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Of all the historical characters known from the time of the Spanish
conquest of the New World, none has proved more pervasive or
controversial than that of the Indian interpreter, guide, mistress,
and confidante of Hernan Cortes, Dona Marina - La Malinche -
Malintzin. An Amerindian woman who was given as a gift to Cortes,
she bore him a son whose birth symbolized the intermingling of
races that would form the Mexican nation. She becomes not only the
mother of the mestizo but also the Mexican Eve, the symbol of
national betrayal. Very little documented evidence is available
about Dona Marina. This work - the first serious study tracing La
Malinche in texts from the conquest period to the present day -
covers all genres: the chronicles, narratives, essays, plays, and
poems. It is also the first study to delineate the transformation
of this historical figure into a literary sign with multiple
manifestations. Cypess treats works ranging from
biographical-historical accounts of Cortes' contemporaries to
modern works by Mexican and Chicana authors, including such seldom
analyzed texts as Ireneo Paz's Amor y suplicio and Dona Marina, as
well as new readings of well-known texts like Octavio Paz's El
laberinto de la soledad. Using a feminist perspective, the author
convincingly demonstrates how the literary depiction and
presentation of La Malinche is tied to the political agenda of the
moment. She also shows how the symbol of La Malinche has changed
over time through the impact of sociopolitical events on the
literary expression.
The first major visual and cultural exploration of the legacy of La
Malinche, simultaneously reviled as a traitor to her people and
hailed as the mother of Mexico An enslaved Indigenous girl who
became Hernan Cortes's interpreter and cultural translator,
Malinche stood at center stage in one of the most significant
events of modern history. Linguistically gifted, she played a key
role in the transactions, negotiations, and conflicts between the
Spanish and the Indigenous populations of Mexico that shaped the
course of global politics for centuries to come. As mother to
Cortes's firstborn son, she became the symbolic progenitor of a
modern Mexican nation and a heroine to Chicana and Mexicana
artists. Traitor, Survivor, Icon is the first major publication to
present a comprehensive visual exploration of Malinche's enduring
impact on communities living on both sides of the US-Mexico border.
Five hundred years after her death, her image and legacy remain
relevant to conversations around female empowerment, indigeneity,
and national identity throughout the Americas. This book
establishes and examines her symbolic import and the ways in which
artists, scholars, and activists have appropriated her image to
interpret and express their own experiences and agendas, from the
1500s through today. Published in association with the Denver Art
Museum Exhibition Schedule: Denver Art Museum (February 6-May 8,
2022) Albuquerque Museum (June 11-September 4, 2022) San Antonio
Museum of Art (October 14, 2022-January 8, 2023)
The first English-language book to place the works of Elena Garro
(1916-1998) and Octavio Paz (1914-1998) in dialogue with each
other, Uncivil Wars evokes the lives of two celebrated literary
figures who wrote about many of the same experiences and
contributed to the formation of Mexican national identity but were
judged quite differently, primarily because of gender. While Paz's
privileged, prize-winning legacy has endured worldwide, Garro's
literary gifts garnered no international prizes and received less
attention in Latin American literary circles. Restoring a dual
perspective on these two dynamic writers and their world, Uncivil
Wars chronicles a collective memory of wars that shaped Mexico, and
in turn shaped Garro and Paz, from the Conquest period to the
Mexican Revolution; the Spanish Civil War, which the couple
witnessed while traveling abroad; and the student massacre at
Tlatelolco Plaza in 1968, which brought about social and political
changes and further tensions in the battle of the sexes. The
cultural contexts of machismo and ethnicity provide an equally rich
ground for Sandra Cypess's exploration of the tandem between the
writers' personal lives and their literary production. Uncivil Wars
illuminates the complexities of Mexican society as seen through a
tense marriage of two talented, often oppositional writers. The
result is an alternative interpretation of the myths and realities
that have shaped Mexican identity, and its literary soul, well into
the twenty-first century.
This volume of essays explores what it is that has brought
marginalized and often exiled writers, seen as treacherous,
alienated, and/or queer by their societies and nations together by
way of Paris. Spanning from the inter-war period of the late 1920s
to the present millennium, this volume considers many seminal
questions that have influenced and continue to shape the realm of
exiled writers who have sought refuge in Paris in order to write.
Additionally, the volume's essays seek to define alienation and
marginalization as not solely subscribing to any single denominator
-- sexual preference, gender, or nationality-- but rather as shared
modes of being that allow authors to explore what it is to write
from abroad in a place that is foreign yet freed of the
constrictions of one's home space. What makes Paris a particularly
fruitful space that has allowed these authors and their writings to
cross national, ethnic, racial, religious, and linguistic
boundaries for over a century? What is it that brings together
writers such as Moroccan Abdellah Taia, Americans James Baldwin,
Richard Wright and, most recently, Ta-Nehisi Coates and Shay
Youngblood, Algerian Nabile Fares, Franco-Algerian Leila Sebbar,
Canadian Nancy Huston, French Jean Genet and French-Vietnamese
Linda Le? How do their representations and understanding of
transgression and marginalization transcend national, linguistic
and ethnic boundaries, leading ultimately to revolution, both
literary and literal? How does their writing help us to trace the
history of Paris as a literary and artistic capital that has been
useful for authors' exploration of the Self, race and home country?
These are but a few of the many questions explored in this volume.
This book relies on an inherently intersectional approach, which is
not based in reified identities, whether they be LGBT,
postcolonial, ethnic, national, or linguistic. Instead, we posit
that, for example, queer theory, and a "politics of difference"i
can help us investigate the dynamics of these multiple identity
positions, and hence provide a broader understanding of the lived
experiences of these writers, and, perhaps, their readers from the
early 1940s to the present.
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