De camaleão cultural a dragão transcultural: uma leitura de Silent dancing de Judith Ortiz Cofer

Abstract

This thesis proposes a reading of Silent dancing:a partial remembrance of a Puerto Rican childhood, by Judith Ortiz Cofer, and aims at investigating the process of its narrator’s identity, a bicultural subject shuttling between Puerto Rico and the United States of America, which develops into a transcultural identity. Besides examining the narrator’s transformation from a “cultural chameleon” into a “transcultural dragon”, the research analyzes its autobiographical aspect, the overlapping of the English and Spanish languages and also the mixture of narratives and poems present in the book.