Woman in Front of the Sun (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Judith Ortiz Cofer
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Essays and poetry
- Genres: Nonfiction, Essays, Poetry
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Memory, Authors or writers, Writing, New Jersey, Listening, Puerto Rico or Puerto Ricans
In this potpourri of essays and poetry, Ortiz Cofer reveals what it means to be a writer. It is obvious from her exquisite use of language that she is intoxicated with the wonder of words and with their emotive potential. She is also intrigued by the role memory plays in writing. Writers drift mentally through the full accumulation of experience and pluck from it the elements from which they construct stories.
For Ortiz Cofer, this revisiting of memory involved two distinct cultures, three or more generations, and the equilibrium that she was forced to reach as she moved from...
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