La Malinche

Marina [maˈɾina] or Malintzin [maˈlintsin] (c. 1500 – c. 1529), more popularly known as La Malinche [la maˈlintʃe], was a Nahua woman from the Mexican Gulf Coast, who played a key role in the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, acting as an interpreter, advisor, and intermediary for the Spanish conquistador, Hernán Cortés. She was one of 20 women slaves given to the Spaniards by the natives of Tabasco in 1519.[1] Later, she gave birth to Cortés's first son, Martín, who is considered one of the first Mestizos (people of mixed European and indigenous American ancestry).

Marina
Bornaround 1500
Diedbefore February 1529
Other namesMalintzin, La Malinche
OccupationInterpreter, advisor, intermediary
Known forRole in the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire

The historical figure of Marina has been intermixed with Aztec legends (such as that of La Llorona, a ghost woman who weeps for her lost children).[2] Her reputation has been altered over the years according to changing social and political perspectives, especially after the Mexican Revolution, when she was portrayed in dramas, novels, and paintings as an evil or scheming temptress.[3] In Mexico today, La Malinche remains iconically potent. She is understood in various and often conflicting aspects as the embodiment of treachery, the quintessential victim, or simply as symbolic mother of the new Mexican people. The term malinchista refers to a disloyal compatriot, especially in Mexico.

Name

Malinche is known by many names.[4][5] She was baptized as Marina,[6][7] and was referred to as such by the Spaniards, often preceded with honorific doña.[8][9] The Nahuas called her 'Malintzin', derived from 'Malina' (a Nahuatl rendering of her Spanish name) and the honorific suffix -tzin.[10] According to the historian Camilla Townsend, the vocative suffix -e is sometimes added at the end of the name, giving the form Malintzine, which would be shortened to 'Malintze', and heard by the Spaniards as 'Malinche'.[10][lower-alpha 1] Another possibility is that the Spaniards simply did not hear the 'whispered' -n of the name Malintzin.[12]

Her name at birth is unknown.[6][13][14] It has been popularly assumed since at least the 19th century[15] that she was originally named 'Malinalli'[lower-alpha 2] (Nahuatl for 'grass'), after the day sign on which she was supposedly born,[18] and that Marina was chosen as her Christian name on account of phonetic similarity,[16] but modern historians have rejected these propositions.[6][15] The Nahuas associate the day sign 'Malinalli' with bad or even 'evil' connotations,[6][18][19] and they are known to avoid using such day signs as personal names.[6][20] Moreover, there would be little reason for the Spaniards to ask the natives what their personal names were before christening them with similar-sounding Spanish names.[21]

Another title that is often assumed to be part of her original name is 'Tenepal'. In the annotation made by the Nahua historian Chimalpahin on his copy of Gómara's biography of Cortés, 'Malintzin Tenepal' is used repeatedly in reference to Malinche.[15][22] According to the linguist and historian Frances Karttunen, Tenepal is probably derived from the Nahuatl root tene which means “lip-possessor, one who speaks vigorously”[13] or “one who has a facility with words”,[23] and postposition -pal, which means “by means of”.[13] The historian James Lockhart, however, suggests that Tenepal might be derived from tenenepil or "somebody's tongue".[24] In any case, it seems that 'Malintzin Tenepal' was intended to be a calque of Spanish doña Marina la lengua,[12][24] with la lengua ("the interpreter", literally "the tongue"[25]) being her Spanish sobriquet.[15]

Life

Background
Codex Azcatitlan, Hernán Cortés and Malinche (far right), early 16th-century indigenous pictorial manuscript of the conquest of Mexico

Malinche's birthdate is unknown,[16] but it is estimated to be around 1500, and likely no later than 1505.[26][27][lower-alpha 3] She was born in an altepetl that was either a part or a tributary of a Mesoamerican state whose center was located on the bank of the Coatzacoalcos River to the east of the Aztec Empire.[28][lower-alpha 4] Records disagree about the exact name of the altepetl where she was born into.[32][33] In three unrelated legal proceedings that occurred not long after her death, various witnesses who claimed to have known her personally, including her own daughter, said that she was born in Olutla. The probanza of her grandson also mentioned Olutla as her birthplace.[32] Her daughter also added that the altepetl of Olutla was related to Tetiquipaque, although the nature of this relationship is unclear.[34] In the Florentine Codex, Malinche's homeland is mentioned as "Teticpac", which is most likely the singular form of Tetiquipaque.[35] Gómara writes that she came from "Uiluta" (presumably a variant of Olutla), although he departs from other sources by writing that it was in the region of Jalisco. Díaz, on the other hand, gives "Painalla" as her birthplace.[36][32]

