Hold Fast
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18972201 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sally Pirie (0000-0001-9005-7534, University of Massachusetts Amherst), Sally Campbell Galman (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 7-22 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qualitative Inquiry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1077-8004 • E-ISSN: 1552-7565 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/10778004211002764 |
| OpenAlex | W4247517100 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 10 |
In the world of maritime lore and practice, tattoos were both commemorative and magical. Sailors frequently tattooed the words H-OL- D F-A-S-T onto the skin above each knuckle in the hopes of strengthening their grasp on the ship’s rigging. It gave sailors an edge at saving their own lives when the winds would howl and the ship tossed wildly on the waves, and they must hold fast or be thrown into the dark cold sea. This illustrated autoethnographic work will draw on the metaphor of the ship in transit, the slippery rigging, storied magic and the dangers of the chasm below, to interrogate the idea of the academy as literal and figurative home for transnational academics. In it, I will combine words and pictures to tell two stories of being. The piece concludes with problematizing the notion of “home” as a desirable construct in the context of the academy
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Linguistics · Literal and figurative language · Literature · Metaphor · Sociology · Visual arts · Asian American and Pacific Histories · Computer Science · History · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |