Project MUSE®: Rocky Mountain Review - Latest Articles
https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/525
Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Rocky Mountain Review.daily12026-05-13T00:00:00-05:00text/htmlen-USVol. 19 (1966) through current issue (with gaps in several volumes)Latest Articles: Rocky Mountain ReviewTWOProject MUSE®Rocky Mountain Review1948-28332159-4163Latest articles in Rocky Mountain Review. Feed provided by Project MUSE®Reattuning Ourselves to the Serresian "Immense Rhapsody" of the Universe in Le Clézio's "The Walking Man"
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976694
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Building upon Michel Serres's (1930-2019) environmental reflections and the plethora of insights that can be gleaned from the interdiscipline of biosemiotics, this essay sheds light on the significance of the elemental music and the ecstasy that accompanies it in J.M.G. Le Clézio's (b. 1940) early short story "The Walking Man." Specifically, this transdisciplinary investigation examines how Serres, the maverick philosopher, and Le Clézio, the Franco-Mauritian writer, develop elaborate musical metaphors that implore alienated, postmodern subjects to reattune themselves to the "immense rhapsody" of the universe to which we are inextricably linked (Serres, Récits 31). When we temporarily remove ourselves from the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-13T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/525/image/coversmallReattuning Ourselves to the Serresian "Immense Rhapsody" of the Universe in Le Clézio's "The Walking Man"2025-12-09text/htmlen-USReattuning Ourselves to the Serresian "Immense Rhapsody" of the Universe in Le Clézio's "The Walking Man"2025-12-092025TWOProject MUSE®659922026-05-13T00:00:00-05:002025-12-09Gender-Based Violence in Cameroon's Digital Cinema
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976695
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In recent decades, Cameroon has witnessed a remarkable "video boom," marked by the flourishing of locally produced digital films that circulate widely through urban neighborhoods, social media, and informal markets. What is striking about this cinematic effervescence is that it has emerged largely outside established institutions and formal training programs. For many aspiring filmmakers, access to professional education remains limited or entirely out of reach. Yet this has not deterred them. Instead, a new generation of young creators has embraced a self-taught, do-it-yourself ethos—learning by experimenting, by collaborating with peers, and by making use of whatever tools are available. As Carmela Garritano
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-13T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/525/image/coversmallGender-Based Violence in Cameroon's Digital Cinema2025-12-09text/htmlen-USGender-Based Violence in Cameroon's Digital Cinema2025-12-092025TWOProject MUSE®742912026-05-13T00:00:00-05:002025-12-09Narratives of Love and Displacement: Jewish Exile in Shanghai through The Cursed Piano and The Song of the Jade Lily
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976696
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During World War II, Shanghai's semi-colonial status (半殖民地) exempted it from stringent visa requirements, making it one of the few open ports available to stateless Jews (无国籍犹太人).1 This became particularly significant after the 1938 Evian Conference (埃 维昂会议) failed to secure international support for Jewish refugees.2 Under Japanese occupation, the city became a vital sanctuary, providing escape from Nazi persecution to approximately 18,000 to 20,000 Jewish refugees. Many were relocated to the Hongkou (虹口) district, a designated area (隔离区) established by the Japanese for stateless Jews.3 Despite the hardships of war, refugees forged a vibrant community in Hongkou. Supported by international relief efforts and the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-13T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/525/image/coversmallNarratives of Love and Displacement: Jewish Exile in Shanghai through The Cursed Piano and The Song of the Jade Lily2025-12-09text/htmlen-USNarratives of Love and Displacement: Jewish Exile in Shanghai through The Cursed Piano and The Song of the Jade Lily2025-12-092025TWOProject MUSE®633082026-05-13T00:00:00-05:002025-12-09Sing, Slivered Tongue: An Anthology of South Asian Women's Poetry of Trauma in English ed. by Lopamudra Basu and Feroza Jussawalla (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976697