Her family is reported to be of noble background;[36] Gómara writes that her father was related to a local ruler,[37] while Díaz recounts that her parents themselves were rulers.[38] Townsend notes that while Olutla at the time probably had a Popoluca majority, the ruling elite, which Malinche supposedly belonged to, would have been Nahuatl-speaking.[39] Another hint that supports her noble origin is her apparent ability to understand the courtly language of tecpillahtolli (“lordly speech”), a Nahuatl register that is significantly different from the commoner's speech and has to be learned.[40][41] The fact that she was often referred to as a doña, at the time when it was not commonly used even in Spain, also indicates that she was viewed as a noblewoman,[17] although it is also possible that the honorific was attributed to her because of her important role in the conquest.[14]

Probably between the age of 8 and 12,[42] Malinche was either sold or kidnapped into slavery.[12][43] Díaz famously wrote that after her father's death, she was given away to merchants by her mother and stepfather so that their own son (Malinche's stepbrother) could succeed as heir.[44][45] Some scholars, historians and literary critics alike, have cast doubt upon Díaz's account of her origin.[17][44][46] Nevertheless, Townsend considers it likely that some of her people were complicit in trafficking her, regardless of the reason.[42] Malinche was taken to Xicalango,[47] a major port city in the region.[48] She was later purchased by a group of Chontal Maya who brought her to the town of Potonchán. It was here that Malinche started to learn the Chontal Maya language, and perhaps also Yucatec Maya.[49][lower-alpha 5] This would later enable her to communicate with Jerónimo de Aguilar, another interpreter for Cortes who also spoke Yucatec Maya, alongside his native Spanish.[52]

The conquest of Mexico
Moteucçoma was told how the Spaniards were bringing along with them a Mexica [Nahuatl-speaking] Indian woman called Marina, a citizen of the settlement of Teticpac, on the shore of the North Sea [Caribbean], who served as interpreter and said in the Mexican language everything that Captain don Hernando Cortés told her to.

— Report from the emissaries to Moctezuma. Florentine Codex, Book XII, Chapter IX[53]

Early in his expedition to Mexico, Cortés was confronted by the Mayas at Potonchán.[38] After suffering a significant loss of lives in the battle that ensued, the Mayas asked for peace, and in the following days, presented the Spaniards with gifts of food and gold, as well as twenty slave women. Malinche was one of the women presented to the Spaniards.[54][55] She and the other women were baptized and subsequently distributed among Cortés's men, not only as servants, but also to provide sexual services.[56][52][57] Malinche was given to Alonso Hernández Puertocarrero, one of Cortés's captains[52] who was also a first cousin to the count of Cortés's hometown, Medellín.[58]

Malinche's linguistic gift went undiscovered[59] until the Spaniards first encounter with the Nahuatl-speaking people at San Juan de Ulúa.[52][60] Moctezuma's emissaries had come to inspect them,[61] but Aguilar found himself unable to understand their words.[60] When it was realized that Malinche was able to converse with the emissaries, she and Aguilar were set aside by Cortés, who, according to Gómara, promised her “more than liberty” if she would assist him in finding and communicating with Moctezuma.[36][60] Cortés took Malinche back from Puertocarrero,[52] who was later given another indigenous woman before he was sent back to Spain.[62][63] Through Aguilar and Malinche, Cortés talked with Moctezuma's emissaries. The emissaries also brought artists to make paintings of Malinche, Cortés, and the rest of the group, as well as their ships and weapons, to be sent as records for Moctezuma.[64][65] Díaz later said that the Nahuas also addressed Cortés as "Malinche";[66][52] they apparently took her as a point of reference for the group.[67][lower-alpha 6]

