The Latin Deli (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Judith Ortiz Cofer
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Work: Prose and poetry
- Genres: Nonfiction, Essays
- Subjects: Culture, United States or Americans, Immigration or emigration, Stereotypes, Latinos, Puerto Rico or Puerto Ricans, Sales personnel
Readers of Silent Dancing and The Line of the Sun will encounter in The Latin Deli many of the personalities and situations familiar from Ortiz Cofer's two earlier books. The delicatessen of the title is a bodega in Paterson where residents of El Building shop for such Puerto Rican comestibles as plantains and Bustelo coffee.
Most of the stories and poems in The Latin Deli are told from the perspective of a young girl torn between two worlds. The father, English-speaking and light-complected, is a working-class man who constrains a daughter in...
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