{"title":"India’s Forests, Real and Imagined: Writing the Modern Nation by Alan Johnson (review)","authors":"Mahalingam Subbiah","doi":"10.1353/rmr.2023.a904895","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rmr.2023.a904895","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":278890,"journal":{"name":"Rocky Mountain Review","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129838090","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E. Carbajal, Lovia Mondésir, Megi Papiashvili, Mouloud Siber, Keith Wagner, Elia A. Jordan, Chelsea Escalante, Pamela J. Rader, Peter B. Olson, Christopher Lupke, Mahalingam Subbiah, Alan Johnson, Junmin Liu, Tsz Kit Yim, Abigail G. Johnston, Miao Dou, Jeffery Moser, Irina Armianu, V. Wolff, Elizabeth Laughlin, Giuseppa Tamburello, J. Landeira, Mingwei Song, Jiao Li, Yu Zhang
{"title":"“Contarlo todo, con pelos y olores”: Aisthesis y alienación en Insensatez de Horacio Castellanos Moya","authors":"E. Carbajal, Lovia Mondésir, Megi Papiashvili, Mouloud Siber, Keith Wagner, Elia A. Jordan, Chelsea Escalante, Pamela J. Rader, Peter B. Olson, Christopher Lupke, Mahalingam Subbiah, Alan Johnson, Junmin Liu, Tsz Kit Yim, Abigail G. Johnston, Miao Dou, Jeffery Moser, Irina Armianu, V. Wolff, Elizabeth Laughlin, Giuseppa Tamburello, J. Landeira, Mingwei Song, Jiao Li, Yu Zhang","doi":"10.1353/rmr.2023.a904884","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rmr.2023.a904884","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:La novela Insensatez de Horacio Castellanos Moya se ha estudiado mucho desde las perspectivas psicológica y testimonial, lo cual ha permitido observar importantes características de la obra con referencia al acercamiento hacia la violencia. Este trabajo propone una lectura de las referencias sensoriales para observar cómo funcionan en derribar el muro de insensibilidad que puede tener un ciudadano moderno ante las tragedias mundiales. Para ello recurro a los conceptos de Aisthesis de Jacques Rancière y “alienación” de Walter Benjamin para analizar la función de las referencias sensoriales en la novela con relación al periodo de posguerra en Guatemala.","PeriodicalId":278890,"journal":{"name":"Rocky Mountain Review","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127743268","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Legend of Prince Golden Calf in China and Korea by Wilt L. Idema and Allard M. Olof (review)","authors":"Christopher Lupke","doi":"10.1353/rmr.2023.a904894","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rmr.2023.a904894","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":278890,"journal":{"name":"Rocky Mountain Review","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121285844","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"José Carlos Mariátegui and the Lasting Impact of his European Travels","authors":"Megi Papiashvili","doi":"10.1353/rmr.2023.a904886","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rmr.2023.a904886","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Mariátegui was a prolific writer who produced the most influential socialist literature in Latin America. Because of his political activism, he was forced to leave Peru to avoid imprisonment during Augusto B. Leguía’s dictatorship. Between 1919 and 1923, he traveled throughout Europe, witnessed some of that continent’s most transformative events, and met leading intellectuals who exercised a profound influence on his writings and thoughts. Employing Iain Chambers’s theory on identity, this article reexamines the role that Mariátegui’s European travels played in shaping his writings, a legacy that continues to exert significant literary, historical, and sociopolitical influence in contemporary Peru.","PeriodicalId":278890,"journal":{"name":"Rocky Mountain Review","volume":"237 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134543628","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"La femme sans nom : du traumatisme au devenir-fils de l’Abolition dans l’œuvre d’Édouard Glissant","authors":"Lovia Mondésir","doi":"10.1353/rmr.2023.a904885","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rmr.2023.a904885","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Dans son roman La case du commandeur, Édouard Glissant décrit l’importance du genre et l’acuité des violences sexuelles dans l’espace colonial. À partir de l’expérience féminine de la Traite et de l’esclavage, il problématise les modes de constitution et de dissémination d’une mémoire traumatique. Il met également en lumière les stratégies d’oubli, de réflexion et de libération présentes dans ces réalités historiques. Ainsi, grâce à son personnage la femme sans nom, cet auteur questionne la dimension collective de l’Abolition de 1848. En effet, bien qu’il reconnaisse le bien-fon-dé de cette mesure, il cherche à éclairer son contexte. Par