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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.
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]
Other writers commented on the story's theme that no matter where people of Puerto Rican heritage traveled, they were always made aware of that fact because the "island traveled with you". [3] Pauline Newton commented that Cofer's comparisons to various Marias was a "crucial step in the process of the creation of Ortiz Cofer's own transcultural ...
On Oct. 18 of that year, the U.S. took control of Puerto Rico and raised the American flag on the island — a decision with echoing consequences still felt 125 years later.
Vidal Santiago Díaz (1910–1982), political activist; barber of Pedro Albizu Campos and uncle of the novelist Esmeralda Santiago; made Puerto Rican media history when numerous police officers and National Guardsmen attacked him at his barbershop during the 1950 Nationalist Revolt; this was the first time in Puerto Rican history that such an ...
The study shows that the average Puerto Rican on the Eastern region is 54.7% European, 31.8% African, and 13.5% Native American, while the average Puerto Rican on the Western Region is 68.5% European, 15.9% African, and 15.6% Native American.
In 1963, the New York Daily News ran stories about an underground, word-of-mouth network of doctors in Puerto Rico who performed abortions on American women, from “suburban society matrons” to ...
María Bibiana Benítez (1783–1873), Puerto Rico's first female poet, playwright Giannina Braschi (born 1953), novelist, poet, essayist, playwright Julia de Burgos (1914–1953), acclaimed poet, activist