vol. 38 – identity

An International Journal for Literature and the Arts

Editors

Jim Brannon

Sotonye Briggs

Sarah Chitwood

Veronica Dominguez

Moe Gamez

Jasmine Garcia

Luis Gomez

Bria Gordon

Jean-Paul Hoang

Cindy Hong

Sebastian Negrete

Alfred Piper

Patrick Shaffer

Tina Thongsarn

Victor Tran

Crystal Trillo

Alan Vera

Emily Yea

Cover Illustration: Jean-Paul Hoang

Cover Design: Victor Tran

Faculty Advisor: Katherine McLoone

Table of Contents

Mark Benton

Cooperative Centralization?: The Evolution of Regional Identity in Northern France during the High Middle Ages          10

Tyler Bouwens

Caesar’s Construction of Self-Identity                              30

Bria Gordon

Black Identity: Overcoming Oppressive Ideas            46

Alejandra Lopez

The Border is My Home                                                     57

William Meyer

Depictions of Homelessness and the Impossibility of Morality on the Streets       71

Dejah Rodriguez

From Baldwin to Adichie: The Dominant Narrative Still Divides                               82

Joelle Sabater

Asterios Polyp and Daytripper: Proposed Outlooks Between Life and Death               89

Patrick Shaffer

The Cruel Hedgehog’s Fistfight                                             99          

William Vasquez

The Village Boy, The Wolf Girl, and the Iron Woman: Self in Princess Mononoke     121

Emily Yea

Transitioning from Adolescence to Young Adulthood in Asano’s Solanin                               135