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Reviews are published in alphabetical order according to the last name of the author reviewed.This piercing line, "But if you are a woman, / You have inevitable trauma…" (Azad 13) frames the foundation of Sing, Slivered Tongue, a collection of poems by sixty-eight poets from across South Asia who sing through silenced histories of womanhood in the region. The focus of this anthology is trauma intertwined in the intersectionality of the personal, political, and generational experiences of South Asian women that have shaped their subjectivity.As noted by historian Uma Chakravarti, in Vedic and tribal societies, women played significant roles as breadwinners, agrarian cultivators, healers, and leaders in South Asian
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-13T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/525/image/coversmallSing, Slivered Tongue: An Anthology of South Asian Women's Poetry of Trauma in English ed. by Lopamudra Basu and Feroza Jussawalla (review)2025-12-09text/htmlen-USSing, Slivered Tongue: An Anthology of South Asian Women's Poetry of Trauma in English ed. by Lopamudra Basu and Feroza Jussawalla (review)2025-12-092025TWOProject MUSE®73682026-05-13T00:00:00-05:002025-12-09Manual MLA: Novena edición adaptada al español by Conxita Domènech and Andrés Lema-Hincapié (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976698
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Our highest accolades and admiration go to our umbrella organization, The Modern Language Association of America, for publishing the world's definitive manual for writers of Spanish! What began in 1951 as MLA Style Sheet to guide authors of research papers in source documenting and citation in English blossomed throughout three-quarters of a century and nine editions into MLA Handbook, the standard for students, professors, editors, and publishers of literary texts and criticism. Now, seven and a half decades later, MLA's daring translation and adaptation to Spanish not only sets the standard for works written in the second language of the United States, but recognizes the significance of Spanish publications in
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-13T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/525/image/coversmallManual MLA: Novena edición adaptada al español by Conxita Domènech and Andrés Lema-Hincapié (review)2025-12-09text/htmlen-USManual MLA: Novena edición adaptada al español by Conxita Domènech and Andrés Lema-Hincapié (review)2025-12-092025TWOProject MUSE®70872026-05-13T00:00:00-05:002025-12-09The Necromantics: Reanimation, the Historical Imagination, and Victorian British and Irish Literature by Renée Fox (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976699
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In The Necromantics, Renée Fox draws a bridge between Victorian British and Irish Literature, specifically in the realm of resurrected bodies, by analyzing the works of Mary Shelley, Charles Dickens, Robert Browning, W.B. Yeats, and Bram Stoker, as well as referencing Marcel Proust, Jane Austen, and Paul Valery. The author argues that all these writers use reanimated bodies as a symbol for revived history. Although other scholars have studied resurrected bodies, they have not drawn such a comparison between Victorian British and Irish literature.Studying eighteenth- and nineteenth-century history, Fox collects intriguing evidence about Romanticism and its influence on literature's reanimated bodies. This grounds
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-13T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/525/image/coversmallThe Necromantics: Reanimation, the Historical Imagination, and Victorian British and Irish Literature by Renée Fox (review)2025-12-09text/htmlen-USThe Necromantics: Reanimation, the Historical Imagination, and Victorian British and Irish Literature by Renée Fox (review)2025-12-092025TWOProject MUSE®62742026-05-13T00:00:00-05:002025-12-09The First Print Era: The Rise of Print Culture in China's Northern Song Dynasty by Daniel Fried (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976700
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The First Print Era concerns printing and textuality in Northern Song China (960-1127). Given the magnitude of what is being addressed, I found it as a narrative somewhat underwhelming. Readers might expect something more heroic, with clear cause-and-effect driven events unfolding as might any gripping drama, befitting the momentousness of the development of one of the core technological innovations humankind has ever produced. Alas, Fried's work is too careful for such melodrama. As a well-structured and lucid repository for detailed information regarding the ways in which woodblock printing, movable type, and hand-written manuscripts all jostled against one another in the rapidly changing conditions of the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-13T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/525/image/coversmallThe First Print Era: The Rise of Print Culture in China's Northern Song Dynasty by Daniel Fried (review)2025-12-09text/htmlen-USThe First Print Era: The Rise of Print Culture in China's Northern Song Dynasty by Daniel Fried (review)2025-12-092025TWOProject MUSE®79582026-05-13T00:00:00-05:002025-12-09Writing That Matters: A Handbook for Chicanx and Latinx Studies by L. Heidenreich and Rita E. Urquijo-Ruiz (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976701
