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The tenth-anniversary edition of this classic book, with a new preface Translated Woman tells the story of an unforgettable encounter between Ruth Behar, a Cuban-American feminist anthropologist, and Esperanza Hern?ndez, a Mexican street peddler.A brave and unusual work. . . . The Boston GlobeA stunning critique. . . . Engrossing reading at the hands of a skillful interpreter.The New York Times Book Review
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"Postmodernist writing at its best.... Much of Translated Woman reads like a novel; but Behar's fine theoretical and analytical skills repeatedly jar us into thinking about real feminist issues, issues that are grounded in the gaps between the U.S. and Mexico, between a privileged female professor and a woman street vendor, between a young mother of a healthy infant son and an older woman who has lost six of her infant children and is estranged from one of her grown sons." Women's Review of Books
"A mesmerizing, richly textured overlay of the relationship forged between two women.... An important, compelling contribution." Booklist
"Translated Woman belongs in the same publishing universe as Oscar Lewis's Children of Sanchez.... Unlike Lewis, however, Behar writes not principally of men but of women to yield for us a sense of another Mexicoa site of strength, integrity, creativity, and esperanza.... An exciting piece of work that stands superbly alone in the life-history genre as I know it." Jos Limn, University of Texas, Austin
"[Behar's] discussion of her ethnicity and the status of Latinas in general is excellent. Recommended for all libraries." Library Journal
"A finely crafted readable cross-cultural encounter between dos comadres: feminist anthropologist and informant, cubanita de este lado and mexicana across the border.... Escribiendo cultura con corazn, compasin y pasin, Behar moves the serpent to speak, and moves us to read and read again." Gloria Anzalda, author of Borderlands/La Frontera
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Translated Woman
Crossing the Border with Esperanza's Story
Ruth Behar
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Beacon Press 25 Beacon Street Boston, Massachusetts 02108-2892
Beacon Press books are published under the auspices of the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations.
1993 by Ruth Behar All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America
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Text design by Copenhaver Cumpston
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Behar, Ruth, 1956 Translated woman : crossing the border with Esperanza's story / Ruth Behar. p. cm. ISBN 0-8070-7052-1 (cloth) ISBN 0-8070-7053-X (paper) 1. Rural womenMexicoMexquiticSocial conditionsCase studies. 2. EthnologyMexicoMexquitic. 3. Mexquitic (Mexico) Rural conditions. I. Title. HQ1465.M63B44 1993 305.42'0972'44dc20 92-5588 CIP
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FRONTISPIECE: Esperanza in her garden (1985) ENDPIECE: Esperanza taking home a bucket of fruit from her garden (1988)
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Praise for Translated Woman
"Through Behar's work, Esperanza's story of struggle for personal power and dignity against the overwhelming currents of male domination and poverty crosses borders of language, class, culture, and nation. North American readers are presented with a voice seldom found in print.... Behar has made her struggle with translation into a sonnet." Oakland Tribune
"Part anthropological study, part gripping oral history, part personal confession and part feminist cry of outrage, Translated Woman is a brave and unusual work that attempts to bridge multiple disciplines, cultures and literary traditions." Boston Globe
"A ground-breaking feminist Latina ethnography.... The power of [Esperanza's] story matches any of those recorded by Oscar Lewis and more traditional anthropologists.... [A] powerful and brilliant study." The Nation
"Remarkably engaging and well written... [Translated Woman] will be sure to attract a wide readership [including] members of the public who wonder what motivates people to spend time in far off places interacting with cultural Others.... An outstanding document of our age." Barbara Tedlock, State University of New York, Buffalo
"Not one but two life stories, each reflecting the other, each an act of self-revelation." Chronicle of Higher Education
"An achievement, Ruth Behar's volume is a bridge across the abyss we call 'the Rio Grande,' a no-(wo)man's-land where the Hispanic and Anglo idiosyncrasies collide.... A crossroad where anthropology and literature meet and a new understanding of translation emerges." Ilan Stavans, Tikkun
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When she hates someone whom she formerly loved, then she seethes with anger and impatience in her whole soul, just as the tides of the sea are always heaving and boiling. Many authorities allude to this cause.
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