exemple, il la caractérise comme un traumatisme ayant de graves conséquences qui se prolongent jusqu’au XXIème siècle. Ses positions annoncent ses efforts et ses vastes contributions pour faire connaître et comprendre l’esclavage.","PeriodicalId":278890,"journal":{"name":"Rocky Mountain Review","volume":"169 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130346915","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ideology and Form in Yan Lianke’s Fiction: Mythorealism as Method by Haiyan Xie (review)","authors":"Jiao Li","doi":"10.1353/rmr.2023.a904909","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rmr.2023.a904909","url":null,"abstract":"ends with a hope: “Ultimately, the form of cute manga is reinvented to circumvent the governmental censorship to achieve a small step of progress in feminist activism. That is another dimension of the politics of smallness, probably a more promising one.” (204) Two years after its publication, a group of young Chinese students quietly launched a small protest, which later gained a small name: the “blank paper revolution.”","PeriodicalId":278890,"journal":{"name":"Rocky Mountain Review","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127532349","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hotel London: How Victorian Commercial Hospitality Shaped a Nation and its Stories by Barbara Black (review)","authors":"Keith B. Wagner","doi":"10.1353/rmr.2023.a904889","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rmr.2023.a904889","url":null,"abstract":"of adult politics” (130) and to subvert the dictates of “institutions” (135). His use of the ironic mode diverts his work from any “monologic culmination” (137). As well, Biswas underlines the carnivalesque function of Narayan’s settings: “the public square” (151) that “swarms with fools, clowns and rogues who” have no sense of “inhibition, shame and responsibility” (151). Malgudi is a “metamorphic” (152) place where the crowd has the power to mutate or regenerate itself and to alter the life course of ordinary individuals. Biswas shows the utility of the Bakhtinian approach to fictional texts and succeeds in showcasing Narayan’s novels as examples in which Bakhtin’s ideas are relevant. Often the critical response to Narayan’s works has tended to be unfavorable since they were misconstrued as lacking seriousness. However, Biswas’s insightful carnivalesque approach demonstrates that Narayan’s choice of the comic mode and its subversive function offers an alternative but serious outlook on society. Indeed, “the language of laughter. . . [the] much needed antidote to ideological abstraction” (158) redeems Narayan from these criticisms. The application of Bakhtin’s ideas also affirms the suitability of Narayan’s novels for shaking bourgeois ideas and giving voice to ideas that are privately shared, but not always publicly expressed.","PeriodicalId":278890,"journal":{"name":"Rocky Mountain Review","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121456751","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sensing the Sinophone: Urban Memoryscapes in Contemporary Fiction by Astrid Møller-Olsen (review)","authors":"Miao Dou","doi":"10.1353/rmr.2023.a904900","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rmr.2023.a904900","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":278890,"journal":{"name":"Rocky Mountain Review","volume":"62 9","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132737110","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"El libro de traiciones / The Book of Betrayals by Jennifer Rathbun (review)","authors":"Victoria F. Wolff","doi":"10.1353/rmr.2023.a904904","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rmr.2023.a904904","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":278890,"journal":{"name":"Rocky Mountain Review","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134615236","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"East Winds: A Global Quest to Reckon with Marriage by Rachel Rueckert (review)","authors":"Irina Armianu","doi":"10.1353/rmr.2023.a904903","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rmr.2023.a904903","url":null,"abstract":"those who might shy away from the poetry genre, will benefit because it will help them to reflect further and more deeply on a significant historical and cultural indigenous woman. Readers will experience a variety of emotions as they relate the story of La Malinche to their own personal experiences and will create community as they reflect upon on a person who lived, loved, and worked through events centuries ago that have defined much of our contemporary lived experiences today in the Americas.","PeriodicalId":278890,"journal":{"name":"Rocky Mountain Review","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127822069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}