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Writing is one of the main forms of expression and recognition in academia. However, understanding how to write while staying true to oneself is a challenge for many undergraduate and graduate students of color. Finding a balance can feel overwhelming and lonely, but authors L. Heidenreich and Rita E. Urquijo-Ruiz created a guide, Writing That Matters: A Handbook for Chicanx and Latinx Studies, to help writers find their voice and power.In the introduction, two powerful quotes by Isa Noyola and Gloria Anzaldúa set up the authors' intentions: 1) inform readers about Chicanx/Latinx literature, culture, and history; 2) provide practical steps to write and research these histories; and 3) help students understand their
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-13T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/525/image/coversmallWriting That Matters: A Handbook for Chicanx and Latinx Studies by L. Heidenreich and Rita E. Urquijo-Ruiz (review)2025-12-09text/htmlen-USWriting That Matters: A Handbook for Chicanx and Latinx Studies by L. Heidenreich and Rita E. Urquijo-Ruiz (review)2025-12-092025TWOProject MUSE®70262026-05-13T00:00:00-05:002025-12-09Against! Rebellious Daughters in Black Immigrant Fiction in the United States by Asha Jeffers (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976702
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Asha Jeffers' Against! constitutes a transnational and chronological study of four coming of age novels by Black immigrant and second-generation American women writers. It explores the complexity of migration from Africa and the Caribbean to the US in a postcolonial context and investigates the fictional representation of second-generation rebellious daughters in works by Paule Marshall, Edwidge Danticat, Taiye Selasi, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. According to Jeffers, instead of portraying black migrants as instantly assimilated into an African American experience or unconcerned by race, the writers highlight their precarious place in the American racial environment. This book insists that ignoring Black American
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-13T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/525/image/coversmallAgainst! Rebellious Daughters in Black Immigrant Fiction in the United States by Asha Jeffers (review)2025-12-09text/htmlen-USAgainst! Rebellious Daughters in Black Immigrant Fiction in the United States by Asha Jeffers (review)2025-12-092025TWOProject MUSE®78452026-05-13T00:00:00-05:002025-12-09You Like It Darker: Stories by Stephen King (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976703
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The stories in Stephen King's You Like It Darker work hard to have a message—an answer—about the nature of our fear. In some cases, as in the last story of the collection, "The Answer Man," answers themselves are what we fear the most. King's Answer Man waits for lawyer Phil Parker at a roadside table under a scalloped red umbrella. Increasingly, Phil only has one question for the Answer Man: not so much "Why me?" but "why at all?" (487, King's italics). The "at all" might be that we are meant to connect with people. Another of the stories, "The Fifth Step," reminds us that we cannot dodge each other. Against his better judgment, retiree Harold Jamieson reluctantly shakes young Jack's extended hand. Both Harold and
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-13T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/525/image/coversmallYou Like It Darker: Stories by Stephen King (review)2025-12-09text/htmlen-USYou Like It Darker: Stories by Stephen King (review)2025-12-092025TWOProject MUSE®102602026-05-13T00:00:00-05:002025-12-09Somewhere Beyond the Sea by TJ Klune (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976704
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Travis Klune's significance in contemporary fantasy literature was assured as of 2020 with his effervescent The House in the Cerulean Sea, an unabashed "queer" novel that celebrates what we might call "chosen" or "found" family with an outrageous plotline that begins with a humdrum, buttoned down childcare inspector named Linus Baker who serves in the Department in Charge of Magical Youth (DICOMY). He reluctantly accepts the assignment of inspecting an especially problematic foster home, located just offshore from a beach community named Marsyas (yes, the same spelling as the Ovidian satyr in the Metamorphoses who was flayed by Apollo). This single household orphanage is presided over by the charming Arthur
