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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.
This man continues his intrusion by reciting a crude version of the song "La Bamba" revised to reinforce this promiscuous stereotype. Cofer continues to reveal the "myth of the Latino woman" as being the menial housemaid or domestic by going on to share, how when at a speaking engagement she was confused by one of the attendees as one of the ...
"Kipling and I" (poem), in Wáchale!: poetry and prose about growing up Latino in America, edited by Ilan Stavans, 2001. Chicago: Cricket Books. ISBN 0-8126-4750-5. "The teacher was surprised", in Riding low on the street of gold, edited and with an introduction by Judith Ortiz Cofer, 2003. Houston, Texas: Piñata Books; Arte Público Press.
Bernardo Vega, novelist, author of The Memoirs of Bernardo Vega (1977, English ed. 1984) [24] Edgardo Vega Yunqué or Ed Vega, novelist [138] Irene Vilar, author and literary agent. Vilar is the granddaughter of independence activist Lolita Lebrón. [139] Alfredo Villanueva Collado, poet [140] William Carlos Williams (Puerto Rican mother ...
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]
Riding Low on the Streets of Gold, Latino Literature for Young Adults, Ed. by Judith Ortiz Cofer (Piñata Books/Arte Público Press/University of Houston, 2003) ISBN 1-55885-380-4. Latino/a Literature in the English Classroom; Ed. by Manuel Hernández (Editorial Plaza Mayor; San Juan, PR, 2003) ISBN 1-56328-249-6.
Judith Ortiz Cofer (1952–2016), Puerto Rican poet and author; Allison Hedge Coke (born 1958), American/Canadian poet; Merle Collins (born 1950), Grenadian poet and fiction writer; Judy Croome (born 1958), South African poet and novelist; Bernadette Sanou Dao (born 1952), Burkina Faso poet, fiction writer and politician
Judith Ortiz Cofer (1952–2016), poet, writer and essayist; in 1994, became the first Hispanic to win the O. Henry Prize for her story "The Latin Deli"; in 1996, she and illustrator Susan Guevara became the first recipients of the Pura Belpre Award for Hispanic children's literature [102] [129]