Teachings of the interpretations of Malintzin in today's context

Abstract

In Tres veces tres. In Malintzin's code: Nine approaches to her figure, Yasnaya revisits one of the characters with whom possibly a large part of Mexicans encounter during their early years of history class in primary school. That female character, proficient in the Spanish language, "facilitated" the interaction between the Spaniards and the inhabitants of Tenochtitlán during the conquest, from which the term "malinchista" or "malinchism" derives, denoting disdain towards things pertaining to Mexico. While the semantic process of words is the result of multiple factors within language and society, Yasnaya proposes a reclamation of the figure and name of the character from which these adjectives arise, Malintzin.

Keywords

• malintzin
• spanish
• indigenous languages
• mexico
• multilingualism