Anne Marie Oliver and Paul F. Steinberg
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195305593
- eISBN:
- 9780199850815
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195305593.003.0002
- Subject:
- Religion, Islam
The induction ceremony had been held shortly after they first arrived in Gaza. Yusuf had led them in to Beach Camp, then under siege by what seemed like hundreds of Israeli soldiers. The mass ...
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The induction ceremony had been held shortly after they first arrived in Gaza. Yusuf had led them in to Beach Camp, then under siege by what seemed like hundreds of Israeli soldiers. The mass confrontations between hundreds of Palestinians and Israeli soldiers would be later replaced by battles between organized groups of shabab and soldiers. But back then, the intifada was young, and the throngs on the street were ordinary people. They bumped into a young Palestine guard on duty who led them to a sanctuary. When the battle died down, they were able to navigate their way out of the camp back to the relative safety of the streets of Deir al–Balah, their eyes and throats stinging from tear gas, burning trash, and rubber.Less
The induction ceremony had been held shortly after they first arrived in Gaza. Yusuf had led them in to Beach Camp, then under siege by what seemed like hundreds of Israeli soldiers. The mass confrontations between hundreds of Palestinians and Israeli soldiers would be later replaced by battles between organized groups of shabab and soldiers. But back then, the intifada was young, and the throngs on the street were ordinary people. They bumped into a young Palestine guard on duty who led them to a sanctuary. When the battle died down, they were able to navigate their way out of the camp back to the relative safety of the streets of Deir al–Balah, their eyes and throats stinging from tear gas, burning trash, and rubber.
Malcolm Ausden
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- January 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780198568728
- eISBN:
- 9780191717529
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198568728.003.0009
- Subject:
- Biology, Biodiversity / Conservation Biology
This chapter discusses a range of intertidal habitats, mudflats, saltmarsh, and sandy and shingle beaches, together with habitats beyond the usual upper tidal limit, which are affected by coastal ...
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This chapter discusses a range of intertidal habitats, mudflats, saltmarsh, and sandy and shingle beaches, together with habitats beyond the usual upper tidal limit, which are affected by coastal processes, saline water, or exposure from salt-laden winds. These include sand dunes, cliffs, saline lagoons, brackish (between freshwater and seawater) marshes, and grasslands. The successional stages of intertidal habitats are largely determined by changes in coastal geomorphology (coastal processes), and in most cases less so by grazing or other forms of vegetation removal. Most principles of managing coastal habitats above the usual upper tidal limit are similar to those of their inland equivalents.Less
This chapter discusses a range of intertidal habitats, mudflats, saltmarsh, and sandy and shingle beaches, together with habitats beyond the usual upper tidal limit, which are affected by coastal processes, saline water, or exposure from salt-laden winds. These include sand dunes, cliffs, saline lagoons, brackish (between freshwater and seawater) marshes, and grasslands. The successional stages of intertidal habitats are largely determined by changes in coastal geomorphology (coastal processes), and in most cases less so by grazing or other forms of vegetation removal. Most principles of managing coastal habitats above the usual upper tidal limit are similar to those of their inland equivalents.
Orvar Löfgren
- Published in print:
- 1999
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520217676
- eISBN:
- 9780520928992
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520217676.003.0007
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Anthropology, Global
This chapter discusses the universalization of the beach experience. It first answers the questions of what is a beach, and what can a beach be used for. It studies the concept of paradise, which ...
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This chapter discusses the universalization of the beach experience. It first answers the questions of what is a beach, and what can a beach be used for. It studies the concept of paradise, which relies on the romance of the tropical beach and the South Pacific. It then identifies the three basic elements that make up the global beach, namely sand, sun, and sea, and states that the beach was the site of the making of the modern body. This chapter also discusses beach etiquette, how to signal privacy while on the beach, sand castles, and the activities one can do on a beach.Less
This chapter discusses the universalization of the beach experience. It first answers the questions of what is a beach, and what can a beach be used for. It studies the concept of paradise, which relies on the romance of the tropical beach and the South Pacific. It then identifies the three basic elements that make up the global beach, namely sand, sun, and sea, and states that the beach was the site of the making of the modern body. This chapter also discusses beach etiquette, how to signal privacy while on the beach, sand castles, and the activities one can do on a beach.
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520268838
- eISBN:
- 9780520948860
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520268838.003.0029
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter describes a tour to the beaches which takes the following route: Los Angeles–Culver City–Venice–Redondo–Wilmington–Long Beach–Seal Beach–Huntington Beach–Newport–Balboa–Laguna ...
