Deena J. Gonzalez’s essay and Rolando J. Romero’s essay concern themselves with similar topics, but each one has a different approach to delivering their arguments and organizing their ideas. While Gonzalez takes a more individual approach to analyzing the truth behind Malinche, Romero compares her to La Virgen de Guadalupe. Both of these writers take an approach that sees Malinche as someone who got the short end of the stick.
In Gonzalez’s essay, “Malinche Triangulated, Historically Speaking,” she argues that the popular portrayal of Malinche is completely imagined in that she is unreal, much like the Disney Pocahontas movie where very little is based on the reality. Gonzalez questions the accuracy of the popular perception of Malinche. Finding the reality about Malinche underneath all the bias is seen as unraveling or uncovering the truth. Malinche is often described as a tainted, violated traitor, whereas Cortes and his representation of a Spanish faced no harsh description. How can Cortes not be accused of being a deadbeat dad, while Malinche gets condemned as a whore any way you look at it? …show more content…
Both writers think Malinche was overshadowed by Guadalupe, causing Malinche to be associated with negative traits like illegitimacy, and Guadalupe with the positive traits her society valued. Over time Malinche starts to gain better reputation since both essays point out controversies where Guadalupe is no longer the role model that feminists want to follow. Guadalupe wasn’t truly representing Mexicans as legitimate products of the Spanish conquest. The virgin also lacked full representation of natives since she was a modification of Tonantzin, made to fit the beliefs of the Spanish. Malinche started to fill in these gaps because she was racialized, and she had the values that feminists today look up to. Through the support of Chicanas, Malinche may finally catch a
In Gonzalez’s essay, “Malinche Triangulated, Historically Speaking,” she argues that the popular portrayal of Malinche is completely imagined in that she is unreal, much like the Disney Pocahontas movie where very little is based on the reality. Gonzalez questions the accuracy of the popular perception of Malinche. Finding the reality about Malinche underneath all the bias is seen as unraveling or uncovering the truth. Malinche is often described as a tainted, violated traitor, whereas Cortes and his representation of a Spanish faced no harsh description. How can Cortes not be accused of being a deadbeat dad, while Malinche gets condemned as a whore any way you look at it? …show more content…
Both writers think Malinche was overshadowed by Guadalupe, causing Malinche to be associated with negative traits like illegitimacy, and Guadalupe with the positive traits her society valued. Over time Malinche starts to gain better reputation since both essays point out controversies where Guadalupe is no longer the role model that feminists want to follow. Guadalupe wasn’t truly representing Mexicans as legitimate products of the Spanish conquest. The virgin also lacked full representation of natives since she was a modification of Tonantzin, made to fit the beliefs of the Spanish. Malinche started to fill in these gaps because she was racialized, and she had the values that feminists today look up to. Through the support of Chicanas, Malinche may finally catch a