Their Bones Kept Them Moving: Latinx Studies, Helena María Viramontes’s Under the Feet of Jesus , and the Crosscurrents of Ecocriticism. VÁZQUEZ, D. J. Contemporary Lit. Contemporary Literature, 58(3):361–391, 2017. OCLC: 7735854806doi abstract bibtex Because Under the Feet of Jesus represents environmental justice as an integral aspect of a larger discursive quest for social justice, the novel offers a case study for understanding how Latinxs imagine alternative responses to environmental marginalization. This essay combines Latinx literary critical methodologies, including formal analysis of the novel's spatial representations, with ecocritical considerations of toxicity in order to unpack how Under the Feet of Jesus posits a form of environmental literacy that critiques dominant paradigms of critical resistance including conventional environmental discourse. These representations emphasize how environmental injustice functions as an integral aspect of the racialization of farmworkers. Rather than presenting environmental racism as aberrant, or detailing individual instances of environmental harm outside a larger context, the novel suggests that toxicity and environmental degradation are structural aspects of farmworker life. By bringing the ecocritical attention to what Lawrence Buell calls "toxic discourse" into further conversation with the Latinx studies focus on racial and social justice, it is possible to appreciate Viramontes's complex intertwining of social, political, and economic resistance with critiques of environmental injustice.
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