Traitor, Survivor, Icon

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The Legacy of La Malinche

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Traitor, Survivor, Icon offers the first major visual and cultural examination of La Malinche, the Indigenous interpreter and cultural translator who played a pivotal role in Hernán Cortés’s conquest of Mexico. This lavish publication explores how Malinche’s complex legacy as both a perceived traitor and a maternal figure of modern Mexico continues to resonate across the US-Mexico border. Through art, scholarship, and activism spanning five centuries, the book reveals her enduring significance in discussions of female empowerment, indigeneity, and national identity.
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This visually rich and scholarly work is ideal for readers interested in Latin American history, Indigenous studies, art and culture, as well as those exploring themes of identity, feminism, and postcolonial narratives.

The first major visual and cultural exploration of the legacy of La Malinche, simultaneously reviled as a traitor to her people and hailed as the mother of Mexico

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The first major visual and cultural exploration of the legacy of La Malinche, simultaneously reviled as a traitor to her people and hailed as the mother of Mexico.

An enslaved Indigenous girl who became Hernán Cortés’s interpreter and cultural translator, Malinche stood at centre stage in one of the most significant events of modern history. Linguistically gifted, she played a key role in the transactions, negotiations, and conflicts between the Spanish and the Indigenous populations of Mexico that shaped the course of global politics for centuries to come. As mother to Cortés’s firstborn son, she became the symbolic progenitor of a modern Mexican nation and a heroine to Chicana and Mexicana artists.

Traitor, Survivor, Icon is the first major publication to present a comprehensive visual exploration of Malinche’s enduring impact on communities living on both sides of the US-Mexico border. Five hundred years after her death, her image and legacy remain relevant to conversations around female empowerment, indigeneity, and national identity throughout the Americas. This lavish book establishes and examines her symbolic import and the ways in which artists, scholars, and activists through time have appropriated her image to interpret and express their own experiences and agendas from the 1500s through today.

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Traitor, Survivor, Icon has been widely recognised and awarded, including as an Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award finalist sponsored by the College Art Association, a 2023 PROSE Award Finalist in the Art Exhibitions category, and winner of the 2023 Thoma Foundation Exhibition Catalogue Award, sponsored by the Association for Latin American Art.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780300258981

Publisher: Yale University Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 08 February 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: Yale University Press

Illustration: 141 color + 10 b-w illus.

Contributors:

Contributions by Sandra Messinger Cypess
Edited by Terezita Romo
Edited by Victoria I. Lyall
Contributions by Karen Cordero
Contributions by Ines Hernandez-Avila
Contributions by Camilla Townsend
Contributions by Alicia Gaspar de Alba
Contributions by Charlene Villasenor Black
Contributions by Emmanuel Ortega

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 229.0mm

Height: 279.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 224

Collections

American & Canadian History Arts & Culture Education & Reference History & Archaeology History & Military Non-Fiction

About the Author

Victoria I. Lyall is the Frederick and Jan Mayer Curator of Art of the Ancient Americas at the Denver Art Museum. Terezita Romo is lecturer and affiliate faculty in the Chicana/o Studies Department at University of California–Davis.