Native Southern Transformations, or, Light in August and Werewolves

2019 ◽  
pp. 148-166
Author(s):  
Eric Gary Anderson
Keyword(s):  
North Pole ◽  
Southern Studies ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Glacial Period ◽  
Light In August ◽  
The North ◽  
The World

In the world of Light in August, a cotton warehouse tank can look like the torso of a beheaded mastodon and an elderly couple "might have been two muskoxen strayed from the north pole, or two homeless and belated beasts from beyond the glacial period." Here and elsewhere in the novel, Faulkner's reach transforms characters and environs. While none of the major characters is native to Jefferson, let alone Indigenous, some are astonishingly non-native and most if not all become more non-native and more homeless as the novel unfolds. With these and other unsettlements in mind, the chapter places Light in August alongside Mongrels, a native southern werewolf novel by Blackfeet writer Stephen Graham Jones. Tracking the monsters and the mongrel transformations in both novels, the chapter presents and argument for the transformative methodological value of native southern studies.

Recent development of Arctic air routes

Polar Record ◽  
1962 ◽  
Vol 11 (72) ◽  
pp. 261-264
Author(s):  
John Grierson
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Long Range ◽  
North Pole ◽  
The Real ◽  
The North ◽  
The World ◽  
North Polar ◽  
The One ◽  
Over The Top

Since Andrée's magnificent failure to fly to the North Pole in a balloon in 1897, two great epochs have been marked in polar aviation. The first was the epoch of adventure, lasting nearly 60 years, which attracted to its ranks such men as Roald Amundsen, Lincoln Ellsworth, Umberto Nobile, Richard Byrd, Charles Lindbergh, Gino Watkins and the real father of Arctic aviation, Hubert Wilkins. Many others added their quota of experience until enough was known, and the technique of long-range polar flying had developed sufficiently far, for a regular air line to start operations across the North Polar Basin. That was on 15 November 1954 when Scandinavian Airways System (SAS) opened the first air route over the top of the world, from Europe to North America. This heralded the second epoch—the one of consolidation, and the purpose of this article is to describe very briefly the course of developments during these last seven and a half years.

scholarly journals A New Model to Explain the Alignment of Certain Ancient Sites

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-232
Author(s):  
Mark Carlotto
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
North Pole ◽  
Earth’S Crust ◽  
Upper Egypt ◽  
New Model ◽  
The Past ◽  
The North ◽  
The World ◽  
Global Patterns ◽  
Earth's Crust

In a previous study of over two hundred ancient sites, the alignments of almost half of the sites could not be explained. These sites are distributed throughout the world and include the majority of Mesoamerican pyramids and temples that are misaligned with respect to true north, megalithic structures at several sites in Peru’s Sacred Valley, some pyramids in Lower Egypt, and numerous temples in Upper Egypt. A new model is proposed to account for the alignment of certain unexplained sites based on an application of Charles Hapgood’s hypothesis that global patterns of climate change over the past 100,000 years could be the result of displacements of the Earth’s crust and corresponding shifts of the geographic poles. It is shown that over 80% of the unexplained sites reference four locations within 30° of the North Pole that are correlated with Hapgood’s hypothesized pole locations. The alignments of these sites are consistent with the hypothesis that if they were built in alignment with one of these former poles they would be misaligned to north as they are now as the result of subsequent pole shifts.

Polar aspects of the Transglobe Expedition

Polar Record ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 22 (136) ◽  
pp. 51-56
Author(s):  
Ranulph Fiennes
Keyword(s):  
Ellesmere Island ◽  
North Pole ◽  
Polar Regions ◽  
South Pole ◽  
The South ◽  
Northwest Passage ◽  
The North ◽  
Pack Ice ◽  
Greenwich Meridian ◽  
The World

AbstractThe Transglobe Expedition (leader Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Bt.), circumnavigated the world between September 1979 and 1982, keeping as close as possible to the Greenwich meridian. This involved journeys in both polar regions. During the expedition's southern phase (1979–81) two overwintering bases were established in Antarctica and a party of three crossed the icecap on snowmobiles, via the South Pole. During the northern phase (1981–83) two men traversed the Northwest Passage by boat on foot, sledging across Ellesmere Island to the settlement of Alert, where a party of three overwintered. Two then set out over the pack ice, crossing the North Pole and drifting with the floating ice toward Svalbard, to be picked up by the expedition ship.

