In Gods Go Begging, Alfredo Vea narrates the America’s most contested war, the fight against the communist regime in Vietnam, through the experiences of a solider belonging to the marginalized class and two women who lost their husbands in the … Continue reading
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Within Gods Go Begging, one of the first scenes we see is the image of two dead bodies wrapped around one another. We later learn that these deaths were due to a senseless killing. Shortly after, we enter Jesse’s life, … Continue reading
Vietnam can be seen as a sort of gothic space in the novel “Gods Go Begging.” It is a place where a diverse U.S. army is forced to fight together. The army includes African Americans, Native Americans and Mexicans fighting … Continue reading
Hills in “Gods Go Begging” often are depressing places of despair, horror and desperation. The key scene where Jesse Pasadobles gets caught in a gunfight in Vietnam takes place on a hill and it is on that hill that … Continue reading
Without a doubt, what struck me the most about The Hungry Woman was the depiction of sexual orientation and just how much it resembles the way it is not only viewed today but even treated. While there is no “Banished … Continue reading
“Indeed, Moraga allows her play to speak back to the many versions of the tale that only replicate false notions that a woman would sacrifice a child to simply spite a partner: ‘The official version was a lie…Who would kill … Continue reading
Julia Kristeva defines the abject as, “the human reaction (horror, vomit) to a threatened breakdown in meaning caused by the loss of the distinction between subject and object or between self and other. The primary example for what … Continue reading
The Hungry Woman expresses Chicano sentiments along with certain gothic elements. At first when looking at the character lists, I noticed similarities with characters in Bless Me, Ultima. Medea is listed as a curandera similar to Ultima, Chac-mool, a young … Continue reading
In “The Hungry Woman”, author Cherrie Moraga daringly explores the classical story of Medea through the devastating experiences of a Chicana activist. Although set in different scenarios, the chicana version borrows greatly from Euripides’ play and manages to truthfully depict … Continue reading
One of elements that I found intriguing about this play was how the presence of corn was interwoven in the fabric of the story. We see it right away in the first scene of the play when Luna and Chac-Mool … Continue reading