When a poet moves into the apartment above hers, young Juliana asks to meet her and together they write poems of tropical birds and a river that flows to the sea, typing out words that change the world, if only for a while.
Judith Ortiz Cofer Poradie kníh
Judith Ortiz Cofer sa vo svojej tvorbe zameriava na zložitý proces prekrývania americkej a portorickej kultúry. Jej rozprávanie, výrazne ovplyvnené tradíciou ústneho podania a najmä rozprávačským umením jej babičky, často skúma témy rasizmu, sexizmu a výziev, ktorým čelia diasporní imigranti. Svoje vnímavosti ako spisovateľka formuje práve toto viacnárodnostné pozadie a prístup k životu. Jej diela, či už vo forme poézie, poviedok alebo esejí, tak predstavujú hlboký vhľad do identity a kultúrneho vyjednávania.
- 2012
- 1989
The Line of the Sun
- 304 stránok
- 11 hodin čítania
Set in the 1950s and 1960s, The Line of the Sun moves from a rural Puerto Rican village to a tough immigrant housing project in New Jersey, telling the story of a Hispanic family's struggle to become part of a new culture without relinquishing the old. At the story's center is Guzmán, an almost mythic figure whose adventures and exile, salvation and return leave him a broken man but preserve his place in the heart and imagination of his niece, who is his secret biographer.
