A La Malinche exhibit at SAMA, theatrical performance at Brick at Blue Star, and new hip hop project from Andrea “Vocab” Sanderson celebrate and examine the role of contemporary and historical women.
, a theatrical performance, Nov. 3 at the Brick at Blue Star Arts Complex.The young woman who would come to be known as La Malinche was taken by conquistador Hernán Cortés in 1519 as a slave and allowed no voice of her own in historical records, though she became an indispensable and consequential component of the Spanish conquest and subsequent colonialization.
San Antonio poet Carmen Tafolla’s 1978 poem “La Malinche” is quoted in the introduction and exhibition and appears in the catalog in full. Tafolla said the scholars behind the show approached her for the poem because it was the first they’d seen that gives voice to La Malinche herself, with the opening line “Yo soy la Malinche.”
Through her formative experiences, she learned at least three languages, Nahuatl, Maya, and Spanish, and thus achieved a crucial position as interpreter in Cortés’ retinue as he marched his armies across what would become New Spain. She bore Cortés a son named Martín, and later married a Spanish nobleman and gave birth to a daughter named María.
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