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Plays
The Mathematics of Love
"Waiting for Da God" is a three-character one-act play which explores the loss of memory and love with a kind of bitter sweet humor centering on the character of Peaches an elder Mexican Woman with dimentia.
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Who
Killed Yolanda Saldívar?
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The
Hungry Woman: A Mexican Medea
In
"The Hungry Woman," an apocalyptic play written at the end of the
millennium, Moraga uses mythology and an intimate realism to describe
the embattled position of Chicanos and Chicanas, not only in the
United States but in relation to each other. Drawing from the Greek
Medea and the Mexican myth of La Llorona, she portrays a woman gone mad
between her longing for another woman and for the Indian nation
which is denied her.
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⇒ The Hungry Woman:
The Hungry Woman: A Mexican Medea and Heart of the Earth: A Popul
Vuh Story, Cherríe Moraga
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Watsonville:
Some Place Not Here
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Watsonville/A Circle
in the Dirt: Watsonville: Some Place Not Here and A Circle in
the Dirt: El Pueblo de East Palo Alto,
Cherríe Moraga
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A
Circle in the Dirt: El Puebol de East Palo Alto
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in the Dirt: Watsonville: Some Place Not Here and A Circle in
the Dirt: El Pueblo de East Palo Alto,
Cherríe Moraga
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Heart
of the Earth: A Popol Vuh Story
In
Heart of the Earth, a feminist revisioning of the Quiché
Maya Popul Vuh story, Moraga creates an allegory for contemporary
Chicanismo in which the enemy is white, patriarchal, and greedy
for hearts, both female and fecund. Through humor and inventive
tale twisting, Moraga brings her vatos locos home from the deadly
underworld to reveal that the real power of creation is found in
the masa Grandma is grinding up in her metate. The script, a collaboration
with master puppet maker Ralph Lee, was created for the premiere
production of the play at The Public Theater in New York in 1994.
In an afterword to this edition, Moraga comments on her concerns
about nationhood, indigenism, queer sexuality, and gender information.
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in:
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The Hungry Woman: The Hungry
Woman: A Mexican Medea and Heart of the Earth: A Popul Vuh Story,
Cherríe Moraga
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Heroes
and Saints
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Heroes and Saints
& Other Plays, Cherríe
Moraga
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Shadow
of a Man
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Heroes and Saints
& Other Plays, Cherríe
Moraga
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Coatlicue's
Call/ El llamado de Coatlicue
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Giving
Up the Ghost
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Heroes and Saints
& Other Plays, Cherríe
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