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This chapter describes a tour to the beaches which takes the following route: Los Angeles–Culver City–Venice–Redondo–Wilmington–Long Beach–Seal Beach–Huntington Beach–Newport–Balboa–Laguna Beach–Doheny Park; 81.9 m; Washington Blvd., Venice Speedway, Vista del Mar, US 101A. Most of this route follows the coast of Los Angeles and Orange counties, where oil and resort towns string out like beads of a giant rosary. From downtown Los Angeles the route runs directly across the thickly built-up coastal plain to the Pacific shore, then turns south, with the sea always in view. The shore route crosses tidal flats and regions of sand dunes, then winds along the edge of the shore palisades in southeastern Orange County.Less
This chapter describes a tour to the beaches which takes the following route: Los Angeles–Culver City–Venice–Redondo–Wilmington–Long Beach–Seal Beach–Huntington Beach–Newport–Balboa–Laguna Beach–Doheny Park; 81.9 m; Washington Blvd., Venice Speedway, Vista del Mar, US 101A. Most of this route follows the coast of Los Angeles and Orange counties, where oil and resort towns string out like beads of a giant rosary. From downtown Los Angeles the route runs directly across the thickly built-up coastal plain to the Pacific shore, then turns south, with the sea always in view. The shore route crosses tidal flats and regions of sand dunes, then winds along the edge of the shore palisades in southeastern Orange County.
Thomas Docherty
- Published in print:
- 1996
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198183570
- eISBN:
- 9780191674075
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198183570.003.0007
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
This chapter analyses Medbh McGuckian's poems: The Flower Master (1982), Venus and the Rain (1984), and On Ballycastle Beach (1988). First, it charts some ‘initiations’, to demonstrate McGuckian's ...
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This chapter analyses Medbh McGuckian's poems: The Flower Master (1982), Venus and the Rain (1984), and On Ballycastle Beach (1988). First, it charts some ‘initiations’, to demonstrate McGuckian's concern for ritual and artifice and to probe the resulting idealism in writing. It then takes the temper of the verse, exploring the ethos of McGuckian's blank phenomenology or her idealist subjectivity. Finally, it links her writing to the forms of seduction, surrealism, and superrealist movements to describe a politics of her postmodernism questioning of the real.Less
This chapter analyses Medbh McGuckian's poems: The Flower Master (1982), Venus and the Rain (1984), and On Ballycastle Beach (1988). First, it charts some ‘initiations’, to demonstrate McGuckian's concern for ritual and artifice and to probe the resulting idealism in writing. It then takes the temper of the verse, exploring the ethos of McGuckian's blank phenomenology or her idealist subjectivity. Finally, it links her writing to the forms of seduction, surrealism, and superrealist movements to describe a politics of her postmodernism questioning of the real.
P. Nicole King
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- March 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781617032516
- eISBN:
- 9781617032523
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781617032516.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Social History
In 1949, Alan Schafer opened South of the Border, a beer stand located on bucolic farmland in Dillon County, South Carolina, near the border separating North and South Carolina. Even at its ...
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In 1949, Alan Schafer opened South of the Border, a beer stand located on bucolic farmland in Dillon County, South Carolina, near the border separating North and South Carolina. Even at its beginning, the stand catered to those interested in Mexican-themed kitsch—sombreros, toy piñatas, vividly colored panchos, salsas. Within five years, the beer stand had grown into a restaurant, then a series of restaurants, and then a theme park, complete with gas stations, motels, a miniature golf course, and an adult-video shop. Flashy billboards—featuring South of the Border’s stereotypical bandit Pedro—advertised the locale from 175 miles away. An hour south of Schafer’s site lies the Grand Strand region—sixty miles of South Carolina beaches and various forms of recreation. Within this region, Atlantic Beach exists. From the 1940s onward, Atlantic Beach has been a primary tourist destination for middle-class African Americans, as it was one of the few recreational beaches open to them in the region. Since the 1990s, the beach has been home to the Atlantic Beach Bikefest, a motorcycle festival event that draws upward of 10,000 African Americans and other tourists annually. This book studies both locales, separately and together, to illustrate how they serve as lens for viewing the historical, social, and aesthetic aspects embedded in a place’s culture over time. In doing so, the book engages with concepts of the “Newer South,” the contemporary era of southern culture.Less
In 1949, Alan Schafer opened South of the Border, a beer stand located on bucolic farmland in Dillon County, South Carolina, near the border separating North and South Carolina. Even at its beginning, the stand catered to those interested in Mexican-themed kitsch—sombreros, toy piñatas, vividly colored panchos, salsas. Within five years, the beer stand had grown into a restaurant, then a series of restaurants, and then a theme park, complete with gas stations, motels, a miniature golf course, and an adult-video shop. Flashy billboards—featuring South of the Border’s stereotypical bandit Pedro—advertised the locale from 175 miles away. An hour south of Schafer’s site lies the Grand Strand region—sixty miles of South Carolina beaches and various forms of recreation. Within this region, Atlantic Beach exists. From the 1940s onward, Atlantic Beach has been a primary tourist destination for middle-class African Americans, as it was one of the few recreational beaches open to them in the region. Since the 1990s, the beach has been home to the Atlantic Beach Bikefest, a motorcycle festival event that draws upward of 10,000 African Americans and other tourists annually. This book studies both locales, separately and together, to illustrate how they serve as lens for viewing the historical, social, and aesthetic aspects embedded in a place’s culture over time. In doing so, the book engages with concepts of the “Newer South,” the contemporary era of southern culture.
