Judith Ortiz Cofer
Autor(a) de An Island Like You: Stories of the Barrio
About the Author
Judith Ortiz Cofer was born in Puerto Rico in 1952. She was a Franklin Professor of English and creative writing at the University of Georgia from 1984 until she retired in 2013. She was also a poet and author. Her collections of poetry include Terms of Survival, Reaching for the Mainland, and A mostrar mais Love Story Beginning in Spanish: Poems. Her novels include Call Me Maria, The Meaning of Consuelo, and The Line of the Sun. She won an O. Henry Prize for the story A Latin Deli, which appeared in The Latin Deli: Prose and Poetry. Her other books include Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood, An Island Like You: Stories of the Barrio, If I Could Fly, and Woman in Front of the Sun: On Becoming a Writer. She died from cancer on December 30, 2016 at the age of 64. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Obras por Judith Ortiz Cofer
Silent Dancing {essay} 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Race, Class, and Gender in the United States: An Integrated Study (1992) — Contribuidor, algumas edições — 514 exemplares
Growing Up Ethnic in America: Contemporary Fiction About Learning to Be American (1999) — Contribuidor — 102 exemplares
Sudden Fiction Latino: Short-Short Stories from the United States and Latin America (2010) — Contribuidor — 69 exemplares
Daughters of the Fifth Sun: A Collection of Latina Fiction and Poetry (1995) — Contribuidor — 53 exemplares
Currents from the Dancing River: Contemporary Latino Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry (1994) — Contribuidor — 48 exemplares
The Other Side of Heaven: Post-War Fiction by Vietnamese and American Writers (1995) — Contribuidor — 40 exemplares
Becoming American: Personal Essays By First Generation Immigrant Women (2000) — Contribuidor — 26 exemplares
Sweet Nothings: An Anthology of Rock and Roll in American Poetry (1994) — Contribuidor — 21 exemplares
Touching the Fire: Fifteen Poets of Today's Latino Renaissance (1998) — Contribuidor — 20 exemplares
Family Trouble: Memoirists on the Hazards and Rewards of Revealing Family (2013) — Contribuidor — 19 exemplares
When She Named Fire: An Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by American Women (1900) — Contribuidor — 11 exemplares
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Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto… por Judith Ortiz Cofer
Individually, these are excellent essays. The imagery and specificity are strong and she does a good job conveying her point of view at different ages. I really liked the cuentos and how she addresses the question of truth. It had some weaknesses as a whole -- how the parts fit together. As often happens, the pieces where she is older are not as strong. I want to read more of her.
I liked this book because of the writing style. I liked that it combined the English language with Spanish language. Having them side by side helps bilingual students as well as English Language Learners. I also liked how the author implemented a song into the book. The book has a great plot and lines of a song breaks up the paragraphs. One of the lines of the song is, "Let's dance! to the rhythm that makes us... that makes us happy." This quote breaks up the event of the mother and her family dancing in the streets. I also really liked the illustrations in this book. I felt as though they helped to really convey the latino culture. They used vibrant colors that helped to convey the appropriate mood of the story.… (mais)
This is another very good book to celebrate yet another culture and their traditions. This books talks about the lives of different teenagers growing up including Rita who lives with her grandparents. They live in Puerto Rico and this will give my students a look into what that culture and place is like. There is also Luis who works at the junkyard with his Dad and Sandra who wants to become more connected with her Latino roots. I like the way it shows the point of view of many different teenagers and it helps give a glimpse into what we will study more in depth after reading it out loud- which is the hispanic culture.… (mais)
Living in Puerto Rico depresses Maria's father who grew up in New York City. Maria's mother however has a teaching job she loves on the isla she grew up on. Papi moves to Manhattan and Maria decides to go with him, to get an American education and improve her English. In Manhattan, Maria keeps busy with her studies, assisting her father who works as the super of their apartment building, and hanging out with best friends Uma and Whoopee. Through her poems, narration and letters to her mother, Maria describes being caught between the two worlds of Puerto Rico and America. Sometimes she's "Maria Alegre" and other times "Maria Triste." She observes, too, the Puertoriquenos who long for a land that they've never been to. And she sees her father blooming in the comfort of his native city.… (mais)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 19
- Also by
- 28
- Membros
- 1,132
- Popularidade
- #22,675
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Críticas
- 31
- ISBN
- 69
- Línguas
- 1
- Marcado como favorito
- 2