La Malinche

"La Malinche." Slave, interpreter, secretary, mistress, mother of the first "Mexican." her very name still stirs up controversy. Many Mexicans continue to revile the woman called Doña Marina by the Spaniards and La Malinche by the Aztecs, labeling her a traitor and harlot for her role as the alter-ego of Cortes as he conquered Mexico. They ignore that she saved thousands of Indian lives by enabling Cortes to negotiate rather than slaughter. Her ability to communicate also enabled

The legend, La Llorona or the weeping woman is one of the best known classic Hispanic tales. Many versions of La Llorona are told universally, but has origin roots from Mexico. This folklore typically involves a restless, ghostly entity as a beautiful lady dressed in white who wanders at night and is seen or heard wailing for her dead children. Because of a heartbreak la Llorona killed her own children. It is said that her soul now wanders sadly calling her children appearing mysteriously in different

Inez Frias Profesor Calleros Spanish 129 12/3/17 La Llorona Existen varias versiones de la leyenda de La Llorona, tantas que quizá sea imposible contarlas todas. Esta historia se considera no un mito, sino una leyenda. Tiene un origen basado en una persona real, pero se ha convertido en leyenda a través de los anos. Esta leyenda es una faceta importante de la cultura latina porque ha sobrevivido por cinco siglos, se a incorporado en cultura moderna, y es muy posible que se siga contando en los anos

La Malinche went from being interpreted as a chingada to a chingona (a badass). The historical interpretation of Maliche as a weak and fatal historical figure is an example of a patriarchal (machista) way of interpreting history, due to the fact that patriarchy is ingrained in the Chicana/o culture. In opposition to the patriarchy, contemporary Chicana/o authors like Lucha Corpi and Michael Nava through their work challenge it and offer a reinterpretation of previously neglected historical figures

After being sold into slavery as a child, having learned two different languages, La Malinche eventually helped a man conquer a whole society. On one hand, La Malinche was one of the bravest women in humanity, but on the other, she had the guts to stab her people in the back. Her behaviour is a symbol for everyone that will never be forgotten. Many feminists today express their feeling in that La Malinche (Dona Maria) is the reason why Mexican men disrespect Mexican women, this expressed in Mexico’s

colonize the The New World. This complicates everything because Cortés is trying to colonize the Mexicans and La Malinche is a Mexican who most likely wants to protect her people. His relationship with

this outcome. Like any other story there is a woman helping out these men, and Cortés could have possibly never been able to conquer the Aztecs without her help, her name was La Malinche. With her help and ability to speak with the Aztec people Cortés was able to communicate with the Aztecs that helped him conquer. Yet La Malinche is to some considered a traitor to her people for her role in the conquest, thought it is overlooked that she was also the reason many of the Aztec lives were spared by Cortés

The above image is a painting by Antonio Ruiz and is called “El sueño de la Malinche” meaning “The Dream of Malinche”. It depicts a Mexican town within the Aztec Empire, that is built upon a resting woman named Malinche. The image depicts the woman sleeping with the the Mexican city lying on her, therefore with one toss or turn being catastrophic to the city, and is further depicted to have lightning striking her head, which means to further risk the Mexican City being destroyed by Malinche’s action

Mexican myths: La Malinche, La Llorona, and La Virgen de Guadalupe. Mainly addressing her professors and other academics, she writes about myth, history, and culture. Although she speaks urgently about her opinions, her kairos is timeless because the myths still influence Latino culture today. She depicts the female archetype and how Mexican Americans are “categorized” by these roles as women. Using Gloria Anzaldúa’s La Frontera, she describes the three roles in Chicana literature: La Malinche is the mother

mythical rewrite is necessary to the demands of rewriting ideological and cultural norms that manage the theoretical framework. In Chicana/o culture three female shapes, La Malinche, La Llorona, and La Virgen de Gudalupe, separate the cultural borders of female behavior. Gloria Anzaldua proclaims in the Borderlands/La Frontera, La gente Chicana tiene