Jamin Wells
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- January 2022
- ISBN:
- 9781469660905
- eISBN:
- 9781469660929
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469660905.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Environmental History
Reframing the American story from the vantage point of the nation's watery edges, Shipwrecked shows how disasters have not only bedeviled the American beach--they created it. Though the American ...
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Reframing the American story from the vantage point of the nation's watery edges, Shipwrecked shows how disasters have not only bedeviled the American beach--they created it. Though the American beach is now one of the most commercialized, contested, and engineered places on the planet, few people visited it or called it home at the beginning of the nineteenth century. By the twentieth century, the American beach had become the summer encampment of presidents, a common destination for millions of citizens, and the site of rapidly growing beachfront communities. Shipwrecked tells the story of this epic transformation, arguing that coastal shipwrecks themselves changed how Americans viewed, used, and inhabited the shoreline.
Drawing on a broad range of archival material--including logbooks, court cases, personal papers, government records, and cultural ephemera--Wells examines how shipwrecks laid the groundwork for the beach tourism industry that would transform the American beach from coastal frontier to oceanfront playspace, spur substantial state and private investment alongshore, reshape popular ideas about the coast, and turn the beach into a touchstone of the American experience.Less
Reframing the American story from the vantage point of the nation's watery edges, Shipwrecked shows how disasters have not only bedeviled the American beach--they created it. Though the American beach is now one of the most commercialized, contested, and engineered places on the planet, few people visited it or called it home at the beginning of the nineteenth century. By the twentieth century, the American beach had become the summer encampment of presidents, a common destination for millions of citizens, and the site of rapidly growing beachfront communities. Shipwrecked tells the story of this epic transformation, arguing that coastal shipwrecks themselves changed how Americans viewed, used, and inhabited the shoreline.
Drawing on a broad range of archival material--including logbooks, court cases, personal papers, government records, and cultural ephemera--Wells examines how shipwrecks laid the groundwork for the beach tourism industry that would transform the American beach from coastal frontier to oceanfront playspace, spur substantial state and private investment alongshore, reshape popular ideas about the coast, and turn the beach into a touchstone of the American experience.
Orvar Löfgren
- Published in print:
- 1999
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520217676
- eISBN:
- 9780520928992
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520217676.003.0006
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Anthropology, Global
This chapter takes a look at the birth of Mediterranean package tourism. It discusses the situation of the Mediterranean countries as tourism became more and more popular, studies the growth of ...
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This chapter takes a look at the birth of Mediterranean package tourism. It discusses the situation of the Mediterranean countries as tourism became more and more popular, studies the growth of Riviera beach culture, and identifies the pioneers of charter tours. It addresses the argument that a Mediterranean vacation caused charter tourists to lose all their inhibitions, and discusses the discovery of new territories along the Mediterranean. This chapter also shows how the various islands and countries changed in order to accommodate the many tourists that vacationed there.Less
This chapter takes a look at the birth of Mediterranean package tourism. It discusses the situation of the Mediterranean countries as tourism became more and more popular, studies the growth of Riviera beach culture, and identifies the pioneers of charter tours. It addresses the argument that a Mediterranean vacation caused charter tourists to lose all their inhibitions, and discusses the discovery of new territories along the Mediterranean. This chapter also shows how the various islands and countries changed in order to accommodate the many tourists that vacationed there.
Paul Sabin
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520241985
- eISBN:
- 9780520931145
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520241985.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
Environmental issues became far more salient along the rapidly developing coast than in the dry, sparsely populated San Joaquin Valley. With the political conflict over state tidelands in Santa ...