From then on, Malinche would work together with Aguilar to bridge communication between the Spaniards and the Nahuas;[33][64] Cortés would speak Spanish with Aguilar, who then translated into Yucatec Maya for Malinche, who in turn translated into Nahuatl, before reversing the process.[70] The translation chain grew even longer when, after the emissaries left, they met the Totonacs,[71] whose language was unintelligible to both Malinche and Aguilar. There, Malinche asked for Nahuatl interpreters.[72][73] Karttunen remarks that "it is a wonder any communication was accomplished at all", for Cortés's Spanish words had to be translated into Maya, Nahuatl, and Totonac before reaching the locals, whose answers then went back through the same chain.[72] It was from the meeting with the Totonacs that the Spaniards first learned of those who were hostile to Moctezuma.[73][71] After founding the town of Villa Rica de la Vera Cruz in order to be freed from the legal restriction of what was supposed to be an exploratory mission,[74] the Spaniards stayed for two months in a nearby Totonac settlement, securing a formal alliance with the Totonacs and prepared for a march towards Tenochtitlan.[75][76]

The first major polity that they encounter on the way to Tenochtitlan was Tlaxcala.[77] Although the Tlaxcalans were initially hostile to the Spaniards and their allies,[78] they later permitted the Spaniards to enter the city.[79][80] The Tlaxcalans negotiated an alliance with the Spaniards through Malinche and Aguilar. Later Tlaxcalan records of this meeting feature scenes where Malinche appears prominent, bridging the communication between the two sides as the Tlaxcalans presented the Spaniards with gifts of food and noblewomen to cement the alliance.[66][81] After several days in Tlaxcala, Cortés continued the journey to Tenochtitlan by the way of Cholula, accompanied by a large number of Tlaxcalan soldiers.[66][82]

The Spaniards were received at Cholula and housed for several days, until, as the Spaniards claimed, the Cholulans stopped giving them food, dug secret pits, built a barricade around the city, and hid a large Aztec army in the outskirt in preparation for an attack against the Spaniards.[83][66] Somehow, the Spaniards learned of this plot, and, in a preemptive strike, assembled and massacred the Cholulans.[84] Later accounts specifically claimed that the plot was uncovered by Malinche. According to the version provided by Díaz, she was approached by a Cholulan noblewoman who promised her a marriage to the woman's son if she were to switch side. Malinche, pretending to go along with the suggestion, learned from the woman about the plot, and reported all the details to Cortés.[85][86] This story has often been cited as an example of Malinche's “betrayal” to her people.[12] However, the veracity of the story has been questioned by modern historians such as Hassig and Townsend.[86][87] It has been suggested that the Tlaxcalans were the real mastermind behind the massacre. Cholula had previously supported Tlaxcala before joining the Aztec Empire one or two years prior, and losing them as an ally was a hard hit for the Tlaxcalans, whose state was now completely encircled by the Aztecs.[88][87][89] It is possible that the attack on the Cholulans was in fact a test from the Tlaxcalans for the Spaniards' trustworthiness.[90][89] In this view, thus, Malinche's “heroic” discovery of the purported plot is only a part of the justification for the massacre.[86]

The meeting of Cortés and Moctezuma II, with Malinche acting as interpreter.

The combined forces reached Tenochtitlan in early November 1519, and was met by Moctezuma in a causeway leading to the city.[91] Malinche was in the middle of this event, translating the conversation between Cortés and Moctezuma.[43][92] Gomara writes that Moctezuma was "speaking through Malinche and Aguilar", although other records indicate that Malinche was already translating directly,[43] as she had quickly learned some Spanish herself.[52][93] Moctezuma's flowery speech delivered through Malinche at the meeting has been claimed by the Spaniards to represent a submission, but this interpretation is not followed by modern historians.[41][92] The deferential nature of the speech can be explained by Moctezuma's usage of tecpillahtolli, a Nahuatl register known for its indirection and complex set of reverential affixes.[41][94] Despite Malinche's apparent ability to understand tecpillahtolli, it is possible that some nuances were lost in translation,[41] and the Spaniards, deliberately or not, might have misinterpreted Moctezuma's actual words.[92]

Following the fall of Tenochtitlán in late 1521 and the birth of her son Martín Cortés in 1522, Marina stayed in a house Cortés built for her in the town of Coyoacán, eight miles south of Tenochtitlán, the Aztec capital city, while it was being rebuilt as Mexico City. Cortés took Marina to quell a rebellion in Honduras in 1524–1526 when she is seen serving again as interpreter (suggestive of a knowledge of Maya dialects beyond Chontal and Yucatán.) While in the mountain town of Orizaba in central Mexico, she married Juan Jaramillo, a Spanish hidalgo.[95] Some contemporary scholars have estimated that she died less than a decade after the conquest of Mexico-Tenochtitlan at some point before February 1529.[96][97] She was survived by her son Don Martín, who would be raised primarily by his father's family, and a daughter Doña María, who would be raised by Jaramillo and his second wife Doña Beatriz de Andrada.[98]

