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La Malinche in Mexican literature : from history to myth / Sandra Messinger Cypess.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cypess, Sandra Messinger, author.
- Series:
- Texas Pan American Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Marina, approximately 1505-approximately 1530--In literature.
- Marina.
- Mexican literature--History and criticism.
- Mexican literature.
- Mexico--History--Conquest, 1519-1540--Literature and the conquest.
- Mexico.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (277 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Austin, Texas : University of Texas Press, [1991]
- Summary:
- This is the first serious study tracing La Malinche in texts from the conquest period to the present day.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. La Malinche as Palimpsest
- 2. Aztec Society before the Conquest
- 3. The Creation of Doña Marina in the Colonial Period
- 4. Eve and the Serpent: The Nationalists' View
- 5. Doña Marina Recast: From the Postintervention Period to 1950
- 6. La Malinche on Stage
- 7. Re/visions of the Cultural Metaphor
- 8. Re/formation of the Tradition by Chicana Writers
- 9. The Malinche Paradigm as Subtext
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780292758728
- 0292758723
- OCLC:
- 1511479732
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