Example sentences for: malinche

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  • Octavio Paz writes of La Malinche as the “violated woman,” La Chingada, and his writings have influenced several generations of Mexicanos and Chicanos in seeing the Mexican people as “hijos de la chingada,” that is, “sons of a conquest by rape.”

  • Upon learning her name, Cortés had her christened as Doña Marina, and she became known to everyone by that name, although her Aztec name was Malintzin, which possibly the Spaniards pronounced Malinche, so she was also called by this name.

  • Some scholars regard La Malinche as the archetype of La Llorona and others think of her as the original Llorona (weeping woman), while some consider her to be the source of La Llorona legend.

  • Contemporary texts of La Llorona collected in Mexico assert that the original Llorona was La Malinche, the mistress of Cortés.

  • Malinche and La Virgen de Guadalupe are two archetypes of womanhood in Mexico and in the Southwest, the whore and the virgin, who symbolize the precarious dilemma of being female.


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