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La Malinche's reputation has shifted over the centuries, as various peoples evaluate her role against their own societies' changing social and political perspectives. Especially after the Mexican War of Independence , which led to Mexico's independence from Spain in 1821, dramas, novels, and paintings portrayed her as an evil or scheming ...
'Traitor, Survivor, Icon: The Legacy of La Malinche' at the Denver Art Museum reconsiders a foundational figure in Mexican national mythology.
She is often known as La Malinche and also sometimes called "Malintzin" or Malinalli. [65] Later, the Aztecs would come to call Cortés "Malintzin" or La Malinche by dint of his close association with her. [66] Bernal Díaz del Castillo wrote in his account The True History of the Conquest of New Spain that Marina was "truly a great princess".
Jun. 4—Both revered and reviled, La Malinche was an enigmatic figure whose legacy has inspired controversy, legend and adulation since the 16th century. Depending on your point of view, the ...
La culpa es de los tlaxcaltecas (Blame the Tlaxcaltecs) is a short story by Elena Garro, published by in 1964 as part of the collection La Semana de Colores. [1] In the work, Garro uses magical realism in order to convey a message about the role of women in society.
La Malinche's role in Chicana literature. Certain contemporary Chicana writers have taken on La Malinche, re-writing her story as one of a woman who had little choice in her role as Cortés's interpreter (she was sold to him as a slave), and who served as a "mediator between the Spanish and indigenous peoples."
Cotera writes at length about the pre-Columbian history of Mexicanas and emphasizes the role of women in the indigenous Aztec & Nahua cultures of Mexico. Similar to other Chicana feminist authors of that era she re-imagines the historical legacy of Malinalli Tenepal (La Malinche), reclaiming her as positive female figure.
La Malinche is often used as a symbol for those who aided the Spaniards in the destruction of indigenous American cultures and ways of life. "Malinchism" may be taken as a pejorative, as an expression of disdain for those who are attracted by foreign values, thinking them superior, of better quality and worthy of imitation.