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Environmental issues became far more salient along the rapidly developing coast than in the dry, sparsely populated San Joaquin Valley. With the political conflict over state tidelands in Santa Barbara County temporarily resolved by Boone and the legislative ban on new leases, the coastal controversy shifted to municipal lands at Venice and Huntington beaches. When the Huntington Beach story burst into full public view, the scandal focused on the economic losses to state coffers, rather than beach protection, since the new wells were not on the beach. The then Governor James Rolph, whose administration also publicly opposed coastal drilling, embraced an extraordinary backroom deal to transfer publicly-owned natural resources at Huntington Beach to trespassing private companies. But the trespassing and royalty agreements did little to capture revenue for the state government or to speed Huntington Beach's transition to its future beach economy.Less
Environmental issues became far more salient along the rapidly developing coast than in the dry, sparsely populated San Joaquin Valley. With the political conflict over state tidelands in Santa Barbara County temporarily resolved by Boone and the legislative ban on new leases, the coastal controversy shifted to municipal lands at Venice and Huntington beaches. When the Huntington Beach story burst into full public view, the scandal focused on the economic losses to state coffers, rather than beach protection, since the new wells were not on the beach. The then Governor James Rolph, whose administration also publicly opposed coastal drilling, embraced an extraordinary backroom deal to transfer publicly-owned natural resources at Huntington Beach to trespassing private companies. But the trespassing and royalty agreements did little to capture revenue for the state government or to speed Huntington Beach's transition to its future beach economy.
Lisa Jean Moore
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781479876303
- eISBN:
- 9781479848096
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479876303.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Health, Illness, and Medicine
Based on a multimethod study that centers on interviews with over 30 conservationists, field biologists, ecologists, paleontologists and over 3 years of my fieldwork on urban beaches in the New York ...
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Based on a multimethod study that centers on interviews with over 30 conservationists, field biologists, ecologists, paleontologists and over 3 years of my fieldwork on urban beaches in the New York City area, the Florida Keys, and international conferences, Catch and Release explores the interspecies relationships between humans and horseshoe crabs—our multiple sites of entanglement and enmeshment as we both come to matter.
As I show, crabs and humans make each other in particular ways. Humans have literally harvested the life out of horseshoe crabs for multiple purposes; we interpret them for understanding geologic time, we bleed them for biomedical applications, we collect them for agricultural fertilizer, we eat them as delicacies, we rescue them for conservation, we capture them as bait, we categorize them as Endangered. In contrast, the crabs make humans matter by revealing our species vulnerability to endotoxins, offering opportunities for career opportunities and profiteering off of crab bodies, and fertilizing the soil of agricultural harvest for human food. In these acts of harvesting, I consider how horseshoe crabs and humans make meaning of events such as the Anthropocene (the epoch of geologic time that attributes climate change and species decline to human activities), global warming, and biomedical innovation.Less
Based on a multimethod study that centers on interviews with over 30 conservationists, field biologists, ecologists, paleontologists and over 3 years of my fieldwork on urban beaches in the New York City area, the Florida Keys, and international conferences, Catch and Release explores the interspecies relationships between humans and horseshoe crabs—our multiple sites of entanglement and enmeshment as we both come to matter.
As I show, crabs and humans make each other in particular ways. Humans have literally harvested the life out of horseshoe crabs for multiple purposes; we interpret them for understanding geologic time, we bleed them for biomedical applications, we collect them for agricultural fertilizer, we eat them as delicacies, we rescue them for conservation, we capture them as bait, we categorize them as Endangered. In contrast, the crabs make humans matter by revealing our species vulnerability to endotoxins, offering opportunities for career opportunities and profiteering off of crab bodies, and fertilizing the soil of agricultural harvest for human food. In these acts of harvesting, I consider how horseshoe crabs and humans make meaning of events such as the Anthropocene (the epoch of geologic time that attributes climate change and species decline to human activities), global warming, and biomedical innovation.
Steven Feld and Virginia Ryan
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780719085055
- eISBN:
- 9781526109958
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719085055.003.0009
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology
Steven Feld and Virginia Ryan’s sound and visual art collaboration is a meditation on the forced movements, departures and returns of people and things as part of the slave trade and its legacy, ...
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Steven Feld and Virginia Ryan’s sound and visual art collaboration is a meditation on the forced movements, departures and returns of people and things as part of the slave trade and its legacy, evoked through a linked composition of the sonic materials found along the space of Ghanaian shoreline at Accra, at Pram Pram, Jamestown, Labadi, Anomabo, and Korlegonno. Their joint exhibition of sculptural paintings and ambient sound composition refigures the West African beach as a contact zone, as interacting ocean currents of natural and human-made materials referencing gold, slavery, displacements, forced motion, departure and return.Less
Steven Feld and Virginia Ryan’s sound and visual art collaboration is a meditation on the forced movements, departures and returns of people and things as part of the slave trade and its legacy, evoked through a linked composition of the sonic materials found along the space of Ghanaian shoreline at Accra, at Pram Pram, Jamestown, Labadi, Anomabo, and Korlegonno. Their joint exhibition of sculptural paintings and ambient sound composition refigures the West African beach as a contact zone, as interacting ocean currents of natural and human-made materials referencing gold, slavery, displacements, forced motion, departure and return.
