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<font face="Arial Narrow"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Gill Sans";"> On October 4, 2010</span></font><font
face="Arial Narrow"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Gill Sans";"> playwright, poet,
activist and essayist</span></font><font face="Arial Narrow"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Gill Sans";"> </span></font><font
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style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Gill Sans";">Cherríe L. Moraga</span><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Gill Sans";"> whose plays
and publications have received national recognition will give a
discussion at Hampshire college. This Event will be held in FPH Main
Lecture Hall at 6pm.</span></font><span
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Moraga is the co-editor of <i>This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by
Radical
Women of Color,</i> which won the Before Columbus American Book Award
in 1986.
She is the author of the now classic <i>Loving in the War Years: Lo
Que Nunca
Pasó Por Sus Labios </i>(1983/2003) and<i> The Last Generation </i>(1993),
published by South End Press of Cambridge, MA. </span><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Gill Sans";">and is completing a
memoir on the subject of Mexican American cultural
amnesia entitled <i>Send Them Flying Home: A Geography of
Remembrance. </i>This year Moraga also completed a new collection of
writings -- <i>A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness: A
Decade of Discourse</i></span><span style="font-family: "Gill Sans";">
be published by Duke University Press in Spring 2011.</span><span
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