Weaving together poetry and prose, Spanish and English, family history and political theory, Loving in the War Years has been a classic in the feminist and Chicano canon since its 1983 release. This new edition—including a new introduction and three new essays—remains a testament of Moraga's coming-of-age as a Chicana and a lesbian at a time when the political merging of those two identities was severely censured.\ Drawing on the Mexican legacy of Malinche, the symbolic mother of the first...
A new edition of Moraga's seminal work on identity, sexuality, history, and the politics of Chicana feminism.