Gregory W. Bush
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780813062648
- eISBN:
- 9780813051628
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813062648.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
The unique story and current state of public space in southern Florida are interwoven with the history of segregation. Virginia Key Beach provides a lens for examining the interaction of notions of ...
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The unique story and current state of public space in southern Florida are interwoven with the history of segregation. Virginia Key Beach provides a lens for examining the interaction of notions of space, race, and capitalism. The first legally recognized beach for African Americans in South Florida, it became an important place of community which nurtured further civil rights activism until African Americans achieved access to all beaches—after which many viewed Virginia Key Beach as symbolic of an oppressive past and ceased to patronize it. At the same time, white leaders responded to desegregation by decreasing attention to and funding for public spaces in general. In Miami, this interacted with America’s ever decreasing sense of place: a tourist economy with its culture of spectacle, government budgetary woes, and neoliberal policies to bring about a spreading pattern of privatization of public land and loss of green spaces—particularly on the waterfront. In recent decades however, local grassroots activists have found in this history common ground for unified action, as environmentalists and African Americans came together to maintain and revitalize public park space on Virginia Key. This book is about the power of previously lost voices to redefine and reclaim the piece of land at the center of this narrative. Recent developments illustrate the potential of new forms of civic engagement in public planning processes. As a place of fellowship, relaxation, and interaction with nature, this beach became a common ground of hope for a better future. Yet major challenges remain.Less
The unique story and current state of public space in southern Florida are interwoven with the history of segregation. Virginia Key Beach provides a lens for examining the interaction of notions of space, race, and capitalism. The first legally recognized beach for African Americans in South Florida, it became an important place of community which nurtured further civil rights activism until African Americans achieved access to all beaches—after which many viewed Virginia Key Beach as symbolic of an oppressive past and ceased to patronize it. At the same time, white leaders responded to desegregation by decreasing attention to and funding for public spaces in general. In Miami, this interacted with America’s ever decreasing sense of place: a tourist economy with its culture of spectacle, government budgetary woes, and neoliberal policies to bring about a spreading pattern of privatization of public land and loss of green spaces—particularly on the waterfront. In recent decades however, local grassroots activists have found in this history common ground for unified action, as environmentalists and African Americans came together to maintain and revitalize public park space on Virginia Key. This book is about the power of previously lost voices to redefine and reclaim the piece of land at the center of this narrative. Recent developments illustrate the potential of new forms of civic engagement in public planning processes. As a place of fellowship, relaxation, and interaction with nature, this beach became a common ground of hope for a better future. Yet major challenges remain.
Mark A. Snell
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780823231201
- eISBN:
- 9780823240791
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fso/9780823231201.003.0009
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter offers both a valuable overview of the United States Coast Guard's role in World War II as well as an in-depth examination of this often forgotten service in the ...
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This chapter offers both a valuable overview of the United States Coast Guard's role in World War II as well as an in-depth examination of this often forgotten service in the major amphibious operations of the war. Making extensive use of oral histories and memoirs, it takes the reader from the coast guardsman's early training to operations in Sicily and the Italian mainland, to raucous liberty in Gibraltar, and on to the deadly serious preparation in the months leading up to Normandy. The heart of the chapter focuses on the heretofore unexamined history of Flotilla ten, each of whose 36 LCIs (landing craft, infantry) carried a crew of 24 and as many as 188 troops in the assault on Omaha Beach, amid an ocean of lethal anti-tank mines, treacherous tides and currents, and German defensive fire.Less
This chapter offers both a valuable overview of the United States Coast Guard's role in World War II as well as an in-depth examination of this often forgotten service in the major amphibious operations of the war. Making extensive use of oral histories and memoirs, it takes the reader from the coast guardsman's early training to operations in Sicily and the Italian mainland, to raucous liberty in Gibraltar, and on to the deadly serious preparation in the months leading up to Normandy. The heart of the chapter focuses on the heretofore unexamined history of Flotilla ten, each of whose 36 LCIs (landing craft, infantry) carried a crew of 24 and as many as 188 troops in the assault on Omaha Beach, amid an ocean of lethal anti-tank mines, treacherous tides and currents, and German defensive fire.
