write an essay after reading this case 60 Judith Ortiz Cofer maaa Judith Ortiz Cofer (b. 1952)

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60 Judith Ortiz Cofer maaa Judith Ortiz Cofer (b. 1952) spent her childhood in the small Puerto Rican town where she was born and in Paterson, New Jersey, where her family lived for most of each year, from the time she was three. She attended Catholic schools in Paterson and holds degrees from the University of Georgia and Florida Atlantic University. She has published several volumes of poetry, including Reaching for the Mainland (1996), and her 1989 norel The Line of the Sun was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Cofer has also published two autobiographical works: Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood (1990) and The Latin Deli: Prose and Poetry (1993). Her most recent books are Woman in Front of the Sun: On Becoming a Writer (2000) and The Meaning of Consuelo (2003). She currently teaches creative writing at the University of Georgia. Judith Ortiz Cofer Casa: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood In "Casa: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood." Judith Ortiz Cofer describes the bonds that obtain among a community of women-three generations of a family headed by the matriarch, Mamá, the author's grandmother. In celebrating the intertwined lives of these women of her family. Cofer simultaneously celebrates the power of storytelling. Weaving these two strands of her essay together-family and stories-Cofer conveys some important ideas about women and their relations with men along with important ideas about culture and its significance for identity. Cofer's "Casa" is about living in and moving between two worlds-the warm world of her Puerto Rican tropical home and the cold new world of New York and Paterson, New Jersey, Cofer alludes to this dual existence early on and explains its significance later in her essay, referring to herself as an outsider who spoke English with a Spanish accent and Spanish with an English accent. And although this dual linguistic identity made her stand out in both groups, Cofer benefits from her double linguistic and cultural heritage. It allows her to shift back and forth readily between two very different worlds, with their different sets of cultural values, At three or four o'clock in the afternoon, the hour of café con leche, the women of my family gathered in Mamá's living room to speak of impor- tant things and retell familiar stories meant to be overheard by us young girls, their daughters. In Mama's house (everyone called my grandmother 60 Judith Ortiz Cofer maaa Judith Ortiz Cofer (b. 1952) spent her childhood in the small Puerto Rican town where she was born and in Paterson, New Jersey, where her family lived for most of each year, from the time she was three. She attended Catholic schools in Paterson and holds degrees from the University of Georgia and Florida Atlantic University. She has published several volumes of poetry, including Reaching for the Mainland (1996), and her 1989 norel The Line of the Sun was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Cofer has also published two autobiographical works: Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood (1990) and The Latin Deli: Prose and Poetry (1993). Her most recent books are Woman in Front of the Sun: On Becoming a Writer (2000) and The Meaning of Consuelo (2003). She currently teaches creative writing at the University of Georgia. Judith Ortiz Cofer Casa: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood In "Casa: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood." Judith Ortiz Cofer describes the bonds that obtain among a community of women-three generations of a family headed by the matriarch, Mamá, the author's grandmother. In celebrating the intertwined lives of these women of her family. Cofer simultaneously celebrates the power of storytelling. Weaving these two strands of her essay together-family and stories-Cofer conveys some important ideas about women and their relations with men along with important ideas about culture and its significance for identity. Cofer's "Casa" is about living in and moving between two worlds-the warm world of her Puerto Rican tropical home and the cold new world of New York and Paterson, New Jersey, Cofer alludes to this dual existence early on and explains its significance later in her essay, referring to herself as an outsider who spoke English with a Spanish accent and Spanish with an English accent. And although this dual linguistic identity made her stand out in both groups, Cofer benefits from her double linguistic and cultural heritage. It allows her to shift back and forth readily between two very different worlds, with their different sets of cultural values, At three or four o'clock in the afternoon, the hour of café con leche, the women of my family gathered in Mamá's living room to speak of impor- tant things and retell familiar stories meant to be overheard by us young girls, their daughters. In Mama's house (everyone called my grandmother

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1 Judith Cofers Silent Dancing A Partial Remembrance of Puerto Rican Childhood is a memoir that tells the story of her childhood and teenage years in Puerto Rico She was born there in 1952 when the is... View the full answer