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By comparing the intersecting histories of interpretation of Mary
Magdalene, a first-century disciple of Jesus, and La Malinche, a
sixteenth-century Mesoamerican woman enslaved by the Spanish
conquistadores, Jennifer Vija Pietz critically evaluates the use of
past lives to address contemporaneous concerns. She demonstrates
how the earliest sources portray each woman as an agent in the
foundation of a new community: Magdalene's proclamation of Jesus's
resurrection helped form the first Christian community, while La
Malinche's role as interpreter between Spanish and native people
during the Conquest helped establish modern Mexico. Pietz then
argues that over time, various interpreters turn these real women
into malleable icons that they use to negotiate changing
conceptions of communal identity and norms. Strikingly, popular
portraits develop of both women as archetypal whores who represent
transgression-portraits that some women have experienced as
harmful. Although other interpreters present contrary portraits of
Magdalene and La Malinche as admirable emblems of female
empowerment, Pietz argues that the tendency to turn real people
into icons risks producing stereotypes that can obscure past lives
and negatively affect people in the present. In response, she
posits strategies for developing historically plausible and
ethically responsible interpretations of people of the past.
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