Acts

Giving Up the Ghost: Teatro in Two Acts

Small Pr Distribution

Heroes and Saints &amp; Other Plays is Chicana playwright Cherrí¬e Moraga's premiere collection of theatre. Included are: Shadow of a Man, winner of the 1990 Fund for New American Plays Award; Heroes and Saints, winner of the Dramalogue, the PEN West, and the Critics Circle awards, as well as the Will Glickman Prize for Best Play of 1992; and Giving Up the Ghost, first published by West End Press in 1986, and now presented here in its revised stage version.

Heroes and Saints and Other Plays

Dramas & Plays

West End Press

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Books by Moraga, Cherríe

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Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir

Last Generation: Prose And Poetry

Loving in the War Years: Lo que nunca pas por sus labios

The Last Generation: Prose and Poetry

The Last Generation: Prose and Poetry

Loving in the War Years

Esta Puente, Mi Espalda: Voces De Mujeres Tercermundistas En Los Estados Unidos

Esta Puente, Mi Espalda: Voces De Mujeres Tercermundisats En Los Estados Unidos (Spanish and English Edition)

Giving Up the Ghost: Teatro in Two Acts

Heroes and Saints and Other Plays