Question
This woman “advance[s] toward destiny in chains” hearing “the voice of my mother in tears—in tears!” in a poem by Rosario Castellanos. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this Mexican historical figure called the Chingada, or “the Mother forcibly opened” in an Octavio Paz essay titled for “The Sons of” this person.
ANSWER: La Malinche [or Malintzin; accept “The Sons of La Malinche” or “Los hijos de La Malinche”]
[10m] A writer with this first name re-envisioned Malinche as a time-traveler in the story “Blame the Tlaxcaltecs.” A Mexican journalist with this first name and surname Poniatowska wrote about the title massacre in The Night of Tlatelolco.
ANSWER: Elena [accept Elena Poniatowska; accept Hélène Poniatowska; accept Elena Garro]
[10h] An essay by this writer claims all Chicanas “suffer under [La Malinche’s] name” even if they have never heard of her. This dramatist reimagined Medea as a bisexual ex-revolutionary in the play The Hungry Woman.
ANSWER: Cherríe Moraga (“sheh-REE moh-RAH-ghah”)
Data
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chicago B | Maryland A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Claremont A | Penn State A | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 |
| Columbia B | UC Berkeley B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Cornell A | WUSTL A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Cornell B | Texas A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Duke A | Stanford A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Florida B | NYU A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Georgia Tech A | Chicago A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Harvard A | MIT A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Houston A | Johns Hopkins A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Imperial A | Purdue A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Indiana A | Columbia A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Iowa State A | Yale B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Michigan A | Vanderbilt A | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Minnesota A | North Carolina A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Northwestern A | Chicago C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Ohio State A | Florida A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Rutgers A | Illinois A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Rutgers B | Minnesota B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| South Carolina A | WUSTL B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Toronto A | UC Berkeley A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Virginia A | Penn A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Yale A | Brown A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |