![]() ![]() In the 1990s, Levins Morales turned her attention to the construction of Latina feminist histories. Critics celebrated the hybridity of the text's voices, genres, and identities. Getting Home Alive complicates unified notions of Latina identity by oscillating between the voices of mother and daughter, the cultural traditions of Puerto Rico and Ashkenazi Jews, and the locations of island and mainland. ![]() She was one of the original contributors to This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (first published by Gloria AnzaldĂșa and CherrĂe Moraga in 1981) her other acclaimed work from the 1980s is the mixed-genre collection Getting Home Alive (1986), which she coauthored with her mother, Rosario Morales. Levins Morales was prominent among the first generation of US feminist of color writers in the 1980s her work today is just as groundbreaking but differently so. ![]() On 8 October 2015, I interviewed Aurora Levins Morales in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ![]()
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