Malintzin's Choices: An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico

by Camilla Townsend

Book Overview

Malintzin was the indigenous woman who translated for Hernando Cort?s in his dealings with the Aztec emperor Moctezuma in the days of 1519 to 1521. "Malintzin," at least, was what the Indians called her. The Spanish called her do?a Marina, and she has become known to posterity as La Malinche. As Malinche, she has long been regarded as a traitor to her people, a dangerously sexy, scheming woman who gave Cort?s whatever he wanted out of her own self-interest.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826334059
• ISBN13: 9780826334053
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 303 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.9" x 6.0"