Reinscribing Malinche in Contemporary Visual Art Metaphors of Malinche at the Denver Art Museum Exhibition “Traitor, Survivor, Icon: The Legacy of la Malinche” (2022)

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.14232/actahisp.2023.28.131-147
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The Conquest of Mesoamerica, Malinche, Contemporary Reception, Visual Art, Cultural Metaphors

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Ágnes Zsófia Kovács
University of Szeged
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6259-142X

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Malinche was an indigenous slave woman who helped Cortés communicate with and understand native chiefs during the conquest of Mexico. This paper analyzes the way the Denver Art Museum represented cultural metaphors of Malinche in visual culture in its 2022 show titled “Traitor, Survivor, Icon: The Legacy of La Malinche.” The exhibition distinguishes five key metaphors in the reception of Malinche from the sixteenth century through today. The paper highlights the theme of Malinche as the mother of the nation and its diverse appearances in visual culture among the images displayed. The paper surveys the ways in which images of motherhood interact in museum space.

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Kovács, Ágnes Z. (2023). Reinscribing Malinche in Contemporary Visual Art: Metaphors of Malinche at the Denver Art Museum Exhibition “Traitor, Survivor, Icon: The Legacy of la Malinche” (2022). Acta Hispanica, 28, 131–147. https://doi.org/10.14232/actahisp.2023.28.131-147
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Vol. 28 (2023): Acta Hispanica Tomus XXVIII
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Estudios culturales
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Ágnes Zsófia Kovács, University of Szeged

Ágnes Zsófia Kovács is associate professor at the Department of American Studies, University of Szeged, Hungary. Her research interests include late nineteenth-century proto-modern fiction, conversions of literary modernisms, popular fiction genres, and contemporary multicultural American fiction. Her current research into travel writing involves re-mapping travel texts by Edith Wharton. She published two books, The Function of the Imagination in the Writings of Henry James (2006) and Literature in Context (2010), co-edited Space, Gender and the Gaze (2017) and edited Edith Wharton’s Osprey Notes (2021). She served as editor for AMERICANA E-Journal with the issues ‘Multiculturalism in American Literature and Art’ (2008) and ‘Henry James Appropriated’ (2016), and for AMERICANA eBooks with Jon Roberts’ A Life Less Damnable  (2013). She sits on the editorial board of Americana E-Journal and TNTeF, Szeged, and Acta Philologica, Cluj.

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Received 2023-03-16
Accepted 2023-05-19
Published 2023-12-19

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