Frederick J. Ruf
- Published in print:
- 1997
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195102635
- eISBN:
- 9780199853458
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195102635.003.0006
- Subject:
- Religion, Religion and Literature
When Plato recommends that poets be banished from his republic, it is the dramatic poets that he specifies. His principal charge that poetry is at a double remove from reality is based on the ...
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When Plato recommends that poets be banished from his republic, it is the dramatic poets that he specifies. His principal charge that poetry is at a double remove from reality is based on the representational nature of dramatic poetry, that the dramatic poet does not speak in his own voice (as does the lyric poet) but pretends to speak in another's. To Plato, the variety of voices in drama suggests (and threatens) the absence of harmony in the self. Stanley Hauerwas, Ronald Thiemann, and Alastair Macintyre seem to be Plato's counterparts today, but instead of urging the banishment of a literary genre, they recommend an alternative form for its usefulness in constructing a unified self, magisterial in its wise and calm possession of cohesion and intelligibility. This chapter examines the self modeled by the third of the traditional three genres, drama. In doing so, it proposes to take as an example of a drama a very unusual work, Robert Wilson's Einstein on the Beach. The chapter argues that Wilson presents the characteristic dramatic voice.Less
When Plato recommends that poets be banished from his republic, it is the dramatic poets that he specifies. His principal charge that poetry is at a double remove from reality is based on the representational nature of dramatic poetry, that the dramatic poet does not speak in his own voice (as does the lyric poet) but pretends to speak in another's. To Plato, the variety of voices in drama suggests (and threatens) the absence of harmony in the self. Stanley Hauerwas, Ronald Thiemann, and Alastair Macintyre seem to be Plato's counterparts today, but instead of urging the banishment of a literary genre, they recommend an alternative form for its usefulness in constructing a unified self, magisterial in its wise and calm possession of cohesion and intelligibility. This chapter examines the self modeled by the third of the traditional three genres, drama. In doing so, it proposes to take as an example of a drama a very unusual work, Robert Wilson's Einstein on the Beach. The chapter argues that Wilson presents the characteristic dramatic voice.
Steve Zeitlin
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- May 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781501702358
- eISBN:
- 9781501706370
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501702358.003.0008
- Subject:
- Literature, Folk Literature
In this chapter, the author recalls how his family would spend afternoons and evenings reading poems on the screened porch overlooking the sand dunes, the beach, and the sea in a rented house in ...
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In this chapter, the author recalls how his family would spend afternoons and evenings reading poems on the screened porch overlooking the sand dunes, the beach, and the sea in a rented house in Garden City, South Carolina. His father-in-law, Lucas, eagerly anticipates those times, bringing along his 101 Favorite Poems, published in 1929. But they all bring a few poems to the porch—even the children. At age ten their nephew Aidan Powers came equipped with a full set of Shel Silverstein's ingenious poetry. Masterpieces and ditties are treated with equal weight: poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, William Wordsworth, and Lord Byron are interspersed with children's poetry and nonsense verses. The evenings of poetry reading on the porch at the beach were so enjoyed by the family that they spawned poetry nights in the Dargan living room back in Darlington, South Carolina, on a weekly basis.Less
In this chapter, the author recalls how his family would spend afternoons and evenings reading poems on the screened porch overlooking the sand dunes, the beach, and the sea in a rented house in Garden City, South Carolina. His father-in-law, Lucas, eagerly anticipates those times, bringing along his 101 Favorite Poems, published in 1929. But they all bring a few poems to the porch—even the children. At age ten their nephew Aidan Powers came equipped with a full set of Shel Silverstein's ingenious poetry. Masterpieces and ditties are treated with equal weight: poems by Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, William Wordsworth, and Lord Byron are interspersed with children's poetry and nonsense verses. The evenings of poetry reading on the porch at the beach were so enjoyed by the family that they spawned poetry nights in the Dargan living room back in Darlington, South Carolina, on a weekly basis.
Dean DeFino
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- November 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780231167390
- eISBN:
- 9780231850544
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231167390.001.0001
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This book looks at the production and critical reception of Russ Meyer's film Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965). It places the film within the cultural history of the 1960s, looks at its ...
