In the poem "Loving in the War Years," are the "war years" supposed to be a reference to the narrator/Moraga's life in general?

In
"Loving in the War Years," Cherrie Moraga uses war years as a conceit, or extended ,
through the entire poem. The ongoing fight in which the speaker and other queer and female
people involved is a kind of resistance to oppression, which they must fight in part by taking
a stand against our enemy, fear; she terms their attitudes a war time morality. In the first
four lines, the speaker establishes a directbetween their fight and World War Two: she mentions
Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, who play the characters Rick and Ilsa in the film
Casablanca, much of which takes places in the nightclub, or piano bar,
of which Rick is the proprietor. During the Second World War, one primary aspect of the
resistance was the French actions against the Nazis, who had taken over France. This
activity...

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