Role of La Malinche in the conquest of Mexico
La Malinche and Hernán Cortés in the city of Xaltelolco, in a drawing from the late 16th-century codex History of Tlaxcala

For the conquistadores, having a reliable interpreter was important enough, but there is evidence that Marina's role and influence were larger still. Bernal Díaz del Castillo, a soldier who, as an old man, produced the most comprehensive of the eye-witness accounts, the Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España ("True Story of the Conquest of New Spain"), speaks repeatedly and reverentially of the "great lady" Doña Marina (always using the honorific title Doña). "Without the help of Doña Marina", he writes, "we would not have understood the language of New Spain and Mexico." Rodríguez de Ocaña, another conquistador, relates Cortés' assertion that after God, Marina was the main reason for his success.

The evidence from indigenous sources is even more interesting, both in the commentaries about her role, and in her prominence in the codex drawings made of conquest events. Although to some Marina may be known as a traitor, she was not viewed as such by all the Tlaxcalan. In some depictions they portrayed her as "larger than life",[99] sometimes larger than Cortés, in rich clothing, and an alliance is shown between her and the Tlaxcalan instead of them and the Spaniards. They respected and trusted her and portrayed her in this light generations after the Spanish conquest.[99]

In the Lienzo de Tlaxcala (History of Tlaxcala), for example, not only is Cortés rarely portrayed without Marina poised by his side, but she is shown at times on her own, seemingly directing events as an independent authority. If she had been trained for court life, as in Díaz's account, her relationship to Cortés may have followed the familiar pattern of marriage among native elite classes. The role of the Nahua wife acquired through an alliance would have been to assist her husband achieve his military and diplomatic objectives.[100][101]

Today's historians give great credit to Marina's diplomatic skills, with some "almost tempted to think of her as the real conqueror of Mexico."[102] In fact, old conquistadors on various occasions would remember that one of her greatest skills had been her ability to convince other Indians of what she herself could see clearly, which was that it was useless in the long run to stand against Spanish metal and Spanish ships. In contrast with earlier parts of Díaz del Castillo's account, after Marina's diplomacy began assisting Cortés, the Spanish were forced into combat on one more occasion.[103]

Had La Malinche not been part of the Conquest of Mexico for her linguistic gift, communication between the Spanish and the Indigenous would have been much harder. La Malinche knew to speak in different registers and tones between certain Indigenous tribes and people. For the Nahua audiences, she spoke rhetorically, formally, and high-handedly. This shift into formality gave the Nahua the impression that she was a noblewoman who knew what she was talking about.[104]

Malinche’s image in contemporary Mexico
Modern statue of Cortés, Marina, and their son Martín, which was moved from a prominent place of display to an obscure one, due to protests

Malinche's image has become a mythical archetype that Hispanic American artists have represented in various forms of art. Her figure permeates historical, cultural, and social dimensions of Hispanic American cultures.[105] In modern times and in several genres, she is compared with the La Llorona (folklore story of the woman weeping for lost children), and the Mexican soldaderas (women who fought beside men during the Mexican Revolution)[106] for their brave actions.

La Malinche's legacy is one of myth mixed with legend, and the opposing opinions of the Mexican people about the legendary woman. Some see her as a founding figure of the Mexican nation, while others continue to see her as a traitor—as may be assumed from a legend that she had a twin sister who went North, and from the pejorative nickname La Chingada associated with her twin.

