HUMANITIES: The Magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities

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La Malinche, Hernán Cortés’s Translator and So Much More

The disputed legacy of an Indigenous icon

Angelica Aboulhosn

HUMANITIES, Winter 2023, Volume 44, Number 1

Portrait of La Malinche, her hair in a dense pile of braids

Malinche looks every bit the survivor in Alfredo Ramos Martínez’s glowing portrait.

—Alfredo Ramos Martínez, La Malinche (Young Girl of Yalala, Oaxaca), 1940. Phoenix Art Museum: Museum purchase with funds provided by the Friends of Mexican Art, 1979.86. © The Alfredo Ramos Martínez Research Project. Reproduced with permission.

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Malinche looked every bit the survivor in the exhibition “Traitor, Survivor, Icon: The Legacy of La Malinche.”

—Alfredo Ramos Martínez, La Malinche (Young Girl of Yalala, Oaxaca), 1940. Phoenix Art Museum: Museum purchase with funds provided by the Friends of Mexican Art, 1979.86. © The Alfredo Ramos Martínez Research Project. Reproduced with permission.

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