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This book looks at the production and critical reception of Russ Meyer's film Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965). It places the film within the cultural history of the 1960s, looks at its representations of gender and sexuality, and assesses the specific ways in which it meets the criteria of a cult film. The book describes Pussycat as an enigma and shows how, although it was a box-office failure when initially released on the grindhouse circuit, it has since been embraced by art-house audiences, and has also been referenced in countless films, television series, and songs. The book describes the film as a riot of styles and story clichés lifted from biker, juvenile delinquency, and beach party movies. It argues that Meyer's film has the coherence of a dream and the improvisatory daring of a jazz solo. The book highlights the fact that John Waters has called the film the greatest movie ever made, and that Quentin Tarantino has long promised to remake it and asks, “what draws Waters and Tarantino, and so many other cult fans, to Pussycat?”Less
This book looks at the production and critical reception of Russ Meyer's film Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965). It places the film within the cultural history of the 1960s, looks at its representations of gender and sexuality, and assesses the specific ways in which it meets the criteria of a cult film. The book describes Pussycat as an enigma and shows how, although it was a box-office failure when initially released on the grindhouse circuit, it has since been embraced by art-house audiences, and has also been referenced in countless films, television series, and songs. The book describes the film as a riot of styles and story clichés lifted from biker, juvenile delinquency, and beach party movies. It argues that Meyer's film has the coherence of a dream and the improvisatory daring of a jazz solo. The book highlights the fact that John Waters has called the film the greatest movie ever made, and that Quentin Tarantino has long promised to remake it and asks, “what draws Waters and Tarantino, and so many other cult fans, to Pussycat?”
Evan R. Ward
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813032290
- eISBN:
- 9780813038995
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813032290.003.0006
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Latin American Studies
The Puerto Rican government, through PRIDCO, was not only the first Latin political entity to develop a strategy for state-directed tourism development in the mid-1940s but also the most likely to ...
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The Puerto Rican government, through PRIDCO, was not only the first Latin political entity to develop a strategy for state-directed tourism development in the mid-1940s but also the most likely to involve American hotel companies in its projects. Laurance Rockefeller's decentralized Dorado Beach resort community, located some 25 miles to the west of San Juan and opened in 1958, represented the first Puerto Rican attempt to approach tourism development through a low-density approach. Nevertheless, in 1967 Rockefeller agreed to sell 80 percent of his Dorado Beach Resort to Eastern Airlines, along with a 40 percent stake in the RockResorts chain of decentralized, low-density hotels located in the continental United States, Hawaii, the Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico. For Eastern Airlines, under the leadership of Floyd Hall, Dorado Beach fit into the airline's plans to diversify revenue streams through tourism development in the Caribbean. RockResorts' choice of Eastern Airlines for continued development at Dorado Beach in the late 1960s and early 1970s would demonstrate the limits of tourism development when two partners possessed very different objectives.Less
The Puerto Rican government, through PRIDCO, was not only the first Latin political entity to develop a strategy for state-directed tourism development in the mid-1940s but also the most likely to involve American hotel companies in its projects. Laurance Rockefeller's decentralized Dorado Beach resort community, located some 25 miles to the west of San Juan and opened in 1958, represented the first Puerto Rican attempt to approach tourism development through a low-density approach. Nevertheless, in 1967 Rockefeller agreed to sell 80 percent of his Dorado Beach Resort to Eastern Airlines, along with a 40 percent stake in the RockResorts chain of decentralized, low-density hotels located in the continental United States, Hawaii, the Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico. For Eastern Airlines, under the leadership of Floyd Hall, Dorado Beach fit into the airline's plans to diversify revenue streams through tourism development in the Caribbean. RockResorts' choice of Eastern Airlines for continued development at Dorado Beach in the late 1960s and early 1970s would demonstrate the limits of tourism development when two partners possessed very different objectives.
Evan R. Ward
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813032290
- eISBN:
- 9780813038995
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813032290.003.0007
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Latin American Studies
Even as Laurance Rockefeller celebrated the opening of the Dorado Beach Hotel on December 2, 1958, he was already contemplating the expansion of the resort. Rockefeller initiated talks with Eastern ...
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Even as Laurance Rockefeller celebrated the opening of the Dorado Beach Hotel on December 2, 1958, he was already contemplating the expansion of the resort. Rockefeller initiated talks with Eastern Airlines, where he was a longtime stockholder, concerning Eastern's development of tourism in the Caribbean and the strategic role of the Dorado Beach Hotel in those plans. For Rockefeller, the proposed sale of 80 percent of the shares of Dorado Beach and a 40 percent stake of RockResorts promised an infusion of capital that would unburden RockResorts of sole financial responsibility for the enterprise and, more importantly, offer substantial assistance from Eastern to bring his dream of a second hotel, residential developments, and a new golf course to reality. By 1967, the RockResorts–PRIDCO development of Dorado Beach had elevated the resort and the surrounding community to one of hemispheric importance. As a result, other hotel operators, namely Hilton International, had opened hotels adjacent to the Dorado Beach Resort. Ultimately, the Cerromar Beach Hotel would be the central creative product of the Eastern–RockResorts relationship.Less
Even as Laurance Rockefeller celebrated the opening of the Dorado Beach Hotel on December 2, 1958, he was already contemplating the expansion of the resort. Rockefeller initiated talks with Eastern Airlines, where he was a longtime stockholder, concerning Eastern's development of tourism in the Caribbean and the strategic role of the Dorado Beach Hotel in those plans. For Rockefeller, the proposed sale of 80 percent of the shares of Dorado Beach and a 40 percent stake of RockResorts promised an infusion of capital that would unburden RockResorts of sole financial responsibility for the enterprise and, more importantly, offer substantial assistance from Eastern to bring his dream of a second hotel, residential developments, and a new golf course to reality. By 1967, the RockResorts–PRIDCO development of Dorado Beach had elevated the resort and the surrounding community to one of hemispheric importance. As a result, other hotel operators, namely Hilton International, had opened hotels adjacent to the Dorado Beach Resort. Ultimately, the Cerromar Beach Hotel would be the central creative product of the Eastern–RockResorts relationship.
