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Graduate Student Forum
Candie Sanderson, Nathanial Cox, Sarah Lane, Mark Triana
University of Montana
The "Other" Jesus in Under the Feet of Jesus
Nathanial Cox
Viramontes in her novella, Under the Feet of Jesus, creates a richly detailed, poetic world in which the socio-cultural elements of Chicano identity come to light in relationship with their religious, ecological, and class-based roots. This paper seeks to elucidate the presence of Chicano-Catholic culture in the novella--particularly in relation to Viramontes' recurring use of Christophany.
Locating and Transforming the Other’s Voice and Fertile Body as an Ecofeminist Liberatory Practice in Helena Viramontes’s “Under the Feet of Jesus”
Sarah Lane
Fallen Leaves by Nguyễn Thị Thu-Lâm: Reinventing Vietnamese Femininity under Foreign Occupation
Candie Sanderson
The paper will examine how the author, a Vietnamese woman who lived under French and American occupation, strives to redefine her identity in the midst of conflict, blending Confucian ideals and feminism. More specifically, this study will look at how Nguyễn Thị Thu-Lâm, after years of subjugation and silence, seeks to regain ownership of her body and of her story, through writing and resistance.
"'All I want is a room somewhere': Navigating Identity, Popular Culture, and the American Landscape in Chay Yew’s A Language of Their Own."
Mark Triana