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-13T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/525/image/coversmallSomewhere Beyond the Sea by TJ Klune (review)2025-12-09text/htmlen-USSomewhere Beyond the Sea by TJ Klune (review)2025-12-092025TWOProject MUSE®91302026-05-13T00:00:00-05:002025-12-09Cultural Transplantation: The Writing of Classical Chinese Poetry in Colonial Singapore (1887-1945) by Lap Lam (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976705
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Lap Lam's 林立 latest book builds upon his decade of multifaceted research about classical Chinese poetry produced in British colonial Singapore during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It embraces the concept of "cultural transplantation," which he delineates as "the transfer of Chinese culture and traditional practices overseas … and … the process of placement and their sustained connections with their place of origin" of Chinese immigrants (10). Through this idea, Lam offers a substantial and thoughtful account of the socio-cultural history of Chinese immigrants in Singapore's colonial past as enshrined in literary articulations. They are presented in meticulously prosodic classical-style poetry
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-13T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/525/image/coversmallCultural Transplantation: The Writing of Classical Chinese Poetry in Colonial Singapore (1887-1945) by Lap Lam (review)2025-12-09text/htmlen-USCultural Transplantation: The Writing of Classical Chinese Poetry in Colonial Singapore (1887-1945) by Lap Lam (review)2025-12-092025TWOProject MUSE®72932026-05-13T00:00:00-05:002025-12-09Chinese Thirdspace: The Paradox of Moderate Politics, 1946–2020 by Jianmei Liu (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976706
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At each critical juncture in modern Chinese history, intellectuals have confronted a forked path, compelled to align themselves amid an array of dichotomies: leftist versus rightist ideologies; national salvation versus enlightenment; Western versus Chinese values; modernity versus tradition. Against this polarizing narrative, Jianmei Liu's new book pays tribute to those who have striven to remain independent of such divisions by constructing a Thirdspace through diverse intellectual and aesthetic means.While Liu notes that the book was initially conceived as a response to our increasingly fragmented world following the 2019 Hong Kong protests and the COVID-19 pandemic (vii), it represents a continuation of the
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-13T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/525/image/coversmallChinese Thirdspace: The Paradox of Moderate Politics, 1946–2020 by Jianmei Liu (review)2025-12-09text/htmlen-USChinese Thirdspace: The Paradox of Moderate Politics, 1946–2020 by Jianmei Liu (review)2025-12-092025TWOProject MUSE®90882026-05-13T00:00:00-05:002025-12-09Women's Friendship in Medieval Literature ed. by Karma Lochrie and Usha Vishnuvajjala (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976707
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In Women's Friendship in Medieval Literature, editors Karma Lochrie and Usha Vishnubajjal bring together twelve other scholars who explore friendship in communities of visionaries, anchoresses, holy laypersons, female saints, poets, caregivers, female scribes, and nuns who wrote schwesternbücher—nuns' books for and about women. Reading their book will be a meditation for many thanks to the writers' care and love for medieval women and for us. The unified whole models a spirit of friendship among the fourteen authors who create spaces for women's voices of sororal love, fear, self-doubt, anomie, support, and community building. The editors' introduction serves as a map and prepares readers for the long journey
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-13T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/525/image/coversmallWomen's Friendship in Medieval Literature ed. by Karma Lochrie and Usha Vishnuvajjala (review)2025-12-09text/htmlen-USWomen's Friendship in Medieval Literature ed. by Karma Lochrie and Usha Vishnuvajjala (review)2025-12-092025TWOProject MUSE®69682026-05-13T00:00:00-05:002025-12-09Never on Time, Always in Time: Narrative Form and the Queer Sensorium by Kate McCullough (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976708
