The "external reverberation of language and landscape" in Viramontes's "Their Dogs Came With Them"

Moya’s work builds on intersections between disability studies, environmental studies, and Latina/o studies by examining Helena María Viramontes’s Their Dogs Came With Them. Moya argues that metaphors of amputation and... [ view full abstract ]

Moya’s work builds on intersections between disability studies, environmental studies, and Latina/o studies by examining Helena María Viramontes’s Their Dogs Came With Them. Moya argues that metaphors of amputation and disease describe the debilitating effects on a Mexican American community of the urban landscape brought into existence by Los Angeles freeways. The novel is thus a linguistic testament to the characters’ will for meaning in the face of invisibility and societal disregard.