Feminist interventions into the figure of Malinche began in 1960s. The work of Rosario Castellanos was particularly significant; Chicanas began to refer to her as a "mother" as they adopted her as symbolism for duality and complex identity.[107] Castellanos's subsequent poem "La Mallinche" recast her not as a traitor but as a victim.[108] Mexican feminists defended Malinche as a woman caught between cultures, forced to make complex decisions, who ultimately served as a mother of a new race.[109]

Today in Mexican Spanish, the words malinchismo and malinchista are used to denounce Mexicans who are perceived as denying their own cultural heritage by preferring foreign cultural expressions.[110]

Some historians believe that La Malinche saved her people from the Aztecs, who held a hegemony throughout the territory and demanded tribute from its inhabitants. Some Mexicans also credit her with having brought Christianity to the New World from Europe, and for having influenced Cortés to be more humane than he would otherwise have been. It is argued, however, that without her help, Cortés would not have been successful in conquering the Aztecs as quickly, giving the Aztec people enough time to adapt to new technology and methods of warfare. From that viewpoint, she is seen as one who betrayed the indigenous people by siding with the Spaniards. Recently a number of feminist Latinas have decried such a categorization as scapegoating.[111]

President José López Portillo commissioned a sculpture of Cortés, Doña Marina, and their son Martín, which was placed in front of Cortés's house in the Coyoacan section of Mexico City. Once López Portillo left office, the sculpture was removed to an obscure park in the capital.[112]

La Malinche, as part of the Monumento al Mestizaje in Mexico City
  • A reference to La Malinche as Marina is made in the novel The Manuscript Found in Saragossa by the Polish author Jan Potocki, in which she is cursed for yielding her "heart and her country to the hateful Cortez, chief of the sea-brigands."[113]
  • La Malinche appears in the adventure novel Montezuma's Daughter (1893) by H. Rider Haggard.
  • Doña Marina appears in the Henry King film adventure Captain from Castile (1947) played Estela Inda.
  • La Malinche is portrayed as a Christian and protector of her fellow native Mexicans in the novel Tlaloc Weeps for Mexico (1939) by László Passuth, and is the main protagonist in such works as the novels The Golden Princess (1954) by Alexander Baron and Feathered Serpent: A Novel of the Mexican Conquest (2002) by Colin Falconer. In contrast, she is portrayed as a duplicitous traitor in Gary Jennings' novel Aztec (1980). A novel published in 2006 by Laura Esquivel portrays the main character as a pawn of history who becomes Malinche.
  • In 1949, choreographer José Limón premiered the dance trio "La Milanche" to music by Norman Lloyd. It was the first work created by Limón for his own company, and was based on his memories as a child of Mexican fiestas.[114]
  • The story of La Malinche is told in Cortez and Marina (1963) by Edison Marshall.
  • In the 1973 Mexican film Leyendas macabras de la colonia, La Malinche's mummy is in the possession of Luisa, her daughter by Hernán Cortés, while her spirit inhabits a cursed painting.
  • La Malinche is referred to in the songs "Cortez the Killer" from the 1975 album Zuma by Neil Young, and "La Malinche" by the French band Feu! Chatterton from their 2015 album Ici le jour (a tout enseveli)
  • In the animated television series The Mysterious Cities of Gold (1982), which chronicles the adventures of a Spanish boy and his companions traveling throughout South America in 1532 to seek the lost city of El Dorado, a woman called Marinche becomes a dangerous adversary. The series was originally produced in Japan, and then translated into English.
  • In the fictional Star Trek universe, a starship, the USS Malinche, was named for La Malinche, and appeared in the 1997 "For the Uniform" episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. This was done by Hans Beimler, a native of Mexico City, who together with friend Robert Hewitt Wolfe later wrote a screenplay based on La Malinche called The Serpent and the Eagle.
  • La Malinche is a key character in the opera La Conquista (2005) by Italian composer Lorenzo Ferrero.
  • Malinalli is the main character in a 2011 historical novel by Helen Heightsman Gordon, Malinalli of the Fifth Sun: The Slave Girl Who Changed the Fate of Mexico and Spain.
  • Author Octavio Paz addresses the issue of La Malinche's role as the mother of Mexican culture in The Labyrinth of Solitude. He uses her relation to Cortés symbolically to represent Mexican culture as originating from rape and violation.
  • Malinal is a character in Graham Hancock's series of novels War God: Nights of the Witch (2013) and War God: Return of the Plumed Serpent (2014), which is a fictional story describing the events related to the Hernan Cortés' expedition to Mexico and the Spanish conquest of the Aztec empire.
  • Malinche is a character in Edward Rickford's The Serpent and the Eagle, referred to variously as Dona Marina and Malintze. The depiction of her character was praised by historical novelists and bloggers.

