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Judith Ortiz Cofer (February 24, 1952 – December 30, 2016 [2]) was a Puerto Rican author. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Her critically acclaimed and award-winning work spans a range of literary genres including poetry, short stories, autobiography, essays, and young-adult fiction.
In his book José, Can You See?, Alberto Sandoval-Sánchez mentions Cofer's trouble with the stereotyping, but also highlights that she uses the term "Latino" as an identity marker, which shows that she "not only embraces other Latino ethnicities in the U.S., she also engages in the deconstruction of Latina stereotypes in Hollywood and in the media". [2]
Of No Country I Know: New and Selected Poems and Translations: W. S. Di Piero, Mary Kinzie, Eleanor Wilner: 2001 Fanny Howe: Selected Poems: Elaine Equi, Ann Lauterbach, Bob Perelman: 2002 Madeline DeFrees: Blue Dusk: Joy Harjo, Michael S. Harper, Lawson Inada 2003 Eamon Grennan: Still Life with Waterfall: Judith Ortiz Cofer, Andrew Hudgins ...
The Line of the Sun, titled La Línea del Sol in the Spanish translation, is a 1989 novel written by Puerto Rican-American author Judith Ortiz Cofer. The story spans three decades, beginning in the late 1930s and ending in the 1960s. [1] The novel is Ortiz Cofer's main work of prose, and its publication helped broaden her readership. [2]
Judith Ortiz Cofer, poet, writer and essayist [97] Micol Ostow, author. Ostow wrote Mind Your Manners, Dick and Jane. Her novel Emily Goldberg Learns to Salsa was named a New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age. [98]
Giannina Braschi, poet, novelist, and Latinx political philosopher. Author of the Spanglish classic novel Yo-Yo Boing!, the postmodern poetry epic Empire of Dreams, and the book on Puerto Rican independence, United States of Banana. [27] [28] [29] Judith Ortíz Cofer, poet, writer and essayist. First Latino to win an O. Henry Prize.
The Women of Plums: Poems in the Voices of Slave Women: 1993 Sandra Cisneros: Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories: 1994 Judith Ortiz Cofer: The Latin Deli: Prose and Poetry: 1995 Reginald Gibbons: Sweetbitter: A Novel: 1996 Madison Smartt Bell: All Souls' Rising: 1997 Jamaica Kincaid: Autobiography of My Mother: 1998 Walter Mosley: Always ...
Nancy Mercado (born 1959), Post-Beat writer, Nuyorican poet, essayist, fiction writer, playwright, editor, activist; Mayra Montero (born 1952), journalist, novelist, short story writer; Nicholasa Mohr (born 1938), Nuyorican novelist, children's writer, short story writer; Rosario Morales (1930–2011), poet, essayist, raised in New York City