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"The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria"
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Judith Ortiz Cofer
(1952 - )
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Judith Ortiz Cofer, a poet and novelist, was born in 1952 in Hormigueros, Puerto Rico, and was educated at Augusta College, Florida Atlantic University, and Oxford University. Her published work includes the collections of poetry Peregrina (1985), Terms of Survival (1987), and Reaching for the Mainland and Selected New Poems (1996) and a novel, The Line of the Sun (1989). She also wrote An Island Like You: Stories of the Barrio (1995); Year of Our Revolution: New and Selected Stories and Poems (1998); and Woman in Front of the Sun: On Becoming a Writer (2001). "The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria," which first appeared in The Latin Deli: Prose and Poetry (1993), explores the destructive effects of the Latina stereotype.
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