Orphaned as an infant, Jimmy Memorana was fortunate to be adopted by Natkusiak, who had been a guide, together with Jimmy's own biological father (also named Jimmy Memorana), on explorer Vilhjalmur ...Stefansson's first trips to the Arctic from 1908 to 1912 (Stefansson, 1913). As Jimmy told me, "Natkusiak took me in when my parents died in the Spanish flu of 1919, and he put my father's name on me." Natkusiak had just finished working as Stefansson's chief guide on the Canadian Arctic Expedition from 1913 to 1916 (Stefansson, 1921) and had been key to its success. Stefansson was immensely grateful and gave him much of the surplus equipment, along with a schooner called the North Star. This gift allowed Natkusiak and his family to travel north off the Western Arctic mainland and return to the rich trapping area of Banks Island, which he had discovered on his exploratory travels with Stefansson's Canadian Arctic Expedition. This pristine area, previously unknown to the mainland Inuit, was teeming with the valuable white-furred arctic fox. Much is written about what today is termed traditional ecological knowledge (TEK). Such knowledge is, of course, an important element in the cultural identity of our northern peoples. As a working scientist seeking to learn about Arctic seals and whales, I have benefited greatly from the lessons passed on to me by the real hunters such as Memorana (Smith, 1987). In 1997, Jimmy was recognized for his significant contributions to science as a Fellow of the Arctic Institute of North America.
This interdisciplinary book honors Columbia professor and New York intellectual Carl Woodring. The depth of these original perspectives on the literature, art, politics, science, and philosophy of ...transatlantic nineteenth-century culture will foster future conversations.
Littoral Space and Self-Discovery Mohácsi, Eszter
Hungarian journal of English and American studies,
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The point of departure of this essay is that seaside resort towns and hotels function as in-between, liminal spaces for visitors, while the unknown, boundless, and mysterious sea often acquires a ...metaphorical meaning as a symbol of monsters, madness, death, desire, and the unconscious. Thus, the liminal space of the seaside serves as an appropriate setting that facilitates self-realization. The three novels selected for study here are set in British seaside towns in the 1960s-1970s, and present their respective protagonists’ struggle with their past memories and traumas.
In Ian McEwan’s On Chesil Beach (2007), the newlyweds get a chance of selfunderstanding, however, they fail at communicating their fears and desires. Ultimately, the seaside remains a symbol of misunderstandings and trauma as well as the dividing line between the times before and after the sexual revolution of the 1960s. By contrast, the protagonists in Stanley Middleton’s novel, Holiday (1974), and Iris Murdoch’s The Sea, The Sea (1978) achieve self-awareness through either a time-travel that allows for re-living the past or a journey to the unconscious, respectively. Nevertheless, these novels also end on an ambiguous tone, and the question whether real self-understanding has been attained remains open.
This interdisciplinary book honors Columbia professor and New York intellectual Carl Woodring. Chapters on Romantic and Victorian literary culture written by leading scholars in the field join in ...conversation with Woodring's teachings on literature and visual art and his commentaries on American culture. A multiple-authored chapter of postscripts on the aesthetic range of Woodring's intellectual interests across cultural disciplines, his contributions to English studies and his informing influence on several generations of scholars, and their areas of interest, follows. A chapter from Woodring's unpublished autobiography, on his childhood in small-town America, then concludes the volume with an ironic retrospection on intercultural origins.
Topics addressed among the chapters include portraiture and self-fashioning, landscape art, physiognomy and caricatures, radical print ephemera, illustrated picaresque verse, social and political satire, traditions of the sublime in art and literature, transatlantic influences and aesthetics, chaos theory and the laws of thermodynamics, the Caribbean slave trade, revolutionary history, Napoleonic wars, the politics of multicultural communities, gender and race, marginalia and textual revelations, Native America, historical interchanges in curating museum shows, and contemporary American sculpture and art. Cultural figures of the nineteenth century that are featured in the discussions include Henry Adams, Beethoven, Blake, Byron, Willa Cather, Thomas Cole, Coleridge, James Fenimore Cooper, George Cruikshank, Ugo Foscolo, Washington Irving, Keats, Willibrord Mähler, George Romney, Rowlandson, Shelley, and Wordsworth.
Chapter essays, commentaries, and Carl Woodring's unpublished writings function together in Nature, Politics, and the Arts: Essays on Romantic Culture for Carl Woodring-with a depth of original perspectives and a multi-voiced and intercultural coherence. The book as a whole testifies to Woodring's living and intellectually potent legacy for future students of nineteenth-century transatlantic culture and twenty-first century scholarship on literature and art.
OTTO SCHAEFER (1919–2009) Hankins, Gerald; MacDonald, Robert
Arctic,
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At the Camsell Hospital, where he first met Indians and Inuit from northern Canada, he made every effort to learn their ways and to study the diseases and ailments that required their evacuation to ...the south. Two-thirds of the 400 beds were filled with tuberculosis patients of all ages, including children with tuberculous meningitis. Otto Schaefer noted their loneliness away from home and learned from them about other diseases that ran rampant in northern communities. After three months, he felt his orientation to the North was complete. In January 1953, he got the call to go to Aklavik in the Mackenzie Delta. Initially called shik shik (little squirrel) for his gait, he would later be known affectionately as luttaakuluk (dear little doctor). At Aklavik, he was required to do the major surgery at the Anglican and Roman Catholic hospitals as well as to travel by dog team and canoe to the outlying settlements and camps. He continued to absorb as much as he could from the Inuvialuit and Gwich'in, including their wisdom and resourceful practices such as using spruce gum applied to wounds. There also, the Schaefers' son Lothar was born. After two years, Otto and Didi, his staunch supporter, were posted to Pangnirtung on Baffin Island, where they would spend two years. Helped by an elder, Etuangat, who insisted on using Inuktitut, Schaefer learned much about the Inuit from their traditional remedies (whether successful or not) and from the way Etuangat taught his own son. The two men traveled by dog team to the settlements and camps of Baffin Island, sometimes in blizzard conditions. Hospital work and medical examinations were part of the routine. Schaefer learned the Inuktitut language, ate raw frozen caribou meat, operated by the light of a seal-oil lamp, and developed a genuine friendship and rapport with the Inuit. The Schaefer family, increased by a daughter Taoya, enjoyed the beautiful country, the music, and the celebrations. In 1974, Otto chaired the Third International Symposium on Circumpolar Health, which he chose to place in Yellowknife, so that Northerners could be involved. Recognized as an international authority on the health of circumpolar dwellers, Otto received many honours and awards. In 1976, Governor General Jules Léger pinned the Order of Canada on the lapel of Otto's borrowed suit. In 1981, his work was recognized with the opening of the Dr. Otto Schaefer Health Resource Centre of the Department of Health, Government of the Northwest Territories, in Yellowknife. That same year, Otto was awarded an honorary degree from the University of Manitoba. In 1987, he was awarded the Jack Hildes Medal, named after his long-time collaborator and friend.
In the course of her long and successful athletic career, track and field champion Ingeborg Mello (1919–2009) was active within politically charged contexts that underscore the use of sport as a ...means of social exclusion or integration. Born in Berlin, she began as a promising teenage athlete on the Jewish sport scene of National Socialist Germany and finished as one of the finest Argentine athletes of all time. This paper describes Mello's early athletic experience, the circumstances of her departure from the country of her birth and her “second life” as a sporting star in Argentina from the late 1930s until 1974. Having earned fame by reason of her courage and self-control in competition, she scored numerous international and national victories, set several records and represented Argentina at two Olympic Games. Ingeborg Mello overcame adversity to make a fascinating contribution to international sport.
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