{"id":63,"date":"2006-11-08T15:32:43","date_gmt":"2006-11-08T22:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/malcs.net\/blog\/?p=63"},"modified":"2006-11-08T15:32:43","modified_gmt":"2006-11-08T22:32:43","slug":"new-pub-malinches-daughter-by-michelle-otero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/malcs.org\/archive-2017\/2006\/11\/08\/new-pub-malinches-daughter-by-michelle-otero\/","title":{"rendered":"New pub: Malinche's Daughter by Michelle Otero"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this interview with Carolina Monsivais (poet and co-founder of the El Paso Women’s Writing Collective), poeta Michelle Otero<\/strong> discusses her new book, Malinche’s Daughter<\/a><\/em>. In this collection of essays, Otero draws on the figure of Malinche as she details her own journey dealing with child sexual abuse.<\/p>\n

I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t remember the first time I heard her name\u00e2\u20ac\u201dit seems she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s always existed on the margins of my consciousness\u00e2\u20ac\u201dbut I remember feeling it should be whispered. She was\"malinchesdaughter.jpg\" one of those<\/em> women, like the No Name Aunt in Maxine Hong Kingston\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s The Woman Warrior<\/em>. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve always been drawn to these figures, particularly the women\u00e2\u20ac\u201dthe ones who talk too much or don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t talk enough, the ones shunned by their communities, the ones who have somehow brought shame upon their people.<\/p>\n

I wanted to call things what they are. The Spaniards didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t arrive<\/em> in the Americas. They invaded<\/em>. Malinche was not Cort\u00c3\u00a9s\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lover<\/em>. She was his property. He owned her. Their relationship wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t based on equality, but on domination. Where there is domination, there is no love.<\/p>\n

I wanted Malinche to know across time that someone has her back. This is what I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve wanted when I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve felt the backlash of speaking the truth about racism or sexism or patriarchal violence, someone who will say, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I hear you,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and will stand by you as people call you disloyal or ungrateful.<\/p>\n

I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m a writer. I have a voice. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an incredible privilege. I feel I have a responsibility to leverage that privilege for good\u00e2\u20ac\u201dto speak the truth, even when it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s uncomfortable, to stop patriarchal violence, and ultimately, to heal. Continued<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Professor Norma Cant\u00c3\u00ba writes that Otero’s stories “…take us to Mexico and back, but it is also a trip to the past and to spaces of conflict and tension, finally coming home to that space where we are \u00e2\u20ac\u0153born and re-born.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Read an excerpt from the book here<\/a>, and\/or the full interview with Michelle<\/a> by Carolina Monsivais here.<\/p>\n

Malinche’s Daughter<\/a> is published by Momotombo Press<\/a>, the Latina Letras project at the Institute for Latino Studies, Notre Dame University<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In this interview with Carolina Monsivais (poet and co-founder of the El Paso Women’s Writing Collective), poeta Michelle Otero discusses her new book, Malinche’s Daughter. In this collection of essays, Otero draws on the figure of Malinche as she details her own journey dealing with child sexual abuse. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t remember the first time I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-63","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-new-publications","7":"entry","8":"override"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1169,"url":"https:\/\/malcs.org\/archive-2017\/2012\/07\/16\/new-book-speaking-from-the-heart-herstories-of-chicana-latina-and-amerindian-women\/","url_meta":{"origin":63,"position":0},"title":"New book: Speaking from the Heart: Herstories of Chicana\/ Latina, and Amerindian Women","author":"la Webjefa","date":"July 16, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Congrats to Rose Mary Borunda and Melissa Moreno on their new book,\u00c2\u00a0Speaking from the Heart: Herstories of Chicana, Latina, and Amerindian Women! 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