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Queer temporality—or as Kate McCullough puts it, the "queerinhabitation of time"—is not exactly a new area of interest (19). It emerged in the early 2000s, crystallized by a GLQ special issue in 2006. Lee Edelman, in No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive (2004), Jack Halberstam, in his In a Queer and Place (2005), and Valerie Rohy, in Anachronism and Its Others: Sexuality, Race, Temporality (2009), expanded upon the radicalism of the topic, recognizing the ways in which asynchrony, backwardness, and arrested development undermine the future-directed teleology of heterosexuality. When I teach and write about those titans of LGBTQ+ studies, I am guilty of an oversimplification: the old Whitney Houston lyric, "I
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-13T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/525/image/coversmallNever on Time, Always in Time: Narrative Form and the Queer Sensorium by Kate McCullough (review)2025-12-09text/htmlen-USNever on Time, Always in Time: Narrative Form and the Queer Sensorium by Kate McCullough (review)2025-12-092025TWOProject MUSE®71292026-05-13T00:00:00-05:002025-12-09Citizens by Treaty: Texts by Hispanic New Mexicans, 1846-1925 by A. Gabriel Meléndez (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976709
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Citizens by Treaty, a collection gathered, edited, and translated by A. Gabriel Meléndez, opens with Brigadier General Stephen Watts Kearny's 1846 declaration that the lands that were once part of Mexico's northern territory now belonged to the United States. Alcalde Juan Bautista Vigil y Alarid, the Mexican governor of what is now New Mexico, proclaimed these lands' allegiance to Kearny (ix). He voiced appeasement, but encouraged resoluteness, since he understood that New Mexico was emerging into a new political reality (x). His words acknowledged the inevitable consequences of becoming a part of the United States. Yet, in speaking to his fellow nuevomexicanos, he urged them to accept these terms, but also to
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-13T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/525/image/coversmallCitizens by Treaty: Texts by Hispanic New Mexicans, 1846-1925 by A. Gabriel Meléndez (review)2025-12-09text/htmlen-USCitizens by Treaty: Texts by Hispanic New Mexicans, 1846-1925 by A. Gabriel Meléndez (review)2025-12-092025TWOProject MUSE®53362026-05-13T00:00:00-05:002025-12-09kiskisomitok: to remind each and one another by rueben quinn (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976710
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One of the most enduring clichés about Indigenous knowledge is that it is—and has always been—primarily oral. While oral traditions are vital parts of many Indigenous epistemologies, the historical and political significance of Indigenous writing systems is diminished when orality is elevated as the sole marker of indigenous knowledge. In kiskisomitok ᑭᐢᑭᓱᒥᑐᐠ, nêhiyaw ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐤ (Cree) educator reuben quinn ᑳᐯᓵᑳᐢᑌᐠ (whose name is not alphabetized) foregrounds the legal, political, and spiritual knowledge embedded in the spirit marker writing system, colloquially known as Cree syllabics. The author eloquently demonstrates how atâhkipêyîhkanak ᐊᑕᐦᑭᐯᔩᐦᑲᓇᐠ– the spirit markers – embody the nêhiyaw ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐤ worldview: "Each
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-13T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/525/image/coversmallkiskisomitok: to remind each and one another by rueben quinn (review)2025-12-09text/htmlen-USkiskisomitok: to remind each and one another by rueben quinn (review)2025-12-092025TWOProject MUSE®86002026-05-13T00:00:00-05:002025-12-09The Last Cows: On Ranching, Wonder and a Woman's Heart by Kathryn Wilder (review)
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/976711
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Kathryn Wilder's second memoir, The Last Cows, questions how long can she keep up this life (1). After all, she runs a working cattle ranch, The Cachuma, located upon the arid valleys of the La Sal Mountains, part of the San Juan Mountain range near Diné (Navajo) homelands in Southwestern Colorado. "Cattle are [her] day job," and writing rules her nights.Coming from a ranching family in Southern California, Wilder's memories begin on the Rancho el Cojo along the California coastline. It is here she learned to be "ahorse and cowboy-up" (3). Wilder's craft is her exquisite ability to express a lifestyle that also seems on the verge of ending. She conjures cowboy ballads like the guitar strumming chords of "Strawberry
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Project MUSE®https://muse.jhu.edu/2026-05-13T00:00:00-05:00https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/525/image/coversmallThe Last Cows: On Ranching, Wonder and a Woman's Heart by Kathryn Wilder (review)2025-12-09text/htmlen-USThe Last Cows: On Ranching, Wonder and a Woman's Heart by Kathryn Wilder (review)2025-12-092025TWOProject MUSE®47092026-05-13T00:00:00-05:002025-12-09