Religious Hybridity And Female Power In Heart Of The Earth: A Popol Vuh Story And Other Theatrical Works By Cherrie Moraga

Resumen del Libro

This dissertation is an account of Chicana writer Cherrie Moragas recurrent themes of la fuerza femenina, the female god, and a hybrid religious influence—Christian, primarily Catholic, and Amerindian, primarily Mesoamerican, beliefs. As shown in this study, Moraga focuses on a woman-centered religiosity which includes the belief in a virgin or La virgen. The religious elements in Moragas works Giving Up the Ghost: Teatro en Two Acts (1986), Heroes and Saints (1994), Shadow of a Man (1994), The Hungry Woman: A Mexican Medea (2001), Watsonville/Circle in the Dirt (2002) are discussed and theorized resulting in parallels to pertinent points of Mujerista, Liberation, and Ecological Theologies.