"Creating a More Compassionate Narrative: Undoing Desconocimiento through Embodied Intimacy in Helena María Viramontes' Under the Feet of Jesus and Luis Alberto Urrea's The Devil"s Highway," Christina García López, University of San Francisco.Lopez argues that Chicana/o literature activates transformative compassion in readers through the use of sensory language that enables them to humanize the systematically dehumanized brown body.