Silent Dancing (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Judith Ortiz Cofer
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir, Essays, Poetry
- Subjects: Maturation or coming of age, Memory, Mothers, Parents and children, Love or romance, Poetry or poets, Immigration or emigration, Grandparents or grandchildren, Puerto Rico or Puerto Ricans
Early in Silent Dancing, which in 1991 won the PEN/Martha Albrand Special Citation for Nonfiction and was included in New York Public Library's 1991 Best Books for Teens, Ortiz Cofer warns her readers that she is not interested in “canning” memories. Rather, like Woolf in Moments of Being(1976), she writes autobiographically to connect with “the threads of lives that have touched mine and at some point converged into the tapestry that is my memory of childhood.”
Silent Dancing is not an autobiography as such; it does not progress linearly from the...
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