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ATV Handlebar Impalement of the Upper Extremity: A Not So Humerus Case Report
No full textAll-terrain vehicle (ATV) ownership in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada has been increasing over the past two decades, likely owing in part to the province’s predominantly rural geography. As such, accidents while operating these recreational vehicles have becoming increasingly common and are frequent presentations to rural emergency departments. Our case documents a healthy 59-year-old female who sustained a significant upper extremity penetrating injury sustained while operating a recreational ATV with important consideration for resource utilization and rural management pathways
Reimagining Identities: Language, Form and Resistance in Miyah Poetry from Assam
No full textMiyah Poetry stands out as one of the most popular emancipatory poetic movements in Modern India. Providing a powerful response to the humanitarian and identity crises, fuelled by the majoritarian politics in Assam, the poetic movement attempts to understand and address the pressing issues, posed by the overwhelming ethno-linguistic conflict in the state and its various serious implications in the form of forced eviction, displacement, and 'doubtful' citizenship. Rooted in the age-old conflict between the East Bengal (now Bangladesh) immigrants and the Assamese indigenes, the poetic movement presents a nuanced and persuasive reevaluation of the migrant experiences through its experimental usage of forms, unique modes of expression, and unconventional linguistic structures. And, in doing so, it challenges the preconceived notions, disrupts the established narratives, and unveils the layers of complexities lying beneath the lived reality of the Miyahs, the peasant migrant community, who migrated from East Bengal (now Bangladesh) to the Indian state of Assam during the British Raj in India. Similar to many Modernist and Postmodernist writers who broke free from old forms and techniques and abandoned traditional rhyme schemes to write in free verse, the Miyah poets use language, form, and words to bring into light different modes of representation and resistance shown by the migrant community from time to time. Challenging the dominant grand narratives of Assam, the poets put forth the voices of the marginalised ‘other’ and create a sense of increased visibility and individualism for those who were hitherto unseen and unheard. Their poetry celebrates the fragmented, subaltern imaginings (for example, by experimenting with words like char-chapori, Miyah or the use of metonymy like lungi that were originally directed as slang to the Muslim peasant migrants in Assam)
Wearing My Ancestors: At the Crossroads of Genre
No full textFormerly presented by a new mother-in-law to a young bride after her wedding, the Transylvanian Saxon Haube, or embroidered velvet costume hood or bonnet, from Nösnerland in northern Transylvania appears on the surface to be folk costume, but its intersecting elements of folk art, rite of passage, and even folk belief prove that one category is not sufficient to understand the significance of this example of folklore text as I use it in the present. I apply Alan Dundes’ concept of “Text, Texture, and Context” (1980) while examining the Haube I own, possible methods of its construction and the material from which it is made. I use autoethnography to extract the messages I portray when wearing it in comparison to what is communicated through variants on display. The Haube is no longer worn by many married women in Canada, yet through examination of the one that was passed on to me after my wedding, I study the nuances of wearing, in comparison to displaying, this piece of folk clothing in order to discuss how folklorists might begin to categorize it. Finally, I consider how I transpose the personal significance of a tradition that was not designed for contemporary use through present-day donning and display, from its use in Transylvania to itsshowcase in Canada today
