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Cherríe L. Moraga

チェリー・モラガ

Cherrie Moraga

プロフィール

性別
女性
生誕
1952-09-25 （Los Angeles, California, United States）
国籍
United States
言語
English, Spanish
居住地歴
Los Angeles (birth — early life) → San Francisco (moved 1977) → Santa Barbara (professor / residence)

経歴

職業
playwright, writer, poet, activist, distinguished professor
活動期間
1974年〜
所属
University of California, Santa Barbara (Distinguished Professor, Department of English), Stanford University (artist in residence), Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press (founding member), Las Maestras Center (co-founder)
所属団体
La Red Xicana Indígena (founding member), Various literary and academic organizations
影響を受けた人物
Gloria Anzaldúa, Audre Lorde, women-of-color feminists and theorists
影響を与えた人物
Ana Castillo, Norma Alarcón, younger Chicana/Latina writers and queer studies scholars

学歴

Immaculate Heart College
English
学位: B.A.
期間: 〜1974
卒業年: 1974
国: United States
Earned a bachelor's degree in English
San Francisco State University
Feminist Writings (graduate)
学位: M.A.
期間: 〜1980
卒業年: 1980
国: United States
Master's degree in Feminist Writings

受賞歴

American Book Award
1986
対象作品: This Bridge Called My Back (co-edited)
主催: Before Columbus Foundation
結果: 受賞
Critics' Circle Award (Best Original Script)
1992
対象作品: Heroes and Saints
主催: Critics' Circle
結果: 受賞
PEN West Literary Award (Drama)
1993
対象作品: For drama (1993)
主催: PEN West
結果: 受賞
United States Artists Rockefeller Fellowship for Literature
2007
主催: United States Artists
結果: 受賞
Brudner Prize
2013
主催: Yale University (Brudner Prize, LGBT Studies)
結果: 受賞
National Endowment for the Arts Theater Playwrights' Fellowship
1993
主催: National Endowment for the Arts
結果: 受賞
Fund for New American Plays Award
1996
対象作品: Watsonville: Some Place Not Here
主催: Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
結果: 受賞

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

This Bridge Called My Back (co-edited)

1981年 essay anthology

An anthology of writings by radical women of color addressing intersections of race, gender, and sexuality; foundational in Chicana feminism and queer studies.

feminismracesexualitywomen of color's voices
翻訳
  • Spanish-language edition (Esta puente, mi espalda) adaptation

Loving in the War Years

1983年 essays / memoir

A collection of essays exploring Moraga's Chicana and lesbian identities, blending personal memoir with political critique.

identityfamilylesbianismintersectionality

Watsonville: Some Place Not Here

1996年 play / theatre

A play addressing immigration, labor, and community; premiered at Brava Theater and won the Kennedy Center's Fund for New American Plays award.

immigrationlabor rightscommunity
映像化・舞台化
  • [theatre] Watsonville: Some Place Not Here (stage production) (1996)

The Hungry Woman: A Mexican Medea

2001年 play

A play that reworks Mexican myth (Popol Vuh) and Medea motifs to interrogate gender, ethnicity, and political struggles.

myth reinterpretationgenderIndigenous narratives

Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir

2019年 memoir

A memoir centered on Moraga's relationship with her mother and family history as Mexican Americans, exploring memory, heritage, and immigration.

memoryfamily historyimmigrant experience

全著作

  • This Bridge Called My Back (co-edited)
  • Loving in the War Years
  • Cuentos: Stories By Latinas (co-edited)
  • Esta puente, mi espalda (Spanish edition, co-edited)
  • The Last Generation: Prose and Poetry
  • Heroes and Saints and Other Plays
  • Waiting in the Wings: Portrait of a Queer Motherhood
  • The Hungry Woman: A Mexican Medea & The Heart of the Earth: A Popol Vuh Story
  • Watsonville: Some Place Not Here & Circle in the Dirt
  • A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness: Writings, 2000-2010
  • Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir

翻案

  • Stage productions (multiple works)

作品の翻訳

  • This Bridge Called My Back → Esta puente, mi espalda (Spanish translation/adaptation)

作風・主題

文体
essayistic hybrid of theory and personal narrativepolitically engaged, theory-informed prosemulti-voiced, community-focused dramatic writing
頻出モチーフ
intersectionality (race, gender, class)motherhood and familyreworking Indigenous myths and narrativesexperiences of queerness

評価・遺産

A pioneering Chicana feminist and queer writer-activist whose anthologies and personal writings have deeply influenced interdisciplinary scholarship and grassroots movements; also acclaimed as a playwright.

関連学会

  • National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies (NACCS)

資料所蔵先

  • Sophia Smith Collection (Voices of Feminism Oral History Project)
  • University of California, Santa Barbara archives (related collections)

大衆文化への影響

  • This Bridge Called My Back remains a canonical text in feminist and queer studies

引用

  • My lesbianism is the avenue through which I have learned the most about silence and oppression, and it continues to be the most tactile reminder to me that we are not free human beings.
    出典: Essay "La Guera" and Loving in the War Years (1979年)

豆知識

  • Born with the surname Lawrence but later took Moraga to identify more with her mother's side.
  • Co-edited This Bridge Called My Back with Gloria Anzaldúa; the book won an American Book Award in 1986.
  • Was a founding member of Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press.
  • Co-founded Las Maestras Center with Celia Herrera Rodríguez in 2017.
  • Openly lesbian and a prominent figure in queer and Chicana feminist movements.