LibGuides: SPA 601: Spanish Capstone: Topic 2

Getting Started

Write out your research question in its broadest form:

Example: How has La Chingada/La Malinche been perceived throughout history?

What other questions would you need to answer?

Examples:
- Which historical periods do you want to compare?
- How do you want to measure popular perception? Literature; Journals/News stories/Primary sources; Religion and Mythology?
- Will you address the "historical accuracy" of these perceptions?
- Why was she portrayed this way? Why such strong emotions on both sides?
- How have the political, social, religious, etc. situations in Mexico influenced these perceptions?

Now, how do you use these questions to generate search terms? Identify the main nouns in each of your subquestions and use AND and OR to combine them in various ways

Examples:
- La Malinche AND (Mythology OR Religion)
- La Malinche AND Literature
- La Malinche AND "Popular Perception"
- La Malinche AND (Histor* OR Accura*)

Think about synonyms for those terms. For example, what other names was she known by? La Chingada, Dona Marina, Marina, Malintzin, others?

Recommended Databases

Literature, Mythology, Religion

History

Social Sciences

Gender Watch
Social Science Full Text

Don't forget to search in Academic Search Complete - it's a great multidisciplinary database and might provide some perspectives you hadn't even considered.

Library Resources

The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature by Ilan Stavans
Call Number: Print Book: PS508 .H57 N65 2011
ISBN: 9780393080070
Publication Date: 2010-09-13
The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature traces four centuries of writing, from letters to the Spanish crown by sixteenth-century conquistadors to the cutting-edge expressions of twenty-first-century cartoonistas and artists of reggaeton. In six chronological sections-Colonization, Annexation, Acculturation, Upheaval, Into the Mainstream, and Popular Traditions-it encompasses all genres, featuring such writers as Jose Marti, William Carlos Williams, Julia Alvarez, Oscar Hijuelos, Cristina Garcia, Piri Thomas, Esmeralda Santiago, and Junot Diaz.
Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest by Matthew Restall
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9781280503184
Publication Date: 2003-01-01
The book offers a fresh account of the activities of the best-known conquistadors and explorers, including Columbus, Cortes, and Pizarro. Using a wide array of sources, historian Matthew Restall highlights seven key myths, uncovering the source of the inaccuracies and exploding the fallacies and misconceptions behind each myth.
Translation and the Spanish Empire in the Americas by Roberto A. Valdeón
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9027269408
Publication Date: 2014-11-14
On the one hand, the use of Doña Marina/La Malinche as a symbol of the violation of the Americas by the Spanish conquerors as well as a metaphor of her treason to the Mexican people. On the other, the role of the translations of Bartolomé de las Casas's Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias in the creation and expansion of the Spanish Black Legend. The author aims to go beyond them by considering the role of translators and interpreters during the early colonial period in Spanish America
Feminism, Nation and Myth: La Malinche by Rolando Romero
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9781611920420
Publication Date: 2005-01-01
Collection of essays, conference papers, and proceedings centering on La Malinche
Critical Passions by Jean Franco; Mary Louise Pratt (Editor); Kathleen M. Newman (Editor)
Call Number: Print Book: F1408.3 .F85 1999
ISBN: 9780822322481
Publication Date: 1999-11-29
Jean Franco's work played a crucial role in developing cultural studies in the English and Spanish speaking worlds. Containing Franco's essays, this book is organised into four sections: feminism and the critique of authoritarianism, mass and popular culture, Latin American literature from the "boom" onward, and the cultural history of Mexico.
The History of the Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Díaz del Castillo; David Carrasco (Translator)
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9780826342881
Publication Date: 2008-01-01
eight useful interpretive essays that address indigenous religions and cultural practices, sexuality during the early colonial period, the roles of women in indigenous cultures, and analysis of the political and economic purposes behind Diaz del Castillo's narrative. A series of maps illuminate the routes of the conquistadors, the organization of indigenous settlements, the struggle for the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan, as well as the disastrous Spanish journey to Honduras.
Invasion and Transformation: interdisciplinary perspectives on the conquest of Mexico by Rebecca P. Brienen (Editor); Margaret A. Jackson (Editor); Rebecca Parker Brienen
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9781607320012
Publication Date: 2007-12-15
Troubled memories: iconic Mexican women and the traps of representation by Oswaldo Estrada
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9781438471914
Publication Date: 2018
Oswaldo Estrada traces the literary representations of several iconic Mexican women in the midst of neoliberalism, gender debates, and the widespread commodification of cultural memory. Specifically, Estrada examines recent fictionalizations of Malinche, Hernán Cortés's indigenous translator during the Conquest of Mexico; Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, the famous baroque intellectual of New Spain; Leona Vicario, a supporter of the Mexican War of Independence; the soldaderas (women soldiers) of the Mexican Revolution, popularly known as Adelitas; and Frida Kahlo, the tormented painter of the twentieth century.