Feminism, Nation and Myth explores the scholarship of La Malinche, the indigenous woman who is said to have led Cortés and his troops to the Aztec city of Tenochtitlán. The figure of La Malinche has generated intense debate among literature and cultural studies scholars. Drawing from the humanities and the social sciences, feminist studies, queer studies, Chicana/o studies, and Latina/o studies, critics and theorists in this volume analyze the interaction and interdependence of race, class, and gender. Studies of La Malinche demand that scholars disassemble and reconstruct concepts of nation, community, agency, subjectivity, and social activism.
This volume originated in the 1999 U.S. Latina/Latino Perspectives on la Malinche conference that brought together scholars from across the nation. Filmmaker Dan Banda interviewed many of the presenters for his documentary, Indigenous Always: The Legend of La Malinche and the Conquest of Mexico.
- Cover
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Critical Introduction. La Malinche and Post-Movement Feminism. Amanda Nolacea Harris
- Malinche Triangulated
- Post Scriptum and Self-Critique. José Emilio Pacheco
- Doña Marina. José Emilio Pacheco
- Malinchista, A Myth Revised. Alicia Gaspar de Alba
- Malinche Triangulated, Historically Speaking. Deena J. González
- Malinche and Gendered Histories
- “Mother” Malinche and Allegories of Gender, Ethnicity and National Identity in Mexico. Sandra Messinger Cypess
- Foundational Motherhood: Malinche/Guadalupe in Contemporary Mexican and Chicana/Chicano Culture. Rolando J. Romero
- Malinche’s Revenge. Alicia Gaspar de Alba
- Malinche Cuerpo de Mujer
- Aesthetics of Sex and Race. Alfred Arteaga
- Coagulated Words: Gaspar de Alba’s Malinche. Debra A. Castillo
- Malinche et al.
- Malinche, Calafia y Toypurina: Of Myths, Monsters and Embodied History. Antonia I. Castañeda
- Calafia: The Body of Myth
- Myth and History: Archiving the Body
- India/Mestiza Bodies: La Historia Encarnada
- Toypurina’s Line: Oppositional Bodies
- Malinche’s Tongues
- Conclusion
- Agustín Víctor Casasola's Soldaderas: Malinchismo and the Chicana/o Artist. Guisela Latorre
- Malinche Myth and Metaphor
- In Search of La Malinche: Pictorial Representations of a Mytho-Historical Figure. María Herrera-Sobek
- The Malinche-Llorona Dichotomy: The Evolution of a Myth. Luis Leal
- La Malinche as Metaphor. Tere Romo
- Conclusion Malinche, c’est moi!
- Malinche Makeover: One Gay Latino’s Perspective. Franco Mondini-Ruiz
- Living in Tongues. Amanda Nolacea Harris
- Contributors
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