Silent dancing : a partial remembrance of a Puerto Rican childhood

Silent dancing : a partial remembrance of a Puerto Rican childhood

  • Author: Cofer, Judith Ortiz
  • Publisher: Arte Público Press
  • ISBN: 9781558850156
  • eISBN Pdf: 9781611925685
  • Place of publication:  Houston , United States
  • Year of publication: 1991
  • Pages: 168

Silent Dancing is a personal narrative made up of Judith Ortiz Cofer’s recollections of the bilingual-bicultural childhood which forged her personality as a writer and an artist. The daughter of a Navy man, Ortiz Cofer was born in Puerto Rico and spent her childhood shuttling between the small island town of her birth and New Jersey. In fluid, clear, incisive prose, as well as in the poems she includes to highlight the major themes, Ortiz Cofer has added an important chapter to autobiography, Hispanic American creativity and women’s literature.

  • Cover
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Contents
  • Preface: journey to a summer's afternoon
  • Casa
  • More Room
  • Talking to the dead
  • The black virgin
  • Primary lessons
  • One more lesson
  • Tales told under the mango tree
  • Silent dancing
  • Some of the characters
  • The looking-glass shame
  • Quinceañera
  • Marina
  • The last word

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