See also

Notes
  1. The vocative form is used when addressing someone, so "Malintzine" and "Malintze" are more or less equivalent to "O Marina". Although the shortened form “Malintze” is unusual, it appears repeatedly in the Annals of Tlatelolco, alongside “Malintzine”.[11]
  2. Also Malinal,[16] Ce-Malinalli,[5][17] and so forth.
  3. Karttunen (1994, p. 1) gives "ca. 1500" for her birth year, while Townsend (2006, p. 11) writes that she was born before Charles V (who was born in February 1500) turned five.
  4. Malinche's homeland never became part of the Aztec Empire.[29][30] Around the time of the conquest, the region probably consisted of “small, loosely allied city-states”[29] with some degree of influences from the Aztecs and various Maya states, but most are relatively autonomous and paid tribute to no one.[31]
  5. Chontal is closely related to Yucatecan, but they are sufficiently distinct to hamper intelligibility.[50][51] Around this time, it was not uncommon to see traders from the Yucatán Peninsula (who spoke Yucatecan) in the region,[31] and Malinche may have learned the language from them.[50] Alternatively, she may have done some adjustment to be able to converse with speakers of other Maya varieties, which, nevertheless, was rather unusual.[40]
  6. Díaz explained this phenomenon by positing that “Malinche” in reference to Cortés as a shorthand for "Marina's Captain", because she was always in his company.[68] However, according to Townsend, possessive construction in Nahuatl cannot be shortened that way. Moreover, Díaz's theory cannot explain the usage of the name "Malinche" to refer to another Spaniard by the name of Juan Perez de Arteaga,[67] who was learning Nahuatl from her.[69]

