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American Historical Review: Can anything new be said about Malintzin (Doña Marina, La Malinche), Hernán Cortés's Nahuatl-speaking interpreter during the conquest of the Aztecs? Ethnohistorical research has already recovered the outlines of the remarkable woman who lies beneath popular images of traitor, whore, victim, & mother of the mestizo Mexican nation, & has reevaluated conquest history from indigenous points of view. Yet Camilla Townsend quickly convinced this reader that the tracesof the “real” Malintzin merit a book-length elaboration, & she sets these traces into an extensively researched & delightfully absorbing story. Given the limited & often contradictory evidence, it is more a book about Malintzin's “contexts” than a conventional biography, & Townsend dabbles in the “what would she have felt?” speculations that bedevil biographers of poorly documented subjects. But although her conjectures sometimes cross into the fanciful, they are never jarring or absurd, & she often presents multiple possible scenarios.Malintzin's childhood name is unknown; “Malintzin” is a Nahuatl adaptation of the Spanish baptismal name, Marina, assigned to her after the Mayas of Putunchan gave h

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Author

Camilla Townsend

Publisher

University of New Mexico Press

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780826334060

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Biography, Memoir