Comparing Literary Texts: Volar And La Gorda And The City Of Silver

Vourvoulias In the class we read several texts written by Latino/as writers. Two of these texts are “Volar” by Judith Cofer and “La Gorda and the City of Silver” by Sabrina Vourvoulias. Both texts have some similarities and some differences that I’m going to be identifying in this essay. I’m going to talk a little about the authors and their literary texts. Afterwards I will be comparing both texts and the authors. I would also be talking about the authors as latinas writers and comparing them. Judith Cofer is poetry and a creative nonfiction writer. She was born in Hormigueros, Puerto Rico and then moved to Puerto Rico with her parents. She earned a bachelor of arts in English from Augusta College and later an master of arts in English from florida Atlantic University. In “Volar” Judith Cofer recalls
Her father would gently explain that it is not possible and soon her mother would calmly rise from the table, light a cigarette and look out the kitchen window. She would sigh deeply and say what the view inspired her to say: “Oh, if only I could fly.”. Sabrina Vourvoulias is a Latina newspaper editor, blogger and writer. She was born in United States, but grew up in Guatemala and then moved to the United States when she was 15 years old. She studied writing and filmmaking at Sarah Lawrence College. “La Gorda” by Sabrina tells the story of this woman that watching and admiring luchadores in her father’s company. Unlike these luchadores that are allowed to be corpulent, to be in a ring and movies, she can’t because women are not luchadores. At least that's what El Patojo, El Super Fly and El Diablo Colorado tell her when they go to her father;s house for the Sunday tamalada. She was wringing out sheets in the pila when she hears Elena crying. Although they stopped playing together she still considers herself as her