Judith ortiz cofer biography of martin
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"At three or four o'clock in the afternoon, the hour of cafe con leche, the women of my family gathered in Mama's living room to speak of important things and to tell stories for the hundredth time, as if to each other, meant to be overheard bygd us ung girls, their daughters?"
This quotation comes from the beginning of Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood bygd Judith Ortiz Cofer. Silent Dancing fryst vatten a collection of semi-autobiographical essays. In Cofer's own words, it is a collection of short pieces of "creative non-fiction" (Ocasio ). Ortiz Cofer defines herself primarily as an artist. In her works, she explores what it means to be a writer in the face of negotiating what it means to be a Puerto Rican, an American, and a woman. Creating individual and community identities is a key aspect of Ortiz Cofer's life as an author. She is interested in the creative process and giving voice to the many characters in he
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I was born in Ohio, where I studied at Wittenberg University (B.A.) and Ohio University (M.A., Ph.D.). Later I lived in Connecticut, Pennsylvania, West Virginia (where I founded the journal Kestrel at Fairmont State), and Costa Rica. But since , I&#;ve called Georgia home, where I live with my wife, Libby, a native of Atlanta. Since , Libby and I have traveled to Costa Rica, Spain, and many other countries. Here we are in Germany, where Libby was a Fulbright Scholar in Berlin. My mother&#;s family were &#;Volga Germans&#; (Wolgadeutsche) who emigrated from Russia&#;s Volga River Valley to Ohio in My mother&#;s family name Lichtenwald means, literally, &#;light in the woods,&#; but more colloquially, &#;a clearing.&#;
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In , we moved to Milledgeville, where we both started jobs at Georgia College (famous fiction writer Flannery O&#;Connor grew up and went to college here). Libby worked in the International Education office, where she serve
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Judith Ortiz Cofer is an award-winning author known for her stories about coming-of-age experiences in the barrio and her writings about the cultural conflicts of immigrants. She is the author of many distinguished titles for young adults such as Call Me Maria, The Meaning of Conseulo, Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood, and The Line in the Sun. She lives in Georgia where she is the Regents’ and Franklin Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Georgia.
Notes for my Daughter on the Morning of a New Year
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Notes for My Daughter on the Morning of a New Year
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