scholarly journals The Spectacular Traveling Woman

Transfers ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Galletly
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Interwar Period ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Modern Girl ◽  
Popular Magazines ◽  
Anglophone World ◽  
Print Cultures

This article applies recent scholarship concerned with transatlantic mobility and print cultures to a comparative study of images of transpacific travel for women during the interwar period. During the 1920s and 1930s female travelers splashed spectacularly across the pages of mainstream, popular magazines produced in America, Britain, and the wider Anglophone world. Focusing on two magazines that launched in this era, The Australian Woman’s Mirror (1924– 1961) and Chatelaine (1928–), this article explores Australian and Canadian fi ctional portrayals of the traveling woman of the interwar years to examine the ways in which the mobility of the modern girl became a screen for anxieties and fantasies of these two national print imaginaries. By paying attention to the different portrayals of female mobility through the Pacific from both sides of the ocean, this article also considers the intersection between actual travel, ideas about travel, and notions of gendered social mobility.

scholarly journals Worldly Tastes

Transfers ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 52-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria Kuttainen ◽  
Susann Liebich
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Print Culture ◽  
Interwar Period ◽  
Geographical Mobility ◽  
Class Standing ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Literary Histories ◽  
Contemporary Writing ◽  
Mobile Culture

In the interwar period, increasingly mobile Australians began to contemplate travel across the Pacific, both toward Asia as well as to America. Contemporary writing reflected this highly mobile culture and Pacific gaze, yet literary histories have overlooked this aspect of cultural history. Instead of looking to Australian novels as indexes of culture, as literary studies often do, this article explores the range of writing and print culture in magazines, concentrating on notions of mobility through the Pacific. Its focus is on the quality magazines MAN and The Home, which addressed two distinct, gendered readerships, but operated within similar cultural segments. This article suggests that the distinct geographical imaginaries of these magazines, which linked travel and geographical mobility with aspiration and social mobility, played a role in consolidating and nourishing the class standing of their readers, and revealed some of their attitudes toward gender and race.

Naval Gunfire Support at Iwo Jima

2019 ◽  
pp. 202-238
Author(s):  
Donald K. Mitchener
Keyword(s):  
Interwar Period ◽  
Marine Corps ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Amphibious Warfare ◽  
The U.S ◽  
The Way

One component of the American amphibious warfare doctrine developed by the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps during the interwar period concerned the use of naval gunfire in the softening up of enemy defenses prior to the landing of troops ashore. Historians of the war in the Pacific have traditionally argued that the Americans made mistakes, but that they learned valuable lessons along the way and applied those lessons fairly consistently. This chapter by Donald K. Mitchener asserts that this argument needs modification in the case of pre-assault naval gunfire support at Iwo Jima. It describes how the need to maintain strategic momentum against Japan resulted in a gunfire plan that was not adequate to the task. The chapter also shows how General Kuribayashi, the Japanese commander at Iwo, inadvertently created a defensive scheme that caused the Americans to waste much of the ammunition they expended on their last day of naval gunfire preparation.

Ambivalent Mobilities in the Pacific

Transfers ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas Halter
Keyword(s):  
Travel Writing ◽  
Interwar Period ◽  
Pacific Islands ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Middlebrow Literature ◽  
Multiple Discourses ◽  
Travel Accounts ◽  
At Home

Australian travel writing of the interwar period expanded with the growth of tourism in the Pacific Islands and the development of publishing and literacy at home. This article focuses on how the Australian middlebrow imagination was shaped by the diverse travel accounts of Australian tourists, adventurers, executives, scientists, officials, and missionaries writing at this time. Many of their texts borrowed and blended multiple discourses, simultaneously promoting the islands as educational and exotic, and appealing to an Australian middlebrow readership. In this article I argue that not only was travel writing middlebrow in its content and style, but the islands themselves were a particularly middlebrow setting. This is evident in representations of the islander “savage” in the region of Melanesia, a prevalent theme in Australian travelogues. I argue that this middlebrow literature was characterized by ambivalent and often contradictory ideas about the civilized “self” and the savage “other.”

scholarly journals Two continents and two names for a Neotropical colletid bee species (Hymenoptera: Colletidae: Neopasiphaeinae): Hoplocolletes ventralis (Friese, 1924)

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eduardo A B Almeida ◽  
Fábio B Quinteiro
Keyword(s):  
Pacific Ocean ◽  
South America ◽  
Comparative Study ◽  
Neotropical Species ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
The Pacific Ocean ◽  
Phylogenetic Hypotheses ◽  
First Time

Neopasiphaeinae bees (Apoidea: Colletidae) are well known for their Amphinotic distribution in the Australian and Neotropical regions. Affinities between colletid taxa in Australia and South America have been speculated for decades, and have been confirmed by recent phylogenetic hypotheses that indicate a biogeographic scenario compatible with a trans-Antarctic biotic connection during the Paleogene. Despite this proximity, no species occurs on both sides of the Pacific Ocean, but the Neotropical species Hoplocolletes ventralis (Friese, 1924), which was described as an Australian taxon due to an error in the specimen labels. This mistake was recognized by C.D.Michener 50 years ago. We herein report that the same labeling problem also happened with Dasycolletes chalceus Friese, 1924, which remained as a tentatively placed species in the Australian genus Leioproctus until now. Moreover, Dasycolletes chalceus is interpreted as a synonym of Dasycolletes ventralis. We also provide a revised diagnosis for Hoplocolletes, describe the male of H. ventralis in detail for the first time, including a comparative study of its genitalia and associated sterna.

Global Variation in the Anglophone World

2019 ◽  
pp. 629-653
Author(s):  
Bernd Kortmann
Keyword(s):  
Structural Complexity ◽  
Diagnostic Features ◽  
Data Set ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
The Caribbean ◽  
English Speaking World ◽  
Anglophone World ◽  
L1 And L2 ◽  
Different Parts

Based on the data set in the electronic World Atlas of Varieties of English, the primary purpose of this chapter is to determine the areal and global reach as well as the degree of distinctiveness of morphosyntactic properties for fifty spontaneous spoken L1 and L2 Englishes as well as twenty-six English-based pidgins and creoles spoken in seven Anglophone world regions (Africa, North America, Australia, British Isles, the Caribbean, the Pacific, South and Southeast Asia). Central questions addressed include the following: Which are the most widespread non-standard morphosyntactic features in the Anglophone world? Are there distinctive, or even diagnostic, features for the different variety types? Is it possible to identify systematic correlations between variety type and different degrees of structural complexity? Which are the most widespread or even diagnostic features for the different parts of the English-speaking world?

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