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Title: Giving Up the Ghost: Teatro in Two Acts by Cherrie Moraga ISBN: 0-931122-43-0 Publisher: West End Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 1986 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)

Rating: 4
Summary: A bittersweet love story
Comment: It's only upon the third reading--slow and relaxed--of Cherrie Moraga's play that the tea has steeped long enough to reach full strength; my being able to appreciate the play as a bittersweet love story and not as a novelty act by a lesbian Chicana writer.

A teenaged Corky is reluctantly learning what it means to be a woman, the surrender of body to man (as in rape) following the resignation of will. Her evolution is Marisa, in love with the man in Amalia who manifests because Amalia refuses to accept Alejandro's real death. The much older Amalia is fundamentally heterosexual and eventually will forsake Marisa because of her nature. "The dick beats me every time," says Marisa, articulating early in the play her life's challenge in the fields of love.

The play works best if you read it as one long poem.