| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 39.1

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Book Review

Malintzin's Choices: An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico. By Camilla Townsend. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2006. xv + 287 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliographic essay, index. $23.95, paper.)

Camilla Townsend's book Malintzin's Choices takes a fresh look at the endlessly debated figure of Malintzin/Marina/Malinche, her role in the Hernán Cortés expedition to Mexico (1519–1521), and her life during the early years of colonial rule. Townsend's goal is to both humanize and historicize the real woman Malintzin, and other indigenous women like her, caught up in the constraints and challenges of Spanish conquest and colonialism. Townsend tells the story of Malintzin as a narrative over a series of nine thematic and chronological chapters, interweaving Malintzin's life experiences with the broader narrative of the Cortés expedition, the wars of conquest and the fall of the Mexica capital of Tenochtitlan, her personal relationships with Cortés and other Spanish men, and the birth of her two children, don Martín and doña María.

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