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DAVID JAM ES VÁZQUEZ Their Bones Kept Them Moving: Latinx Studies, Helena María Viramontes’s Under the Feet of Jesus, and the Crosscurrents of Ecocriticism Chemical pollution is . . . a central issue for American environmentalism, at the same time that it functions as a crucial trope by means of which writers and filmmakers explore the porous boundaries between body and environment, public and domestic space, and harmful and benec fi ial tech - nologies. Ursula K. Heise, Sense of Place and Sense of Planet Caminante, no hay puentes, se hace puentes al andar (Voyager, there are no bridges, one builds them as one walks). Gloria E. Anzaldúa, This Bridge Called My Back t the center of Helena María Viramontes’s 1995 novel Under the Feet of Jesus is the poisoning via an aerial crop duster of Alejo, a sixteen-year-old farmworker on a ra- i sin farm in California’s Central Valley. Although Alejo is poisoned with at least one other character present, his illness is an enigma. Even he does not seem to recognize the implications of the event: Alejo, who “had not guessed the biplane was so close until its gray shadow crossed over him like a crucifix” (76),
Contemporary Literature – University of Wisconsin Press
Published: Jul 3, 2018
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