Contextualizing Malinche. Review of Camilla Townsend's <em> Malintzin’s Choices: An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico </em> (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006)
Resumen
Camilla Townsend’s meticulously researched narrative of the Spanish seizure of power in sixteenth-century Mexico ably places a much-maligned historical figure back into her proper historical context. The woman in question, “Malintzin” in the language of Moctezuma, was the interpreter for the Spanish expedition leader, Hernando Cortés. Townsend makes her come alive as one who played an essential role through an epic transitional period in Mexican history.
Publicado
2007-02-01
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