Tantalizing The Border

This paper discusses the correlation between the body and the land in Cherríe Moraga’s The Hungry Woman: The Mexican Medea. Moraga constructs a dystopian world exposing a presumed queer essence within the global market. This reframing sees “queer” as a symptomatic identity shaped by cultural interplays, particularly in ethnicity and economics. Medea’s existence straddles geographical, sexual, and sensory borders, prompting a critical examination of loyalty/betrayal as an epistemological concern. Through the transformation of Mothers via Latin American legends, Moraga advocates for an environmental ethics, challenging the moral nihilism often associated with the Christian interpretation of a child murderer.