Biography Of Cherrie Moraga s Loving, The War Years

In her book, Loving in the War Years, Cherrie Moraga narrates her experiences and progresses ideas concerning her existence as a Chicana and a lesbian in American society. She uses variety of literary forms that include short stories, poems, personal reminiscences, and essays. The confusion and personal struggle Moraga recounts speak to the readers as one by the usage of Moraga’s words. Moraga evident usages of her poetries and autographical essays force the reader to understand that her lifestyle has numerous background, and she is not subject to one. Moraga progresses to a level where she is able to join those two worlds into a recurrent strong memoir. Moraga is defining her own blend of two cultures. Moraga dares her readers to†¦show more content†¦Yet Moraga writing style is very difficult to comprehend at first, due to the barrier that she create by using Spanish and English. Moraga’s choice of words force the reader’s flow to be caught off guard and roots it to focus on every details. She blends both languages together that challenge the reader to understand the multiple categories of her. As she write her struggles to define herself in relation to others, (mainly in the Chicana/o community), she also makes it a challenge for the readers to fully access her trials at first read. In the article â€Å"Cherrà ­e Moraga’s Loving in the War Years: lo que nunca pasà ³ por sus labios: Auto-ethnography of the â€Å"New Mestiza,† Cloud states that â€Å"the placement of her own personal experiences within the context of her community enables Moraga to capture successfully the struggle of an entire people for individual and collective autonomy† (86). Clouds argue that Moraga purposely writes for an â€Å"all in one† perspective that can be very challenging for reader to understand. She admits that, â€Å"Loving in the War Years first part speaks to the confusion and personal struggle that characterize d its author’s formative years, no more so than in its poetic parts. Much of the inner turmoil that pervades Moraga’s self-portrayal revolves around the collision course that is the confluence of her two ethnic identities: Chicana and American† (91). With this reason, the only way that Moraga could have directly and explicitly share her