Rocky Mountain Review71-1-2017 | Spring 2017
Articles Articles are published in alphabetical order according to the name of the author.
Blanca Aranda Gómez García, Western Washington University Periférica Blvd. Ópera Rock-Ocó (2004), de Adolfo Cárdenas Franco, presenta una ciudad en la que los espacios comportan características propias a un gabinete barroco de curiosidades. Siguiendo la vena coleccionista, la novela presenta distintos tipos de texto que intervienen en la narración de la historia. Finalmente, a través de la colección de idiolectos, nos ingresa en el mundo de la oralidad discursiva y cultural. Las múltiples interrupciones del texto escrito obligan al lector a acercarse a la novela a partir de fragmentos que evitan órdenes establecidos, centralismos o jerarquías, logrando así el advenimiento de la percepción del Otro. Secret Keeping as Female Empowerment in Marcel Prévost’s Le jardin secret (1897) Hope Christiansen, University of Arkansas Marcel Prevost, in Le jardin secret,narrates the story of Marthe, a woman who discovers that her husband, fifteen years her senior, is leading a double life. Her initial reaction is to hire a detective who can obtain proof of his adultery before her filing for divorce. The discovery of her husband’s infidelity leads her to an examination of her past that resurrects her former self; it forces her to acknowledge that she too has long engaged in secret-keeping. Prévost centers his novel, a first-person narrative skewed toward the confessional, on the theme of secrecy, showing it as an empowering force that affords the heroine agency. Laila Lalami: Narrating North African Migration to Europe Cristián H. Ricci, University of California, Merced Re-conceptualizing the idea of a “Moroccan” literature with regard to the transnational and plurilingual experiences from which it arises, this study advances a comparative outlook grounded in linguistic difference. Laila Lalami’s narrative not only reflects the current situation of the majority of Moroccans today, but also captures the experience of a fast growing number of individuals in migrant communities worldwide. Reviews are published in alphabetical order according to the name of the author reviewed.
Transarea. A Literary History of Globalization, by Ottmar Ette, translated by Mark W. Person. Reviewer: Camilo Jaramillo
Straight James/Gay James, by James Franco. Reviewer: Daniel Cureton
Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life,byRuth Franklin. . Reviewer: Darryl Hattenhauer
Lügen von gestern und heute, by Ursula Fricker. Reviewer: Albrecht Classen
René Girard, Unlikely Apologist: Mimetic Theory and Fundamental Theology, byGrant Kaplan. Reviewer: John Herda
Homebound: Diaspora Spaces and Selves in Greek American Return Narratives, byEvangelia Kindinger. Reviewer: Senaida Navar
Bruno regresa descalzo,by Alicia Kozameh. Reviewer: Janis Breckenridge
Language for Specific Purposes: Trends in Curriculum Development, byMary K. Long. Reviewer: Joy Landeira
Literatura y ficción. La ruptura de la lógica ficcional, byAlfonso Martín Jiménez. Reviewer: Lucía Hellín Nistal
Hidden Chicano Cinema: Film Dramas in the Borderlands, byA. Gabriel Meléndez. Reviewer: Shelli Rottschafer
Art and Political Thought in Bole Butake., by Emmanuel Ngwang and Kenneth Usongo. Reviewer: Jeffery Moser
The Calculus of Falling Bodies: Poems, by Geoff Rips. Reviewer: Ingo R. Stoehr
Voices of the Undocumented,by Val Rosenfeld and Florence Fortunati. Reviewer: Daniel C. Villanueva
The Hotel Years, by Joseph Roth, translated by Michael Hofmann. Reviewer: Daniel C. Villanueva
This River Here: Poems of San Antonio, by Carmen Tafolla. Reviewer: Jeffery Moser
Blood Flower: New Poems, byPamela Uschuk. Reviewer: Sean H. Jenkins
Sterling Keynote The text of the Sterling Keynote Address given at the 2016 Annual Convention October 6, 2016
Mimi R. Gladstein, University of Texas at El Paso “Falala, Lala, Lala, Lala.”
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