Polar Maps

1949 ◽  
Vol 42 (5) ◽  
pp. 219-226
Author(s):  
John Kinsella ◽  
A. Day Bradley
Keyword(s):  
Northern Hemisphere ◽  
Relative Size ◽  
North Pole ◽  
Focused Attention ◽  
Polar Regions ◽  
The North ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
North Polar

It is time for us to get better acquainted with the top and bottom of the earth. The strategic importance of the North Polar Regions is becoming increasingly evident and recent explorations in Antarctica have focused attention on that part of the world. We are accustomed to looking at maps which either exclude the polar regions or which distort excessively the distances, directions and relative size of areas in these parts of the globe. Many maps in common usage do not indicate clearly that the great circles between many important cities in the Northern Hemisphere pass near the North Pole.

scholarly journals Mythos of the North Pole: The Top of the World

Nordlit ◽  
2015 ◽  
pp. 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susi K. Frank
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Vertical Axis ◽  
North Pole ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Hierarchical Order ◽  
The North ◽  
Static Image ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Different Cultures

<p align="LEFT">Not a few early twentieth-century cultural histories conceive of the development of humanity in modern times as a northward shift of the civilizational centre. In this thinking, they transform into narrative and geography the static image of a cosmos constructed along one axis of the globe, based on the Christian story of salvation. In this notion of the cosmos, with its upward-oriented vertical axis understood as a sign of hierarchical order, these histories refer back to a global symbolic legacy with origins in the cosmologies of very different cultures: the idea of the world as a mountain, the world with a mountain and a summit at its centre. In my article I trace the history of this image and its visualization from European antiquity onto the peak of heroic modernism in the first half of the twentieth century. In conclusion I ask what kind of transformation this image underwent to survive in our (still) post-heroic times.</p>

scholarly journals The linguocultural semantics of the anthroponyms and toponyms in G. Martin’s novel A Game of Thrones and the peculiarities of their translation into Ukrainain

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Great Britain ◽  
Proper Names ◽  
Real Life ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The North ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
Single Strategy ◽  
Social Code ◽  
Game Of Thrones

The article analyses the linguocultural features of the anthroponyms and toponyms in fiction and their translation into Ukrainian (linguocultural factor taken into account) basing on G. Martin’s novel A Game of Thrones. The main differences between fiction onyms and real life onyms existing in language are defined. Fiction onyms are influenced by such factors as the cultural and social code, historical information, fiction space, the author’s attitude to this or that phenomenon. It is established that in the analysed novel, the characters’ names contain information about the status and place of living of their owners: the names of those who live in the North are based on old English, Scottish and Welsh names, the wildings get Scandinavian ones, those who live in the South get variants of Roman, Greek and Arabic names. The author often makes speaking names and allusions to real historic personalities. It is pointed out that the world in which the characters of the novel exist has a medieval English colouring, so the characters’ names often look like real names of that period or are their derivatives. Complex toponyms often contain parts of words that can be found among the toponyms of Great Britain and carry certain historic information. A conclusion is drawn about the expressive linguocultural features of the proper names of the novel by G. Martin A game of Thrones which reflect the nationally specific cultural and historic information. Choosing translation means in each case is up to the translator who has to consider the linguocultural factor too, as the translation of fiction onyms is much more difficult than the translation of real proper names. In certain cases, the translation can be called more or less successful but there is no single strategy for rendering authorial proper names that carry semantic and cultural information.

scholarly journals The Sea of Ice and the Icy Sea: The Arctic Frame of Frankenstein

ARCTIC ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 295
Author(s):  
Janice Cavell
Keyword(s):  
Complex Form ◽  
North Pole ◽  
Circumstantial Evidence ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Napoleonic Wars ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Far North ◽  
The North ◽  
European Culture ◽  
Opening And Closing

It has become common for scholars to understand the Arctic framing narrative of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein as a commentary on the northern expeditions sent out by the British Admiralty after the Napoleonic Wars. According to this view, the character Robert Walton is a surrogate for John Barrow, the principal organizer of the Admiralty expeditions. This article demonstrates that chronological factors make such an interpretation untenable. Yet the process through which the far North became the setting for Frankenstein’s opening and closing scenes is of great importance for understanding the evolution of the novel into its final complex form and with regard to broader considerations about the Arctic’s place in Romantic literary culture. The article suggests other sources for the Arctic frame, most notably the 1815 plan by whaler William Scoresby for a sledge expedition toward the North Pole. Although Scoresby’s lecture was not published until 1818, reports appeared in newspapers and periodicals soon after the lecture was given. There is strong circumstantial evidence to suggest that Mary Shelley read these reports. By tracing the likely influence of Scoresby and other Arctic writers on Frankenstein, the article both sheds new light on the novel itself and demonstrates the extent of the Arctic’s presence in European culture even before the famous Admiralty expeditions.

