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Shimmering fragments of poetry, fiction, fable, and essay reflect a kaleidoscopic vision of burgeoning adulthood as seen through the eyes of the young protagonists in El año de nuestra revolución, the Spanish-language edition of Judith Ortiz Cofer’s award-winning collection, The Year of Our Revolution.
Among the memorable heroines to emerge from this landmark collection is María Elenita, aka Mary Ellen. As she embarks upon the journey from innocent adolescence to young womanhood, her imagination moves from thoughts of school and Supergirl to dreams of rock music, rebellion and first love. Donning the uniform of the opposition— tie-dyed T-shirts, Indian headbands and noisy jewelry with the aroma of patchouli incense wafting about her, Mary Ellen mounts her season of insurgency during which she awakens to sensuality with her "boy-poet" Gerald and the "soldier-boy" Pito. Ultimately she learns the high price to be paid for matters of the heart.
In a work suitable for mature older teens and young adults, Ortiz Cofer crystallizes what María Elenita’s saddened Mamá calls "the worst year in the history of parents and children . . . the year of our revolution."
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·A compelling collection about coming of age during the turbulent ’60s
About the Author:
·The original English-language version won the 1999 Paterson Prize for Books for Young People
·Named to The New York Public Library’s 1999 Books for the Teen Age
·Winner of the 1999 Paterson Prize for Books for Young People and named to The New York Public Library’s 1999 Books for the Teen Age
"This will be an invaluable resource for ethnic studies classes; it will also be a wonderful reading experience for literate teens able to savor the author’s use of language." —Booklist
JUDITH ORTIZ COFER, a poet, novelist and essayist, is the author of numerous award-winning books, including An Island Like You: Stories of the Barrio (Orchard Books, 1995, Penguin, 1997), recipient of the 1995 Pura Belpré Award, the ALA Best Books for Young Adults and the Horn Book/Fanfare Best Book of the Year list. Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood (Arte Público Press, 1991) received a PEN citation, the Martha Albrand Award for non-fiction, and a Pushcart Prize for the essay "More Room." Ortiz Cofer lives in Athens, Georgia, where she is a professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Georgia.
ELENA OLAZAGASTI-SEGOVIA has translated several literary works, including Judith Ortiz Cofer’s The Line of the Sun (University of Georgia Press) and Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood. She is a professor of Spanish at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.
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- PublisherArte Publico Press
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 155885472X
- ISBN 13 9781558854727
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages106
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El Año de Nuestra Revolucion : Cuentos y Poemas
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