the quint : an interdisciplinary quarterly from the north 1 the quint volume seven issue one an interdisciplinary quarterly from contents the north advisory board ISSN 1920-1028 EDITORIAL Dr. Keith Batterbe University of Turku e Story of analthur by Amanda and Lucy Antsanen...........................................................6 Dr. Lynn Ecchevarria Yukon College Christmas Photo by Anne Jevne...............................................................................................12 the quint welcomes submissions. See our guidelines e American South as Post-Colonial Society by Jeerson Fortner...........................................13 Dr. Susan Gold or contact us at: University of Windsor Jersy Shores by James A. Wren................................................................................................ .30 the quint Christmas Photo by Anne Jevne................................................................................................32 Dr. Didi Hutchens University College of the North University of Alaska (Anchorage) Space of One's Own: e Connement of Articial Spaces in Edith Wharton's Summer and P.O. Box 3000 Willa Cather's e Professor's House by Sarah Forest George...................................................33 The Pas, Manitoba Dr. Sherry Peden Canada R9A 1K7 'Mounting His High Tower': e Detective as a Fuction of Narrataive in Bleak House by Erica University College of the North McCrystal...............................................................................................................................53 We cannot be held responsible for unsolicited material Dear J. Kim by James A. Wren..............……..........................................................................80 Joan Didion's California: Literary Representations of History, Melancholy and Transgression editors by Katarzyna Nowak-McNeice................................................................................................82 John Butler Christmas Photo by Anne Jevne ............................................................................................100 Sue Matheson Landscape, Character, and Love in ree Classic Westerns by D.B. Jones..............................101 production "La Marie" 1950 by James A. Wren.........................................................................................119 Sue Matheson cover photo: Wilfred Ruttkowski "Ladies and Gentlemen, I Wouldn't Fool You For e World: Forgery, Authentication and e Art Instinct by Amanda Denman..............................................................................................................121 A quarterly journal, the quint is housed in the English Program of Faculty of Arts, Business and Christmas Photo by Anne Jevne..............................................................................................139 Science at the University of the North. e encouragement and support of this project by the Vice President of the University College of the North is deeply appreciated. Copyright 2014 © the quint for the contributors. No part of this publication may be reproduced. 2 Vol. 7.1 (December 2014) the quint : an interdisciplinary quarterly from the north 3 EDITORIAL William Styron's Dubious Memoir: Sophie and Styron's Sophie's Choice by George Steven Swan.....................................................................................................................................140 It is a wonderfully warm Christmas this year in northern Manitoba, making the holiday rush an unusually easy aair. ere are no frozen noses, square tires, and chilly ngers in the dashing in and out of stores. When it started snowing this morning, I cheered. New fallen snow on Christmas morning is a glorious thing to behold--when the weather is only 5 degrees below. At the quint, now seven years old and in its twenty-fth issue, we are celebrating this issue by oering a Christmas BOOK REVIEWS package of papers and poems that showcase the diversity of our writers' interests. We are particularly honored that Lucy Antsanen, an aboriginal storyteller, has shared the story of analthur with Amanda Antsanen, an Aboriginal and Northern Studies major at the University College of the North. In this Zhong Lihe and his valuable his valuable vignettes by John Butler.......... .............................176 quint you will nd topics that are concerned with postcolonialism, architectural spaces in literature, Charles Dickens' detective ction, Joan Didion's California, treatments of the landscape in Western More on the Bard that's well worth reading by John Butler..................................................179 lms, questions raised by forgery and authenticity, and the dubious nature of memoir. Changing karma by John Butler...........................................................................................183 In “e American South as Post-Colonial Society" Jeerson Fortner examines the similarities found in South Africa's and the American South's social structures. en, investigating the use of Froug's Hollywood by Sue Matheson....................................................................................186 space as a means of connement, Sarah Forest George in “Space of One's Own: e Connement of Articial Spaces in Edith Wharton's Summer and Willa Cather's e Professor's House," examines the nature of family ties and bonding in works by Edith Wharton and Willa Cather. "'Mounting His High Tower': e Detective as a Fuction of Narrataive in Bleak House" is an engaging fascination of Charles Dickens' sleuth, Bucket, as a narrative function by Erica McCrystal Next, Katarzyna CONTRIBUTORS................................................................................................................189 Nowak-McNeice's "Joan Didion's California: Literary Representations of History, Melancholy and Transgression" thoughtfully explores Californian identity. D.B. Jones's engaging close readings in " Landscape, Character, and Love in ree Classic Westerns,"oer new insights into the relationships CALL FOR PAPERS..............................................................................................................192 between landscape and the American Character in Western lm. Amanda Denman's"Ladies and Gentlemen, I Wouldn't Fool You For e World: Forgery, Authentication and e Art Instinct" takes SUBMISSION......................................................................................................................192 us into the fascinating world of aesthetics, intention and forgery in the art world. Finally, we are GUIDELINES.......................................................................................................................192 honoured to welcome George Steven Swan back to the quint. A playful and penetrating discussion of William Styron's manipulation of fact and ction, " William Styron's Dubious Memoir: Sophie and Styron's Sophie's Choice" is, at times, a wonderful Derridean exercise in authorial slippage. the quint welcomes James A. Wren and his powerful, versatile verse to the journal. Anne Jevene has provided a sampling of Christmas photos that may make you think again about the nature of your tree in the living room. And we are proud to display Wilfred Ruttkowski's sophisticated treatment of a Christmas day in northern Europe on our cover. Here’s to stimulating reading and thoughtful poetry by the re this holiday! At quint, we are all looking forward to warm and peaceful Christmas day and wish you and yours all the best in the coming year. the quint will be back in March with more oerings just in time for Spring. Until then, Merry Christmas and may the Northern Lights be always be dancing over your home. Sue Matheson Co-Editor 4 Vol. 7.1 (December 2014) the quint : an interdisciplinary quarterly from the north 5 era of 1875. ey told me I have to research and nd three sources before I write about her—and if there is no sources I could not write about it…I really wanted to write about On Sunday, her and I found three sources and I started to write about her. analthur was a young November 9, 2014, Amanda teenager, they said she was 14 or 17 and some said she was 20. Long time ago in those Antsanen, majoring in days First Nations did not write down birth dates of a child like European did, so they Aboriginal and Northern did not know the actual age of her, but she was a teenager. Studies at the University College of the North, Amanda: Where was analthur from? interviewed Lucy Antsanen, Lucy: e researchers say that analthur is from somewhere in Manitoba, but long a Northern story-teller and time ago people did not name lands, and First Nations used to live everywhere. Dene an expert on the subject people used to live up north now where it is called Nunavut and Baker Lake and also of analthur, the Dene Lucy Antsanen here in Manitoba. Where the Cree people kidnapped her was around Manitoba. heroine who brought Dene and Cree people together during the Amanda: Why did they kidnap her? time of the Fur Trade. Here, Lucy shares the story of analthur with Amanda and Lucy: Long time ago, people used to get into battles…ey said that when Dene and the quint... Cree people were ghting, the Dene people did not leave any survivors, but the Cree The Story of Thanalthur people would capture some Dene women. analthur’s relatives where all killed and she was the only survivor. When a Dene person tells this story, they said there were no relative with her, but the research claim she was with one of her relative. So, all her relatives were