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The main players in the Spanish–Aztec War (1519–21)
are well known: Hernán Cortés and Montezuma. Lesser-known,
though no less important, is a multilingual exiled Aztec woman
who was enslaved, then served as a guide and interpreter, then
became Cortés's mistress. She was known as Doña Marina, and
as La Malinche.
Scholar and researcher Cordelia Candelaria writes: her
paramount value to the Spaniards was not merely linguistic.
She was an interpreter/liaison who served as a guide to the
region, as an advisor on native customs and beliefs, and as a
strategist.
La Malinche was the daughter of an Aztec cacique
(chief). This gave her an unusual level of education, which she
would later leverage as a guide and interpreter for the Spanish.
Throughout Cortés's travels, she became indispensable as a
translator, not only capable of functionally translating from one
language to the other, but of speaking compellingly,
strategizing, and forging political connections.
Integral as she was to Spain's success, La Malinche is a
controversial figure. Candelaria quotes T. R. Fehrenbach as
saying, "If there is one villainess in Mexican history, she is La
Malinche. She was to become the ethnic traitress supreme."
But Candelaria argues that La Malinche's act of turning her back
on her own people makes more psychological sense when we
consider that, at a young age, she had been sold by her own
mother into slavery. Candelaria asks, "What else could this
outcast from the Aztecs, 'her own people,' have done?"
Disponível em https://daily.jstor.org/. Adaptado.
Segundo o texto, em relação à imagem de La Malinche como
traidora do povo Asteca, a pesquisadora Cordelia Candelaria
argumenta que a intérprete