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La Malinche

Encyclopedia of World Biography Online, Gale, 2022. Gale In Context: Biography.

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"La Malinche was a young linguist forced to serve the Spanish conquerors." Morning Edition, 15 July 2022, p. NA. Gale In Context: Biography.

Malinche and Matriarchal Utopia: Gendered Visions of Indigeneity in Mexico

Taylor, Analisa. “Malinche and Matriarchal Utopia: Gendered Visions of Indigeneity in Mexico.” Signs, vol. 31, no. 3, 2006, pp. 815–40. JSTOR.

Mirrored Archetypes: The Contrasting Cultural Roles of La Malinche and Pocahontas

Downs, Kristina. "Mirrored Archetypes: The Contrasting Cultural Roles of La Malinche and Pocahontas." Western Folklore, vol. 67, no. 4, 2008, pp. 397-414. ProQuest; eLibrary.

Dona Marina, Malinche, Malinchista,
La Chingada, Madre de Mexico.
Lady, consort, traitor, whore,
mother of Mexico. Names like idols
carved into an Aztec breastplate.

Beneath that shield,
the rabbit heart of a child,
a princess sold to Mayan slavers
by her mother.
The heart of a handmaiden
laboring like an ox,
passed from one master
to another, given to Cortes.
The cunning heart of a raven
as she soars
where even dreams
could not take her,
perches close enough to Cortes
to feel his body heat.
The two of them
like right and left wings,
as she translates
Nahuatl to Mayan to Spanish,
negotiates,
saves the lives of Indians
by the thousands.
The fierce heart
of a jaguar
protecting the first-born Mexican,
her son,
Don Martin Cortes.

The heart of a woman
standing on the rim
of the world,
her child on her hip,
watching the ship
that bears Cortes back to Spain
and his wife,
as it shrinks from quetzal
to dove, to hummingbird,
to butterfly, to nothing.

Eleanor, Gayle. "Malinche." Atlanta Review, vol. 16, no. 2, spring-summer 2010, pp. 112+. Gale In Context: Biography,