Imaginaires de l’Altérité. Malintzin : la parole et l’image de l’Autre dans la Conquête de l’Amérique
Malintzin: The Speech and the Image of the Other in the Conquest of America

Summary/Abstract: Malintzin, The Malinche, or Doña Marina, mistress and interpreter of Hernán Cortés during the Conquest of Mexico (1519), has remained a controversial figure to this day. A mythical and historical figure, in the imagination and sensibility of Mexicans, she has been considered by some to be sacred, while others have perceived her as evil-minded and have condemned her to silence. Was the Malinche a traitor that delivered hernation to foreign interests? Was she a victim of abandonment, ingratitude and voracity? Can she be considered today a paradigm of multiculturalism? The transfigured symbol of a fragmented identity?

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