SOURCE: "All in the Familia," in Women's Review of Books, Vol. XI, No. 4, January 1994, p. 22.

In the following review, Wheatwind praises Moraga's commitment to Chicano culture and feminist ideals as reflected in The Last Generation.

The Last Generation, a comprehensive new collection of prose and poetry by Cherríe Moraga, embraces a myriad forms and audiences. It includes personal narratives, insightful dreams, poetic forays into the author's past, political visions of her community's future, and prose transliterations of talks and presentations given at various conferences and symposia.

Just as the themes interweave like common threads in the five different sections of the book—"New Mexican Confession," "War Cry," "La Fuerza Feminina," "The Breakdown of the Bicultural Mind" and "The Last Generation"—each section contains a mix of the writing styles that intimate the personal (poetry, letters and personal narrative) and demand the political (essays which call us to...