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work_2zxxwlw23rejpju2qrb44uvkmi	David J. Vázquez	"They don't understand their own oppression": Complicating Preservation in John Rechy's The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gómez	2018.0	28	.pdf	application/pdf	10095	732	55	"They don't understand their own oppression": Complicating Preservation in John Rechy's The Miraculous Day of Amalia Gómez Preservation in John Rechy's The Miraculous Day of Amalia resistance like the Chicano Movement.1 As José David Saldívar observes, Rechy's "liminal cultural critiques have been more accurate and It is not that writers like Rechy reject the terms of environmentalism, urban space, or the transnational. By understanding the novel as an environmental text that operates in racialized transnational space, it is possible to see how Rechy critiques preservation projects imposed on and Amalia uses to decorate her home and body, her meditations on gendered and racialized transnational space in the city, her fear of natural disasters such as earthquakes, fires, and Santa Ana windstorms, the particular the urban spaces of cities like Los Angeles. iconography.17 Part of Amalia's confusion in relation to the mural centers on its omission of the urban from environmental imaginaries.	./cache/work_2zxxwlw23rejpju2qrb44uvkmi.pdf	./txt/work_2zxxwlw23rejpju2qrb44uvkmi.txt