Andrew W. Kahrl
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781469628721
- eISBN:
- 9781469628745
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469628721.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
The Land Was Ours tells the story of how African Americans acquired, developed, and struggled to hold onto property along southern coastlines over the course of the twentieth century. During the ...
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The Land Was Ours tells the story of how African Americans acquired, developed, and struggled to hold onto property along southern coastlines over the course of the twentieth century. During the segregated era, black-owned beaches and resorts proliferated across the coastal South. Black beaches not only provided black southerners places of leisure and entertainment; they also spawned a variety of commercial activity and considerable capital investment. The types of black beaches found across the South—from serene, religious retreats to bawdy, seaside stops on the “chitlin circuit,” and from exclusive havens for the black elite to public “colored-only” beaches for the masses—reflected the class and cultural diversity of black America. Their histories also shed new light on the spatial and seasonal dimensions of Jim Crow. During their heyday, black leisure enterprises withstood repeated acts of terror and constant harassment from police, public officials, and white neighbors. But the greatest challenge black beaches faced came after segregation ended and the value of coastal real estate skyrocketed. In painful, infuriating detail, Kahrl tells the story of how African Americans lost millions of acres of valuable land to white speculators and developers—through deceit, fraud, and other unethical but often legal actions. Instead of reaping the riches of the Sunbelt boom, black families and coastal communities became a source of riches for others.Less
The Land Was Ours tells the story of how African Americans acquired, developed, and struggled to hold onto property along southern coastlines over the course of the twentieth century. During the segregated era, black-owned beaches and resorts proliferated across the coastal South. Black beaches not only provided black southerners places of leisure and entertainment; they also spawned a variety of commercial activity and considerable capital investment. The types of black beaches found across the South—from serene, religious retreats to bawdy, seaside stops on the “chitlin circuit,” and from exclusive havens for the black elite to public “colored-only” beaches for the masses—reflected the class and cultural diversity of black America. Their histories also shed new light on the spatial and seasonal dimensions of Jim Crow. During their heyday, black leisure enterprises withstood repeated acts of terror and constant harassment from police, public officials, and white neighbors. But the greatest challenge black beaches faced came after segregation ended and the value of coastal real estate skyrocketed. In painful, infuriating detail, Kahrl tells the story of how African Americans lost millions of acres of valuable land to white speculators and developers—through deceit, fraud, and other unethical but often legal actions. Instead of reaping the riches of the Sunbelt boom, black families and coastal communities became a source of riches for others.
Maegan Parker Brooks and Davis W. Houck
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781604738223
- eISBN:
- 9781604738230
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781604738223.003.0019
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
In July 1972, Fannie Lou Hamer traveled to the Democratic National Convention in Miami Beach, Florida despite her deteriorating health. Hamer’s health took a turn for the worse in January of that ...
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In July 1972, Fannie Lou Hamer traveled to the Democratic National Convention in Miami Beach, Florida despite her deteriorating health. Hamer’s health took a turn for the worse in January of that year, when she collapsed from “nervous exhaustion” as she walked a picket line near her home. She convalesced over the next seven months. This chapter reproduced Hamer’s “speech” delivered at the 1972 Democratic National Convention in Miami Beach. It was actually a seconding speech for the nomination of Texas’s Frances Farenthold as vice presidential candidate.Less
In July 1972, Fannie Lou Hamer traveled to the Democratic National Convention in Miami Beach, Florida despite her deteriorating health. Hamer’s health took a turn for the worse in January of that year, when she collapsed from “nervous exhaustion” as she walked a picket line near her home. She convalesced over the next seven months. This chapter reproduced Hamer’s “speech” delivered at the 1972 Democratic National Convention in Miami Beach. It was actually a seconding speech for the nomination of Texas’s Frances Farenthold as vice presidential candidate.
