...Brian M. Reed © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 John Ashbery and You: His Later Books . By John Emil Vincent. Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press. 2007. xii, 192 pp. $32.95. Beyond Maximus: The Construction of Public Voice in Black Mountain Poetry . By Anne Day Dewey. Stanford...

...James Applewhite © 2009 by Duke University Press 2009 The West Side of Any Mountain: Place, Space, and Ecopoetry . By J. Scott Bryson. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2005. 156 pp. $28.00. Book Reviews The Captive’s Position: Female Narrative, Male Identity, and Royal...

...Benjamin R. Lempert This essay uses two poetic works from the 1950s—Langston Hughes’s 1951 sequence Montage of a Dream Deferred and the poetry and poetics of Black Mountain pioneer Charles Olson—to articulate a theory of racially engaged, nonmimetic poetic musicality deriving from the engagement...

...Florencia Lauria Abstract This article considers Indigenous refusal to state-imposed US citizenship through a reading of Louise Erdrich’s The Night Watchman (2020). The novel follows the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa’s struggle to remain a federally recognized tribe during the US government’s...

... as Charles Egbert Craddock, the pseudonym under which she had published her stories in the Atlan- tic Monthly and then, with Aldrich’s support, in the popular collection In the Tennessee Mountains (1884). ‘‘No one remarked the anony- mous writer for the Herald, ‘‘can have suspected that the master...

..., acquires the material for his stories from a mysterious old man of the mountains.4 This mixing of fact and myth to produce authenticity re- curs throughout his work and, according to P. C. Morantte, Bulosan often exaggerated...

..., absence into presence. The manner in which American law shaped this early Chinese immi- grant writing is the concern that drives my essay. As I will argue, the poetry written on Angel Island as well as the poems collected in Songs of Gold Mountain, an anthology published in two parts by San Fran...

....—James Baldwin, ‘‘The Male Prison’’ Early in James Baldwin’s Go Tell It on the Mountain (1953), young John Grimes sits by a window, ‘‘dusty and weary’’ from cleaning his family’s living room in preparation for Sunday morning. Watching the boys in the street, he sees...

..., 40). Local Color without Local Color The critical acclaim that greeted Mary Murfree’s first collection of short stories, In the Tennessee Mountains (1884), neatly represents how realism had transformed local color by the 1880s.9 In praising Mur- free, or rather her nom de plume, Charles...

... of their times. The survey examines novels, short stories, poetry, drama, and essays in both French and English from a variety of print sources. Authority and the Mountaineer in Cormac McCarthy’s Appalachia. By Gabe Rikard. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. 2013. vi, 242 pp. Paper, $40.00, e-book available...

... death, each African American automortographer confronts the question, How does self- creation in an African American context include the staging of a post- humous self? Mountain Climbing In support of striking sanitation workers demanding a living wage, King returned to Memphis on 3 April 1968...

...) and The Way to Rainy Mountain (1969), Momaday begins to build his own narratives of wilderness, one based on personal experience and the other on Kiowa history. In both novels, he retains the idea from his poem that the wilderness represents a ‘‘bear-like’’ mode of being in the unknown as much as it does...

... of the United States. 1 Several months later, in winter of 1898—in a not altogether alternate universe—the Van der Linde gang, a group of criminals with a vaguely anarchist vision featured in Rockstar Games’ Red Dead Redemption franchise, retreated to the mountains as fugitives from the law. An early...

... Mountain, and Minidoka camps highlight continued conflicts that flared up throughout the 1860s. Manzanar camp was built on the site of forced removal of the Paiute and Shoshone in 1863; Amache camp in Colorado was built on the same prairie fifty miles away from the historic site of Sand Creek Massacre...

... Hampshire’s White Mountains, 1784–1911. By Pavel Cenkl. Iowa City: Univ. of Iowa Press. 2006. xxv, 178 pp. $34.95. Cenkl’s transhistorical study tracks the ways writers have represented one singular geographic location from the revolutionary era to the early twentieth century. Cenkl considers...

..., was interned for three years near Castle Rock Mountain in northern California, “the last battle ground of the Modoc Indians,” a landmark that gave her a sense of solidarity with the Modocs if not hope.10 In Poetic Reflections of the Tule Lake Internment Camp 1944 (1987), a volume of her...

... anthologized fable and one whose optimism few critics fail to remark,38 treats the nature of goodness but, like ‘‘David Swan attends as well to the nature of God. The tale concerns a New England village at the foot of a mountain...

... It on the Mountain (1963), and Song of Solomon (1977), the book illuminates the rhetorics of black male subjectivities, particularly in terms of characters’ strategic negotiations of race, sexuality, gender, and class. Oforlea demonstrates how Baldwin and Morrison invite an exploration of storytelling as an act...

..., The Way to Rainy Mountain, and The Names, The Ancient Child portrays Kiowa mythic narratives as providing a crucial source of knowledge for characters to use in inter- preting their life experiences. By recasting his personal experiences in relation to the “Kiowa story of Tsoai...

... the strongest chapter of the book, “Gay Cowboys Close to Home,” reads Ang Lee’s film Brokeback Mountain (2005) not as the story of a closeted man but rather as an attempt to rewrite the sexuality of the iconic cowboy figure. Though queer studies is a well-established field, two recent texts ask us to look...