References

Citations
  1. Thomas 1993, p. 171–172.
  2. Cypess 1991, p. 7.
  3. Cypess 1991, p. 12-13.
  4. Cypess 1991, p. 2.
  5. Herrera-Sobek 2005, pp. 112–113.
  6. Townsend 2006, p. 12.
  7. Karttunen 1997, p. 292.
  8. Cypess 1991, p. 27.
  9. Townsend 2006, pp. 42, 180–182, 242.
  10. Townsend 2006, p. 55.
  11. Townsend 2006, p. 242.
  12. Karttunen 2001, p. 353.
  13. Karttunen 2001, p. 352.
  14. Restall 2018, p. xiii.
  15. Karttunen 1997, p. 302.
  16. Cypess 1991, p. 33.
  17. Valdeón 2013, pp. 163–164.
  18. Downs 2008, p. 398.
  19. Cypess 1991, pp. 60–61.
  20. Evans 2004, p. 191.
  21. Karttunen 1994, p. 6.
  22. Schroeder et al. 2010, pp. 23, 105.
  23. Cypess 1991, p. 181.
  24. Schroeder et al. 2010, p. 32.
  25. Karttunen 1994, p. 4.
  26. Townsend 2006, p. 11.
  27. Karttunen 1994, p. 1.
  28. Townsend 2006, pp. 13–14.
  29. Evans 2004, p. 522.
  30. Townsend 2006, p. 14.
  31. Chapman 1957, pp. 116–117.
  32. Townsend 2006, pp. 230–232.
  33. Karttunen 1997, pp. 299–301.
  34. Townsend 2006, p. 13.
  35. Townsend 2006, p. 231.
  36. Karttunen 1997, p. 299.
  37. Townsend 2006, pp. 17, 233.
  38. Karttunen 1994, p. 5.
  39. Townsend 2006, p. 16.
  40. Karttunen 1997, pp. 300–301.
  41. Restall 2003, pp. 97–98.
  42. Townsend 2006, p. 22.
  43. Restall 2003, p. 82.
  44. Townsend 2006, pp. 23–24.
  45. Karttunen 1997, pp. 299–300.
  46. Franco 1999, pp. 76–78.
  47. Townsend 2006, pp. 24–25.
  48. Chapman 1957, pp. 135–136.
  49. Townsend 2006, pp. 25–26.
  50. Townsend 2006, p. 26.
  51. Karttunen 1997, p. 300.
  52. Restall 2003, p. 83.
  53. Lockhart 1993, p. 87.
  54. Hassig 2006, pp. 61–63.
  55. Townsend 2006, pp. 35–36.
  56. Karttunen 1997, pp. 301–302.
  57. Townsend 2006, p. 36.
  58. Townsend 2006, p. 37.
  59. Karttunen 1997, p. 301.
  60. Townsend 2006, pp. 40–41.
  61. Hassig 2006, p. 65.
  62. Townsend 2006, p. 53.
  63. Karttunen 1994, p. 7.
  64. Townsend 2006, p. 42.
  65. Hassig 2006, p. 67.
  66. Karttunen 1994, pp. 8–9.
  67. Townsend 2006, pp. 56, 242.
  68. Karttunen 1997, pp. 293–294.
  69. Karttunen 1994, p. 22.
  70. Restall 2003, pp. 84–85.
  71. Hassig 2006, p. 68.
  72. Karttunen 1997, p. 303.
  73. Townsend 2006, p. 43.
  74. Hassig 2006, pp. 69–70.
  75. Townsend 2006, p. 45.
  76. Hassig 2006, pp. 70–74, 77.
  77. Townsend 2006, p. 59.
  78. Hassig 2006, p. 79.
  79. Townsend 2006, pp. 62–63.
  80. Hassig 2006, pp. 86–89.
  81. Townsend 2006, pp. 69–72.
  82. Hassig 2006, p. 93.
  83. Hassig 2006, pp. 43, 94–96.
  84. Hassig 2006, pp. 94–96.
  85. Karttunen 1994, p. 10.
  86. Hassig 2006, pp. 97–98.
  87. Townsend 2006, pp. 81–82.
  88. Hassig 2006, pp. 43, 96.
  89. Restall 2018, p. 210.
  90. Hassig 2006, p. 96.
  91. Restall 2003, p. 77.
  92. Townsend 2006, pp. 86–88.
  93. Townsend 2019, pp. 99, 243.
  94. Karttunen 1994, p. 11.
  95. Gordon, Helen. Voice of the Vanquished: The Story of the Slave Marina and Hernan Cortés. Chicago: University Editions, 1995, page 454.
  96. Chaison, Joanne. "Mysterious Malinche: A Case of Mistaken Identity," The Americas 32, N. 4 (1976).
  97. Townsend 2006, p. 263.
  98. Camilla Townsend, Malintzin's Choices: An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico. University of New Mexico Press, 2006, pp. 168–187.
  99. Townsend, Camilla (2006). Malintzin's choices: an Indian woman in the conquest of Mexico. New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press. pp. 74–76. ISBN 0-8263-3405-9.
  100. Restall, Matthew. Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest
  101. "Mesolore: A research & teaching tool on Mesoamerica". www.mesolore.org.
  102. Brandon, William (2003). The Rise and Fall of North American Indians. Lanham, MD: Roberts Rinehart Publishers. p. 88.
  103. Brandon, William (2003). The Rise and Fall of North American Indians. Lanham, MD: Roberts Rinehart Publishers. p. 88.
  104. Townsend, Camilla (2006). Malintzin's choices: an Indian woman in the conquest of Mexico. New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press. pp.58
  105. Cypess 1991, p. Intro..
  106. Salas
  107. Castellanos, Rosario (1963). "Otra vez Sor Juana" ("Once Again Sor Juana")". Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  108. Rolando Romero (2005-01-01). Feminism, Nation and Myth: La Malinche. Arte Publico Press. pp. 28–. ISBN 978-1-61192-042-0.
  109. Don M. Coerver; Suzanne B. Pasztor; Robert Buffington (2004). Mexico: An Encyclopedia of Contemporary Culture and History. ABC-CLIO. pp. 200–. ISBN 978-1-57607-132-8.
  110. Fortes De Leff, J. (2002). Racism in Mexico: Cultural Roots and Clinical Interventions1. Family Process, 41(4), 619-623.
  111. Cypess 1991, p. 12.
  112. It is time to stop vilifying the "Spanish father of Mexico", accessed 10 June 2019
  113. Potocki, Jan; trans. Ian Maclean (1995). The Manuscript Found at Saragossa. Penguin Books.
  114. "Repertory" Limón

