{"title":"Chinese Poets Since 1949 ed. by Christopher Lupke and Thomas Moran (review)","authors":"Frederik H. Green","doi":"10.1353/rmr.2022.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rmr.2022.0012","url":null,"abstract":"Nativist Literature due to its emphasis on realism and regionalism, rather than abstractness and internationalism. In the ensuing chapters, Ye describes the tensions between immigrant writers from mainland China writing in Chinese and Taiwan-born writers who had always written in Japanese. In Chapter 7 titled “Taiwan Literature in the 1970’s: Nativism or Human Nature?” Ye describes the Debate over Nativist Literature, which became crucial to finding a new path for the development of literature that would reflect the hearts and minds of Taiwan’s 19 million citizens. While many intellectuals participated in this debate and advocated a broad range of views, Ye staunchly asserts that “only Nativist literature, applied to the real lives of ordinary people in Taiwan, could serve as the spiritual sustenance of the common folk of Taiwan and rise to the level of world literature” (296).","PeriodicalId":278890,"journal":{"name":"Rocky Mountain Review","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114833964","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}
J. Krenz, Christopher Lupke, Yanhong Zhu, Géraldine Fiss, Wenzhu Li, L. Velázquez-Velázquez, Fang-yu Li, Lishu Tang, Pu Wang, Tonglu Li, Géraldine Fiss, Frederik H. Green, Fangyuan Huang, S. Lu, Hu Yiju, H. Choy
{"title":"Regrowing Divine Trees: Zhai Yongming's \"The Eighth Day\" as a Reflection on the Intellectual and Ethical Ecosystem of Posthuman Eden","authors":"J. Krenz, Christopher Lupke, Yanhong Zhu, Géraldine Fiss, Wenzhu Li, L. Velázquez-Velázquez, Fang-yu Li, Lishu Tang, Pu Wang, Tonglu Li, Géraldine Fiss, Frederik H. Green, Fangyuan Huang, S. Lu, Hu Yiju, H. Choy","doi":"10.1353/rmr.2022.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rmr.2022.0000","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Published in 2009, \"The Eighth Day\" is a poetic sequel to the Biblical myth of creation. Zhai sketches a landscape of the posthuman world in which \"scientists replaced God\" and continue His work populating the earth with transgenic species, cyborgs, and humanoids. Inviting readers for time travel to a future society, the poet prompts them to reflect on the most fundamental big questions concerning ontology, epistemology, and ethics of the newly emergent \"natureculture,\" to use Donna Haraway's term, including problems such as the relationship between science and religion or between matter, intelligence, consciousness, and conscience. This study unpacks these big questions and traces possible answers to them in other works from Zhai's oeuvre and beyond, mobilizing cultural contexts inspired by her poem \"The Eighth Day.\"","PeriodicalId":278890,"journal":{"name":"Rocky Mountain Review","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125513836","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":"Cracks as Portals of Change: A Reading of Disasters in Juan Villoro’s Novel Materia dispuesta (1997)","authors":"Gabriela A. Buitrón Vera","doi":"10.1353/rmr.2021.0031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rmr.2021.0031","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This analysis argues that concepts of nation and masculinity are necessarily reformulated because natural disasters are portrayed as symbolic ruptures that can enable either a social transformation or the reaffirmation of the status quo. When a return to the status quo occurs, hegemonic Mexican masculine models are portrayed as barriers to meaningful social change. This argument draws from Sedgwick (1985), Bartra (1987), Connell ([2005]1993), Gutman ([1996] 2006) and Irwin (2003) to expand the analysis of monolithic masculinities as obstacles to overcoming disaster through close reading of how the novel’s protagonist Mauricio navigates disaster and concludes that hegemonic narratives of masculinity become fatal to healing a nation amidst calamity because those discourses/performances truncate a praxis of solidarity.","PeriodicalId":278890,"journal":{"name":"Rocky Mountain Review","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127988720","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":"Dictionnaire Jean Renoir. Du cinéaste à l’écrivain by Philippe De Vita (review)","authors":"Marie-Line Brunet","doi":"10.1353/rmr.2021.0027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rmr.2021.0027","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":278890,"journal":{"name":"Rocky Mountain Review","volume":"99 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122185221","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 truth is memory has not forgotten us”: Memory, Identity, and Storytelling in Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous","authors":"Q. Ha, Mia Tompkins","doi":"10.1353/rmr.2021.0033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rmr.2021.0033","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article examines the intersection of memory, identity, and storytelling in the highly acclaimed Vietnamese American novel On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong. The novel challenges the American myths of inclusion and equal opportunity for all by critiquing United States’ historical amnesia and imperialistic historiography. To Vietnamese American members of the 1.5 generations, memory can never be a choice because only through historical remembrance and self-narrativity can they construct their diasporic identity and establish alliance with the previous generations.","PeriodicalId":278890,"journal":{"name":"Rocky Mountain Review","volume":"866 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126961997","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":"German Mother, the Mother of Germany: Visions of Patriotism, Modernity, and Motherhood in Ina Seidel’s Das Wunschkind (1930)","authors":"Victoria Vygodskaia-Rust","doi":"10.1353/rmr.2021.0034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rmr.2021.0034","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In the decade following WW I, conservative German women writers celebrated picturesque landscapes and tapped into mysticism, religion, and national history. While interested in women’s contributions to society and literature, they pointedly avoided the social and cultural realties of the Weimar Republic. In contrast to liberal urban writers who commented on changing sexual relationships, working women, and controversial issues such as abortion, Seidel contemptuously disdained contemporary trends, instead advocating a spirit of cultural conservatism and restoration of traditional values. Her well-received Heimatsroman echoed contemporary tensions between seductive femininity and nurturing womanhood, between racism and patriotism, and between the ideas of women as professionals, spiritual mothers, and guardians of history and nationality. Although placed in the early nineteenth century, its sensitive portrayal of female experiences during the German Wars of Liberation alluded to the Weimar Republic’s debate about the notorious New Woman and echoed the visions of emancipation promoted by the German bourgeois women’s movement.","PeriodicalId":278890,"journal":{"name":"Rocky Mountain Review","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114138225","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":"Social Justice and International Education. Research, Practice, and Perspectives ed. by LaNitra M. Berger (review)","authors":"Daniel C. Villanueva","doi":"10.1353/rmr.2021.0038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rmr.2021.0038","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":278890,"journal":{"name":"Rocky Mountain Review","volume":"161 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126919152","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":"Dreams and Dialogues in Dylańs Time Out of Mind by Graley Herren (review)","authors":"Alfonso Livianos-Domínguez","doi":"10.1353/rmr.2021.0041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rmr.2021.0041","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":278890,"journal":{"name":"Rocky Mountain Review","volume":"121 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114119358","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":"“I Love the Poorly Educated”","authors":"J. I. Suárez","doi":"10.1353/rmr.2021.0030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rmr.2021.0030","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":278890,"journal":{"name":"Rocky Mountain Review","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133346659","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":"Dark Mirror: African Americans and the Federal Writers’ Project by J. J. Butts (review)","authors":"F. Dixon","doi":"10.1353/rmr.2021.0039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rmr.2021.0039","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":278890,"journal":{"name":"Rocky Mountain Review","volume":"78 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120926505","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}