Reading assignment for Friday April 13, 2012. Your reply (under Comments) is due before class. Your response should demonstrate you’ve done and thought about both of the readings. Be sure to check and make sure your response posts.
Cherríe Moraga, A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness (1-77)
Moraga spends a good deal of her forward and first essay defining both terminology and her place in it. How does her positioning compare to others you’ve read? What terms would you use to define yourself?
In an earlier work, The Last Generation, Moraga wrote “An art that subscribes to integration into mainstream Amerika is not Chicano art.” How are these essays informed by, expand or under cut this theory?
How does Moraga conceive of generations in her writing? How does she connect her parent’s generation to her own? To her children’s? What is your reaction to her agreement with Sherman Alexie’s quote about his wife and children? To her discussions of grief and anger?
What are Moraga’s issues with feminism? What does she take from it? How does it inform her as a mother, a daughter, an artist? What does she call / name the “weapons of the weak”?