Cultivating a Shared Sense of Place: Ethnic Mexicans and the Environment in Twentieth-Century Kansas City

Diálogo ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raymond W. Rast
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Kansas City ◽  
Ethnic Mexicans

scholarly journals “Decipher its noises for us”: Understanding Sycorax’s Island in Marina Warner’s Indigo

2012 ◽  
pp. 269
Author(s):  
Erin M. Presley
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Gloria Naylor ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Know How ◽  
The Tempest ◽  
The People ◽  
Personal Histories ◽  
The Caribbean

The Marina Warner’s novel Indigo, or Mapping the Waters (1992) explores the effects of colonialism on the islanders of Liamuiga and the Everard family through a complex retelling of Shakespeare’s The Tempest that spans over three hundred years. Much like the appropriative novels of Gloria Naylor, in which past and present blend and meld, Indigo also suggests that time is not linear in its development. The subtitle, or Mapping the Waters, positions a sense of place at the crux of Warner’s novel. Moving back and forth between the twentieth century and the dawn of the seventeenth century, the novel also shifts between London and the Caribbean, suggesting the global import of Shakespeare’s late romance. The scene, in the Burkean sense, influences the actions of the characters as they struggle to be heard in their respective settings. Language also affects the ways in which these characters come to terms with their personal histories. Ultimately, the novel seeks to displace the hopelessness of Caliban’s decree in The Tempest —“You taught me language, and my profit on’t / Is I know how to curse” (1.2.364-65)— by giving a voice to the people silenced by colonialism.

scholarly journals Lay Observers, Telegraph Lines, and Kansas Weather: The Field Network as a Mode of Knowledge Production

2011 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 259-280 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy Vetter
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Kansas City ◽  
Geographically Distributed ◽  
Local Observation ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Local Observer ◽  
Field Network

ArgumentThis paper examines the field network – linking together lay observers in geographically distributed locations with a central figure who aggregated their locally produced observations into more general, regional knowledge – as a historically emergent mode of knowledge production. After discussing the significance of weather knowledge as a vital domain in which field networks have operated, it describes and analyzes how a more robust and systematized weather observing field network became established and maintained on the ground in the early twentieth century. This case study, which examines two Kansas City-based local observer networks supervised by the same U.S. Weather Bureau office, demonstrates some of the key issues involved in maintaining field networks, such as the role of communications infrastructure, especially the telegraph, the procedures designed to make local observation more systematic and uniform, and the centralized, hierarchical power relations that underpinned even a low-status example of knowledge production on the periphery.

scholarly journals Nature’s Haunted House

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 95-102
Author(s):  
D.J. Waldie
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Long Beach ◽  
The Way

This essay considers the fluid lines between history, nature, and the urban realm. Beginning with land cultivated by the Bixby family near Long Beach, California from 1878 into the mid-twentieth century, Waldie discusses how the landscape has changed by the Bixbys and those who came before and since. He then turns his attention to his own suburban neighborhood and California more broadly, and the way a sense of place, history, community, and nature are bound up in them.

scholarly journals “I Dreamed of Snow Today”: Impediments to Settler Belonging in Northern Queensland as Depicted in a Selection of Recent Fiction

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Stockdale
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Prime Minister ◽  
Indigenous Australians ◽  
Historical Basis ◽  
Extreme Responses ◽  
Feeling At Home ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
At Home

In 2001, Geoffrey Blainey argued that “a high proportion” of non-Indigenous Australians have developed a sense of place, “of feeling at home” in their country, that “has in part been created or manufactured”. Though historians have contributed to this, he says, “Painters and writers have done most to create it” as “They tried to provide a sense of belonging, and a sense of continuity and history” (Boyer Lecture n. pag.). Several recent Australian novels - each with some historical basis - are set in Queensland’s north and offer contemporary perceptions of the area’s history from settlement to the end of the twentieth century. Published the year after the Mabo Decision, and Prime Minister Paul Keating’s “Redfern Speech”, David Malouf’s 1993 novel, Remembering Babylon, is a fitting point to commence exploring depictions of settler society’s relations to northern Queensland. Three other novels included in this study are Alex Miller’s Journey to the Stone Country (2003), and Landscape of Farewell (2007), along with Gordon Smith’s Dalrymple (2006). In these stories northern settlers struggle to cope - physically, psychologically and emotionally. The difficulties for settlers in developing an attachment to north Queensland, and their sometimes extreme responses, illustrate the powerful interaction between place, belonging and identity.

Residence

Yiddish ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 31-47
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Shandler
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Significant Shift ◽  
Ashkenazi Jews ◽  
Geographic Boundaries ◽  
Early Twentieth Century

This chapter examines how Yiddish, as the language of a diasporic minority, has been associated with a sense of place. Within its European “heartland,” the isoglosses of Yiddish dialects articulate geographic boundaries distinct to Ashkenazi Jews and reflect their long history across the continent. Though early twentieth-century efforts to create a Yiddish-speaking polity were short-lived, their aspirations constitute a significant shift in conceptualizing a geographic place for Yiddish. Conversely, the diaspora nationalist ideology of doikeyt (“here-ness”) and the notion of Yiddishland as a locus defined by the use of the language offer provocative alternatives to ideologies of nationhood tied to sovereignty and turf.

scholarly journals The Permanence of Place: Places and Their Names in Irish Literature

2009 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 93-109
Author(s):  
Piotr Stalmaszczyk ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Short Stories ◽  
Sense Of Place ◽  
Irish Literature ◽  
Modern Drama ◽  
Attachment To Place ◽  
Human Emotions

This paper discusses the relation between places and their names as reflected in Irish literature. According to Robbie Hannan (1991: 19) attachment to place is among the strongest human emotions, explicitly revealed in literature. Celtic literature is ‘saturated’ with images of landscape and preoccupied with places and their names, landscape is constantly present in ancient sagas and bardic poetry, modern drama, short stories, novels and essays. The sense of place is explicitly manifest in medieval heroic tales (such as The Táin), and twentieth century novels (e.g. James Joyce’s Ulysses) and poetry, or contemporary drama (e.g. Brian Friel’s Translations). Patrick Sheeran (1988: 194) has observed that the idea of the Irish sense of place is: (a) a product of the native tradition; (b) it is a verbal or nominal preoccupation and has little to do with any actual cultivation of things; (c) it relates to death rather than to life. The principal aim of this paper is to further add to the above characteristics.

Some Polish Composers of To-Day

Tempo ◽  
1948 ◽  
pp. 25-28
Author(s):  
Andrzej Panufnik
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Fertile Soil ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Progressive Group ◽  
Karol Szymanowski

It is ten years since KAROL SZYMANOWSKI died at fifty-four. He was the most prominent representative of the “radical progressive” group of early twentieth century composers, which we call “Young Poland.” In their manysided and pioneering efforts they prepared the fertile soil on which Poland's present day's music thrives.

V1214: Edward Loughborough Keyes: An Early Twentieth Century Leader In Urology

2004 ◽  
Vol 171 (4S) ◽  
pp. 320-320
Author(s):  
Peter J. Stahl ◽  
E. Darracott Vaughan ◽  
Edward S. Belt ◽  
David A. Bloom ◽  
Ann Arbor
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Early Twentieth Century
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