The myth of the latin woman

Read the text "the Myth of the Latin woman" by Cofer

As you read the text- mark up or identify allusions.

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Create new document in which you will list 5 different allusions used by Judith Ortiz Cofer in this text.

Writers make a conscious choice of why and how they use allusions to make an impact on their audience their purpose.

Handwritten assignments will not receive credit.570 SEAMUS HEANEY explaining how they support this identity of Heaney as an anthropologist. 3. How does Heaney comparehimself as a writer with his father and grandfather as potato farmers? Cite the text to support your explanation. 4. What argument is Heaney making in this poem about the speaker's identity in relation to his father and grandfather? What examples and strategies does he use to persuade readersof his position? nN The Myth of the Latin Woman: | Just Met a Girl Named Maria JUDITH ORTIZ COFER SHARING THE DISCOVERIES: Discussion and Writing 1. Find a storyboard template online and transform the poem into a storyboard, giving each stanza one frame.In the space next to each frame, explain your representation and howit relates to the poem's ideas about identity. 2. Writers sometime say that the best way to understand a character or a real person is to ask what they want more than anything else—and why? Based on your reading of the poem, what would you say Seamus Heaney wants more than anything—and why? 3. Reflect on what the poem says about work and its connection to our identity. What sorts of work have people in your family done? Discuss your own plans for work and howthey relate to the sort of work people in your family do or have done in the past. Born in 1952 in Hormigueros, Puerto Rico, Judith Ortiz Cofer is an award-winning poet, essayist, and novelist. She was raised in Puerto Rico, New Jersey, and Georgia. She holds a BA from Au- gusta College in Augusta, Georgia, and an MA from Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida. In 2010, she was inducted into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame, and in 2013, she retired after twenty-six years as Regents’ and Franklin Professor of English and Creative writing at the University of Georgia, Athens. In “The Myth of the Latin Woman: | Just Met a Girl Named Maria,” originally published in The Latin Deli (1993), Ortiz Cofer reflects on her cultural identity as a Puerto Rican American woman— a frequent theme of her work. CONTINUING THE JOURNEY:Media Extension Listen to Seamus Heaney read “Digging” on YouTube. —/ 572 JUDITH ORTIZ COFER On a bustrip to London from Oxford University where I was earning some graduate credits one summer, a young man, obvi- ously fresh from a pub, spotted meandasif struck by inspiration went down onhis kneesin the aisle. With both hands over his heart he brokeinto anIrish tenor’s rendition of “Maria” from West Side Story. My politely amused fellow passengersgavehis lovely voice the round of gentle applause it deserved. Though I was not quite as amused, I managed myversion of an English smile: no show of teeth, no extreme contortions of the facial muscles—I was at this time of my life practicing reserve and cool. Oh, that British control, how I coveted it. But Maria had followed me to London, reminding meof a prime fact of my life: you can leave the Island, master the English language, and travel as far las you can, but if you are a Latina, especially one like me who so obviously belongs to Rita Moreno’ gene pool, the Island travels with you. This is sometimes a very good thing—it may win youthat extra minute of someone’ attention. But with some people, the same things can make you an island—not so much a tropical paradise as an Alcatraz, a place nobody wants to visit.