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Ruth
Behar
February 15, 2002
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Ruth
Behar shares her experiences of crossing cultural borders through
her work as a writer, editor, ethnographer, and documentary
filmmaker. A recipient of the MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Award,
as well as a John Simon Guggenheim Award, her books include
Translated Woman: Crossing the Border with Esperanza's
Story,
and Santa Maria Del Monte: The Presence of the Past in
a Spanish Village. She has also translated the works of Cuban women poets
and had a collection of her own poems produced by the Cuban
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Behar was born in Havana,
Cuba and came to live in New York with her family in 1962. She
received her B.A. in Letters from Wesleyan University, and her
M.A. and Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from Princeton University.
She resides in Ann Arbor and is a Professor of Anthropology at
the Universtiy of Michigan. She is also affiliated with University
of Michigan programs in Women's Studies, Latina/Latino Studies,
and Latin American and Caribbean Studies.
"Whether you are a comadre or a stranger, a storyteller
or story-listener, [Translated Woman] reaches across kitchen
tables, across cultures, and takes you into its confidence." -Sandra
Cisneros, author of Woman Hollering Creek
For more information on Ruth Behar, please visit her website:
http://www.ruthbehar.com/
To view Special Collections' holdings
of Behar's work, please click here.
To hear Behar read from her own work, please visit the Vincent
Voice Library, here.
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Last Updated:
March 8, 2007
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