Posted on Wednesday, December 31, 2008 by blogmeridian2
I want to return to this image for a moment, which I posted on earlier, in light of a nudge I received from some reading I did last week.
From Sandra Messinger Cypess’ La Malinche in Mexican Literature: From History to Myth, as part of a discussion of Rosario Castellanos’ essay, “Once Again Sor Juana”:
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Posted on Wednesday, July 30, 2008 by blogmeridian2
(Note: This post, crossposted here, is part of a larger interest of mine in identifying the characteristics of visual and textual rhetorics of interracial mixing and seeing what larger conclusions we can draw from those characteristics.)
Ilona Katzew, Casta Painting: Images of Race in Eighteenth-Century Mexico (Yale, 2004). Amazon link here. Image found here.
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