In the book La Malinche in Mexican Literature, the author Sandra Cypess is presenting not only her own, but also other authors findings, evaluations and ideological agendas about La Malinche. She does not expect for the reader to mirror what it is she is describing about La Malinche for she writes with a feminist perspective and knows that it can be tempered by cultural biases. She wants the reader to understand that they don’t have to read it the way she sees it but, however it is they feel about it. There is a contrast between earlier interpretations of La Malinche and her own which shows us, the readers, how ideology is encoded.
When comes to previous writings about La Malinche, no one has really written about her in the depth that Cypess does. Cypess’s book is a h
Although some have considered her a traitor, many Mexican women consider La Malinche a great historical figure, one whose unfair criticism of character is comparable to their own. Very little documented evidence is available about Dona Marina. La Malinche by Cypess is the first serious study tracing Dona Marina in books from the Conquest period to the present day. “It is also the first study to outline the transformation of this historical figure into a literary sign with multiple manifestations,” (University of Arizona Text). Cypess pools information and evidence form books that she sights as primary sources, such as, The Conquest of New Spain by Bernal, Hernan Corte’s Letters From Mexico and Gomara’s Historia de la conquista de Mexico. These are all works of fict
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