{"id":53464,"date":"2017-04-13T15:50:52","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T15:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=53464"},"modified":"2017-04-13T15:50:52","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T15:50:52","slug":"genarao-ky-ly-smiths-fideleand-intrusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=53464","title":{"rendered":"Genarao K\u1ef3 L\u00fd Smith\u2019s \u201cFid\u00e8le\u201dand Intrusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/interminablerambling.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/13\/genarao-ky-ly-smiths-fideleand-intrusion\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Genarao K\u1ef3 L\u00fd Smith\u2019s \u201cFid\u00e8le\u201dand Intrusion<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/interminablerambling.wordpress.com\" target=\"_blank\">Interminable Rambling<\/a><br \/>\n2017-04-13<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SilasLapham\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Matthew Teutsch<\/strong><\/a>, Instructor<br \/>\nDepartment of English<br \/>\n<em>Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/interminablerambling.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/13\/genarao-ky-ly-smiths-fideleand-intrusion\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/interminablerambling.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/church_steeple_with_clouds.jpg?w=768\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Recently, I taught <a href=\"http:\/\/liberalarts.latech.edu\/literature_language\/english\/faculty\/smith.php\" target=\"_blank\">Genarao K\u1ef3 L\u00fd Smith\u2019s<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=52228\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Land Baron\u2019s Sun: The Story of L\u00fdLoc and His Seven Wives<\/em> (2014)<\/a> for the first time, and during this read through, I began to think about the topic of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Dream\" target=\"_blank\">American Dream<\/a> even more along with colonization and intrusion. These themes pop up in numerous poems throughout the collection, and I have written about them before. Today, though, I want to focus on \u201cFid\u00e8le,\u201d a poem that appears later in the book and talks about Pham and her family\u2019s new life in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/North_Louisiana\" target=\"_blank\">North Louisiana<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFid\u00e8le\u201d begins by outlining the religious landscape of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ruston,_Louisia\" target=\"_blank\">Ruston<\/a>. The town does not have any synagogues, pagodas, or temples; rather, it has \u201conly churches whose steeples\/ are wooden hands formed in prayer\u201d (84). From the very beginning, we are told to question the Boudreaux family in the poem based on the title, \u201c\u201cFid\u00e8le,\u201d French for faithful. The Boudreauxs, with their children and dog, repeatedly ask Pham, as she works in her family\u2019s garden, to come to church with them someday. Pham declines these invitations as her husband instructs her&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"https:\/\/interminablerambling.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/13\/genarao-ky-ly-smiths-fideleand-intrusion\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I taught Genarao K\u1ef3 L\u00fd Smith\u2019s The Land Baron\u2019s Sun: The Story of L\u00fdLoc and His Seven Wives (2014) for the first time, and during this read through, I began to think about the topic of the American Dream even more along with colonization and intrusion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,1196,369,8,820,20],"tags":[26544,26543,26542,26844],"class_list":["post-53464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-literary-criticism","category-louisiana","category-media-archive","category-religion","category-usa","tag-genarao-ky-ly-smith","tag-interminable-rambling","tag-matthew-teutsch","tag-ruston"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53465,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53464\/revisions\/53465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}