Hernán Cortés and La Malinche

Hernán Cortés and La Malinche
Author: John A. Torres
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2018-12-15
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 0766098168

To this day, the relationship between Hernán Cortés and his translator La Malinche remains confusing. Was Cortés a double-crossing murderer or a heroic conqueror? Was La Malinche, an enslaved woman from Aztec royalty, an intelligent woman doing what was necessary to stay alive or the betrayer of her people? The history books have not been kind to her. However you view this pair, one thing is clear: their stories cannot be told without linking their biographies. As your readers will find out, there is little doubt that their pairing forever changed Mexico and the Americas.

Traitor, Survivor, Icon

Traitor, Survivor, Icon
Author: Victoria I. Lyall
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2022-03-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0300258984

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 Hernán Cortés'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 Cortés'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 lavish book establishes and examines her symbolic import and the ways in which artists, scholars, and activists through time have appropriated her image to interpret and express their own experiences and agendas from the 1500s through today.

La Malinche

La Malinche
Author: Rodrigue Lévesque
Publisher: Rodrigue Levesque
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2007
Genre: Aztec women
ISBN: 0969036744

La Malinche

La Malinche
Author: Laura Loria
Publisher: Encyclopaedia Britannica
Total Pages: 56
Release: 2017-07-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1680486527

"Women's contributions throughout history are often overlooked or minimized when compared to those of men. Readers will learn the true story of Malinche, a slave girl who was instrumental in the Spanish conquest of Mexico. Her courageous but brief life is examined, focusing on her time with explorer Hern�n Cort�s. Myth and fact are discussed and explained, with primary sources to illustrate this period in Mexican history. Readers will connect with the story of a young person who bravely endured terrible circumstances to change Mexico forever in the 1500s. Her legacy in Mexico, folklore, art, and politics endures today."

Malintzin's Choices

Malintzin's Choices
Author: Camilla Townsend
Publisher: UNM Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2006
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780826334053

The complicated life of the real woman who came to be known as La Malinche.

La Malinche

La Malinche
Author: Francisco Serrano
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781554981113

Nonfiction curricular texts for Social Studies Grade 5: Early Latin American Civilizations the Inca, Aztec, and Maya.

Aztec

Aztec
Author: Colin Falconer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2013-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781621250944

The daughter if a prophet and the child slave of Spanish adventurer Hernan Cortes, the life of the Aztec princess Malinali is one of the most enduring legends of Mexico. Her role in history divides opinion even today. Reviled by some as a traitor responsible for the destruction of the Indians, worshiped by others as a heroine and symbolic mother of the nation, hers is the most extraordinary story in the history of the Americas. The legendary Aztec civilization is here brought to life in blazing colour, as the author traces the story of the enigmatic Malinali who held for a moment the future of an entire country in her hands. Contradictory, sensuous and fiercely intelligent, Malinali became the key to Cortes conquest of Mexico. It is a story of impossible odds, unimaginable cruelty, extraordinary courage and craven betrayal. Who were the heroes and who the villains? Today the Aztecs are a distant memory. But Malinali's name lives on. This book spent four months on the best seller lists in Mexico, re-igniting debate yet again about the true heritage of a people and the very nature of western colonisation of the natural world.

Malinche

Malinche
Author: Laura Esquivel
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2008-12-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1847397182

An extraordinary retelling of the passionate and tragic love between the conquistador Cortez and the Indian woman Malinalli, his interpreter during his conquest of the Aztecs. Malinalli's Indian tribe has been conquered by the warrior Aztecs. When her father is killed in battle, she is raised by her wisewoman grandmother who imparts to her the knowledge that their founding forefather god, Quetzalcoatl, had abandoned them after being made drunk by a trickster god and committing incest with his sister. But he was determined to return with the rising sun and save her tribe from their present captivity. Wheh Malinalli meets Cortez she, like many, suspects that he is the returning Quetzalcoatl, and assumes her task is to welcome him and help him destroy the Aztec empire and free her people. The two fall passionately in love, but Malinalli gradually comes to realize that Cortez's thirst for conquest is all too human, and that for gold and power, he is willing to destroy anyone, even his own men, even their own love.

The New World of Martin Cortes

The New World of Martin Cortes
Author: Anna Lanyon
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2003
Genre: Conspiracies
ISBN: 9781865087283

Lanyon looks at the absorbing and fascinating life of Cortes--the illegitimate son of a conquistador and an indigenous American woman--who lived grandly and suffered greatly in the new and old worlds of 16th century Spain.