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WatsonvilleSome Place Not Here andCircle in the DirtEl Pueblo de East Palo AltoCherríe MoragaThis volume of plays confronts the changing California landscape of the 1990s, as anti-immigration, anti-youth, and English Only legislation impacts already impoverished farmworker towns and urban communities. Both plays were developed through interviews conducted with residents in the towns of Watsonville and East Palo Alto. But they are more than reports of the times. In vividly realized drama, Moraga shows the communities mounting their own bold resistance to cultural domination and the threat of economic enslavement. The indigenous and feminist consciousness of the two communities brings them together to struggle against their oppressors, from within and without. 6 x 9 inches • 165 pages • ISBN 0-9705344-5-0 • $15.95 |
Cherríe Moraga
Cherríe Moraga grew up during the emergence of Chicano/a awareness in California in the 1960s. Nationally recognized as a poet, dramatist, and essayist, Moraga was coeditor of the groundbreaking feminist anthology This Bridge Called My Back in 1983. American Theatre has described her as “on the cutting edge . . . carv[ing] out the future of Chicano/a Theatre.” West End Press is proud to have published seven of her plays in four editions, beginning with Giving Up the Ghost in 1987 and culminating in Hungry Woman and Watsonville / Circle in the Dirt in 2002.  |