Resources
Selected Bibliography
Works that contain substantive discussion of Moraga Non-fiction and/or Drama:
Alexander, Jacqui M . Pedagogies of Crossing: Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005.
Arrizón, Alicia. Latina Performance: Traversing the Stage. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999.
---------------------. Queering Mestizaje: Transculturation and Performance. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2006.
Arteaga, Alfred. Chicano Poetics: Heterotexts and Hybridities. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Huerta, Jorge. Chicano Drama: Performance, Society and Myth. Cambridge University Press, 2000.
Moya, Paula. Learning from Experience: Minority Identities, Multicultural Struggles. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.
---------------------. "Postmodernism, 'Realism,' and the Politics of Identity: Cherríe Moraga and Chicana Feminism," Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures, eds. M. Jacqui Alexander and Chandra Talpade Mohanty, New York: Routledge, 1997. 125-50, 379-84.
Pérez, Laura. "Spirit Glyphs: Reimagining Art and Artist in the Work of Chicana Tlamatinime" in Modern Fiction Studies.Volume 44, number 1, Spring 1998.
Sandoval-Sánchez, Alberto and Nancy Saporta Sternbach. Stages of Life: Transcultural Performance and Identity in U.S. Latina Theater. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2001.
Soto, Sandra K. "Cherrie Moraga's Going Brown - 'Reading Like a Queer'" in GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 11.2 (2005) 237-263
Taylor, Diana and Juan Villegas, eds. Negotiating Performance. Gender, Sexuality, and Theatericality in Latin/o America. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1994.
______________. The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Americas.< Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2003.
Torres, Lourdes and Immaculada Pertusa. Tortilleras: Hispanic and U.S. Latina Lesbian Expression. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2003.
Yarbro-Bejarano, Yvonne. The Wounded Heart: Writing on Cherríe Moraga. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001.
Ybarra, Patricia. "The Revolution Fails Here -- Cherríe Moraga's The Hungry Woman as a Mexican Medea in Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies. 33:1, Spring 2008.
The Cherríe Moraga Papers (1970 –1996)
A personal/professional archive of manuscripts and correspondence, housed in the Mexican American Special Collections Division of the Stanford University Libraries.
Manuscripts Division, Stanford University
Department of Special Collections, Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, California 94305-6004
Phone: (650) 723-1212
Fax: (650) 725-1146
The Cherríe Moraga Papers document the life work of an important lesbian Chicana poet, essayist, and playwright of the 20th century. The papers include Moraga's personal and professional correspondence, journals, collected Feminist and Women of Color serials, drafts, manuscripts and galleys, and final publications of her writings, as well as important essays and reviews of her work.
Note: Mostly open for research; material must be requested at least 36 hours in advance of intended use. Series 3 (journals), series 4a (personal correspondence), portions of series 2 (manuscripts by Moraga), and series 6 (manuscripts by others) are closed until Moraga's death. In addition, selected items have been restricted and removed to parallel files.
Summary: Manuscripts, correspondence, production files, clippings, photographs, posters, and video.
Interviews/Videos
NPR Latino USA with María Hinojosa
The Enduring Feminist Widsomof Cherríe Moraga/
Sabiduría: Staying True to Yourself
Makers. The Largest Video Collection of Women’s Stories.
Cherrie Moraga In Her Own Words
(A 4-minute video + See “More from Cherrie Moraga” in several short film strip segments that follow.)