scholarly journals The Popularization of Astronomy

1990 ◽  
Vol 105 ◽  
pp. 323-327
Author(s):  
Patrick Moore
Keyword(s):  
Hollow Sphere ◽  
German Society ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
North Pole ◽  
The North ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
The Universe

I suppose it is inevitable that astronomy should be one of the easier sciences to “popularize.” The sky is all around us; even our remote cave-dwelling ancestors must have looked up into the sky and wondered at what they saw there, even though they could have no idea of the nature or scale of the universe. Naturally, they believed the Earth to be supreme, and to have everything else arranged around it for our special convenience. Believe it or not, this point of view is not quite dead even now — and this brings me on to my first point.Some time ago I attended a meeting of the International Flat Earth Society, held in London. Its members believe that the world is shaped like a pancake, with the North Pole in the middle and a wall of ice all around. The meeting was quite remarkable, and participants were totally sincere. Later, I rather ill-naturedly put them in touch with a German society whose members maintain that we live on the inside of a hollow sphere, and I understand that they are still fighting it out; but of course this is quite harmless — and as I have often said, the world would be poorer without its “Independent Thinkers.” But other aspects of eccentric thought are less laudable, and of course I am thinking of astrology, which has experienced a curious revival in recent times.

Olaudah Equiano

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bryan Wagner ◽  
Parker Kjellin-Elder
Keyword(s):  
Life Story ◽  
North Pole ◽  
Gold Coast ◽  
Royal Navy ◽  
Ruling Class ◽  
Olaudah Equiano ◽  
Middle Passage ◽  
The North ◽  
The World ◽  
Spiritual Conversion

Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, as he was known during his lifetime (b. 1745?–d. 1797), was a writer and polemicist of extraordinary abilities. His Interesting Narrative informs readers that he was born into a ruling-class Igbo family in 1745 and was kidnapped at the age of eleven. He tells readers that he was then sold to Europeans on the Gold Coast and made to endure the dreaded transatlantic Middle Passage to Virginia. After this time, he was sold to Michael Henry Pascal, an officer in the British Royal Navy, who, against Equiano’s will, named him Gustavus Vassa, a name that Equiano used throughout the rest of his life. Traveling with Pascal to England, Equiano was officially baptized, he tells us, in 1759. After his baptism, Pascal recruited Equiano for the Seven Years’ War. Equiano mistakenly assumed that Pascal would free him at the end of the conflict. Instead, Pascal sold him into West Indian slavery. From there, Equiano worked to save enough money and purchase his own manumission in 1766. With his new freedom, Equiano sailed the world, gaining the rank of able seaman, as he traveled across the Atlantic and even to the North Pole. After that harrowing journey, Equiano experienced a spiritual conversion to Methodism in 1774, and grew publicly involved with the antislavery debate, through letters, speeches, and his own Interesting Narrative. He married a white Englishwoman, Susanna Cullen, in 1792, and had two daughters, only one of whom survived to inherit the estate that Equiano left for her when he died on 31 March 1797. Biographer Vincent Carretta suggests that aspects of Equiano’s life story, including his African nativity, may be fabricated, as Equiano’s baptismal record lists him as “a Black born in Carolina 12 years old,” a possibility supported by one ship’s muster logs. Following on Carretta’s research, critics continue to debate important questions about genre, evidence, imagination, authenticity, testimony, and authorship.

scholarly journals Prospects for the development of Arctic cruise tourism in the western sector of the Russian Arctic

2020 ◽  
pp. 130-138
Author(s):  
A.V. Kunnikov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
North Pole ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Russian Arctic ◽  
Western Sector ◽  
Novaya Zemlya ◽  
The North ◽  
Northern Sea Route ◽  
Franz Josef Land ◽  
The World ◽  
Cruise Tourism

Arctic cruise tourism is becoming more and more popular every year. With the development of tourism infrastructure, icebreaker fleet and other delivery means, the number of tourists visiting the Arctic from all over the world is growing. Arctic tourism includes not only cruises directly to the North Pole, but also cruises to the Arctic Archipelagos of Franz Josef Land, Novaya Zemlya and voyages along the Northern Sea Route.

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