Originally released in 1981, This Bridge Called My Back is a testimony to women of color feminism as it emerged in the last quarter of the twentieth century. Through personal essays, criticism, interviews, testimonials, poetry, and visual art, the collection explores, as coeditor Cherrie Moraga writes, "the complex confluence of identities — race, class, gender, and sexuality — systemic to women of color oppression and liberation." Reissued here, nearly thirty-five years after its inception, the fourth edition contains an extensive new introduction by Moraga, along with a previously unpublished statement by Gloria Anzaldúa. The new edition also includes visual artists whose work was produced during the same period as Bridge, including Betye Saar, Ana Mendieta, and Yolanda López,as well as current contributor biographies. Bridge continues to reflect an evolving definition of feminism, one that can effectively adapt to, and help inform an understanding of the changing economic and social conditions of women of color in the United States and throughout the world.

This Bridge Called My Back - Writings by Radical Women of Color

De nombreuses poétesses figurent parmi les plus influentes activistes, théoriciennes et porte-paroles des mouvements féministes aux Etats-Unis depuis les années 1970 et 1980. Quel est le lien entre leur création poétique et leur activité militante ? Quelle est la place de l'écriture poétique dans leur oeuvre théorique ? Dans un essai rédigé "dans le feu de l'action" en 1982, la poétesse féministe Jan Clausen raconte [histoire des premières années du "mouvement de la poésie féministe", ses actrices, ses lieux, ses moyens de diffusion, ses questionnements, son évolution. Dans la seconde partie de ce recueil, une anthologie bilingue de poèmes écrits entre 1969 et aujourd'hui montre la pérennité de ce lien entre poésie et féminismes aux Etats-Unis.

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