La Malinche

(“It is traditional belief…exchange for a new life.” Pg. 67) Rodriguez also argues that Malinche was disowned by her tribe for becoming a translator and a mistress for Cortez. Romero and Harris state that La Malinche was also known as La Llorona (“Some say that the spirit of La Malinche is La Llorona. Here Gaspar de Alba succinctly summarizes a classical variation of the malice story/myth.” pg.67) Rodriguez never stated in his passage that Malinche was also known as La Llorona. It must be a story/myth that was made up over the years in Mexico. Romero and Harris state that because of the betrayal of Malinches’ tribe she is given a consequence of the eternally fighting, uncanny, ghost/undead corpse. (“The indigenous women betrays her people to the Spanish conquestor by serving both as an interpreter and mistress for Hernan Cortez; thereafter, “malinchita” in Mexican usage evokes the sense of an unpatriotic betrayal of the nation to foreign interests; as a consequence, the eternally frightening, uncanny, ghost/undead corpse, La Llorona measures out her fit punishment.” Pg. 67). Rodriguez does not specifically state that she is given a punishment as such stated by Romero and Harris but Malinche is punished by her tribe for leaving. La Llorona is a myth that the Mexican culture, (“In these oral permutations of history, La Malinche becomes La Llorona, her son by Cortez becomes La Llorona’s archetypal victim, as popular report and folklore shift and change historical record to…

La Malinche went from being interpreted as a chingada to a chingona (a badass). The historical interpretation of Maliche as a weak and fatal historical figure is an example of a patriarchal (machista) way of interpreting history, due to the fact that patriarchy is ingrained in the Chicana/o culture. In opposition to the patriarchy, contemporary Chicana/o authors like Lucha Corpi and Michael Nava through their work challenge it and offer a reinterpretation of previously neglected or…

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La Llorana is a very well-known and widespread urban legend in Mexico and has become just as prevalent in America with the Mexican-American cultural influence of the media, such as horror movies, TV series, and novels. This legend has been passed down from generation to generation as part of the tradition embedded in the Mexican culture and as a result, there are many different interpretations of La Llorana, such as what she looks like as well as what her story is. The fact is this myth is only…

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