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Description
This essay explores the theatre of Cherrie Moraga for her staging of the
Chicana body and feminist politics. Moraga was and is one of the leading
feminist writers and activists associated with developments in Chicana
feminism, and has become a leading practitioner in the field of Chicana
feminist theatre. I argue that Moraga’s early plays feature a number of
radical revisions of patriarchal constructions of Chicana subjectivity in ways
that conflate Chicana feminist practice with the female body. As Moraga
has stated: ‘my writings have always had bodies...and as such are best
rendered through the physical space of staging.