{"product_id":"the-wounded-heart-yvonne-yarbro-bejarano-9780292796089","title":"The Wounded Heart: Writing on Cherrie Moraga","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn her work as poet, essayist, editor, dramatist, and public intellectual, Chicana lesbian writer Cherr? Moraga has been extremely influential in current debates on culture and identity as an ongoing, open-ended process. Analyzing the \"in-between\" spaces in Moraga's writing where race, gender, class, and sexuality intermingle, this first book-length study of Moraga's work focuses on her writing of the body and related material practices of sex, desire, and pleasure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYvonne Yarbro-Bejarano divides the book into three sections, which analyze Moraga's writing of the body, her dramaturgy in the context of both dominant and alternative Western theatrical traditions, and her writing of identities and racialized desire. Through close textual readings of \u003ci\u003eLoving in the War Years, Giving Up the Ghost, Shadow of a Man, Heroes and Saints, The Last Generation, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWaiting in the Wings, \u003c\/i\u003e Yarbro-Bejarano contributes to the development of a language to talk about sexuality as potentially empowering, the place of desire within politics, and the intricate workings of racialized desire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0292796080\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780292796089\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 217\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.69lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.98h x 5.42w x 0.52d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2002 pg. 1244","brand":"Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44128443826431,"sku":"9780292796089","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6d2da961-c23f-492f-b134-c50a71c6ca48.jpg?v=1687458712","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-wounded-heart-yvonne-yarbro-bejarano-9780292796089","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}