Bibliography
Chapman, Anne M. (1957). "Port of Trade Enclaves in Aztec and Maya Civilizations". In Karl Polanyi; Conrad M. Arensberg; Harry W. Pearson (eds.). Trade and Market in the Early Empires: Economies in History and Theory. New York: Free Press.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
Cypess, Sandra Messinger (1991). La Malinche in Mexican Literature: From History to Myth. Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. ISBN 9780292751347.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
Downs, Kristina (2008). "Mirrored Archetypes: The Contrasting Cultural Roles of La Malinche and Pocahontas". Western Folklore. Long Beach, CA: Western States Folklore Society. 67 (4): 397–414. ISSN 0043-373X. JSTOR 25474939.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
Evans, Susan Toby (2004). Ancient Mexico & Central America: Archaeology and Culture History. London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 9780500284407.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
Franco, Jean (1999). "La Malinche: from gift to sexual contract". In Mary Louise Pratt; Kathleen Newman (eds.). Critical Passions: Selected Essays. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. pp. 66–82. ISBN 9780822322481.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
Hassig, Ross (2006). Mexico and the Spanish Conquest. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 9780806182087.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
Herrera-Sobek, María (2005). "In Search of La Malinche: Pictorial Representations of a Mytho-Historical Figure". In Rolando J. Romero; Amanda Nolacea Harris (eds.). Feminism, Nation and Myth: La Malinche. Houston, TX: Arte Público Press. ISBN 9781611920420.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
Karttunen, Frances (1994). Between Worlds: Interpreters, Guides, and Survivors. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. ISBN 9780813520315.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
——— (1997). "Rethinking Malinche". Indian Women: Gender Differences and Identity in Early Mexico. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 9780806129600.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
——— (2001) [1997]. "Malinche and Malinchismo". Concise Encyclopedia of Mexico. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn. pp. 352–355. ISBN 9781579583378.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
Lockhart, James, ed. (1993). We People Here: Nahuatl Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico. Repertorium Columbianum. 1. Translated by James Lockhart. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. ISBN 9780520078758.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
Restall, Matthew (2003). Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195176117.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
——— (2018). When Montezuma Met Cortés: The True Story of the Meeting that Changed History. New York: Ecco. ISBN 9780062427267.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
Schroeder, Susan; Cruz, Anne J.; Roa-de-la-Carrera, Cristián; Tavárez, David E., eds. (2010). Chimalpahin's Conquest: A Nahua Historian's Rewriting of Francisco Lopez de Gomara's La conquista de Mexico. Translated by Susan Schroeder; Anne J. Cruz; Cristián Roa-de-la-Carrera; David E. Tavárez. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press. ISBN 9780804775069.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
Townsend, Camilla (2006). Malintzin's Choices: An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. ISBN 9780826334053.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
——— (2019). Fifth Sun: A New History of the Aztecs. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780190673062.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
Valdeón, Roberto A. (2013). "Doña Marina/La Malinche: A Historiographical Approach to the Interpreter/Traitor". Target: International Journal of Translation Studies. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. 25 (2): 157–179. doi:10.1075/target.25.2.02val. ISSN 0924-1884.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

Further reading
  • Agogino, George A.; Stevens, Dominique E.; Carlotta, Lynda (1973). "Dona Marina and the legend of La Llorona". Anthropological Journal of Canada. 2 (1): 27–29.
  • Calafell, Bernadette M. (2005). "Pro(re)claiming Loss: a Performance Pilgrimage in Search of Malintzin Tenepal". Text and Performance Quarterly. 25 (1): 43–56.
  • Del Rio, Fanny (2009). La verdadera historia de Malinche. México, D.F.: Grijalbo. ISBN 978-607-429-593-1.
  • Díaz del Castillo, Bernal (1963) [1632]. The Conquest of New Spain. Translated by J.M. Cohen. London: The Folio Society.
  • Fuentes, Patricia de (1963). The Conquistadors: First Person Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico. New York: Orion.
  • Maura, Juan Francisco (1997). Women in the Conquest of the Americas. Translated by John F. Deredita. New York: Peter Lang.
  • Paz, Octavio (1961). The Labyrinth of Solitude. New York: Grove Press.
  • Somonte, Mariano G. (1971). Doña Marina: "La Malinche". Mexico City: Edimex.
  • Thomas, Hugh (1993). Conquest: Montezuma, Cortés, and the Fall of Old Mexico. New York: Simon & Schuster.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Vivancos Pérez, Ricardo F. (2012). "Malinche". In María Herrera-Sobek (ed.). Celebrating Latino Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Cultural Traditions. Vol. II. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO. pp. 750–759.
  • Henderson, James D. (1978). Ten notable women of Latin America. Chicago: Nelson Hall.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.