Coyotes, Comadres, y Colegas: Theorizing the Personal in Ruth Behar's Translated Woman: Crossing the Border with Esperanza's Story

susana s. martínez is Assistant Professor at DePaul University. Her research interests include the Latin American testimonio, the representations of otherness in reality television, and travel narratives. She teaches courses on Central American fiction, cultural diversity of Latin America through film, and literature by U.S. Latinos/as. Her article “El retorno a la muerte en Contravida y ‘El portón de los sueños’ de Augusto Roa Bastos” appears in Ciberletras: Journal of Literary Criticism and Cultura 11 (2004). “Let's Go: Touring Gringo/a Identities in Travel Narratives to Guatemala” is published in Brújula: revista interdisciplinaria sobre estudios latinoamericanos 3 (December 2004) in a special issue titled “Utopian Passports: Travel, Immigration, and Diaspora in Latin America.”