Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: In Tres veces tres. In Malintzin's code: Nine approaches to her figure, Yasnaya revisits one of the characters with whom possibly a large part of Mexicans encounter during their early years of history class in primary school. That female character, proficient in the Spanish language, "facilitated" the interaction between the Spaniards and the inhabitants of Tenochtitlán during the conquest, from which the term "malinchista" or "malinchism" derives, denoting disdain towards things pertaining to Mexico. While the semantic process of words is the result of multiple factors within language and society, Yasnaya proposes a reclamation of the figure and name of the character from which these adjectives arise, Malintzin.
Source: Revista Lengua y Cultura
Author: Andrea César López
Institution: Shanghai University
Language: English
Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4404060922