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Amitav Ghosh in interview with Neluka Silva and Alex Tickell
No full textNeluka Silva: Amitav Ghosh, you are a novelist and you also write journalistic pieces on travel. in what ways are your travel writing and fiction linked? Am1tav Ghosh: It's hard to say. I don't think of my journalistic writing as 'travel wnhng' as such; for me, travelling is always in some way connected with my fictional work. It's a very close link, I would say
Millennium’s Children. New trends in South-Asian Postmillennial Anglophone Literature
No full textThe South-Asian literary scene, after the breakthrough of the Indian postcolonial novel, is now in its complex entirety a space of extremely lively and variegated narrative production. After the groundbreaking sweep of the 80s and 90s with Rushdie, Roy, Seth, Mistry to set the model, in the third millennium a vast train of authors continue to experiment with a multifarious variety of trends, genres, forms and voices. A new generation of writers chart out a vibrant and energetic literary landscape in which the novelistic and other modes, such as the graphic novel, the autobiography or the diary, question changing notions of authorship and interrogate the role of English in creating reading communities across regional borders. Wishing to contribute to a reflection on the expressive possibilities of narrative prose in English in the 21st century, the editors invited contributors to explore new literary beginnings, foreground subjects, styles and genres, examine the devices preferred by the children of the new Millennium, those heirs of Rushdie’s 1981 novel required to adapt to a particularly challenging contemporary scene. One specific goal was indeed to try to delineate new literary strategies in dealing with a socio-cultural landscape particularly complicated by globalisation. The contributions deal quite obviously with a variety of different issues but have offered also the possibility to infer some lines of possible convergence and organising notions. Thus the articles have been grouped under three headed sections conceived as pertinent to themes roughly regarding: 1) the emerging of a South Asian geo-literary dimension; 2) the updating of diaspora literature; 3) the specific renovation and expansion of the Indian contemporary literary scene
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
An Interview with Manju Kapur
No full textIn this interview with Alex Tickell the acclaimed Indian author Manju Kapur talks about her fiction and her growth as a writer. Novels discussed include Difficult Daughters, A Married Woman, Home, The Immigrant and Custody. Kapur reflects on the role of women in the families she depicts, the treatment of history and political change in her works, and the reception of her books in India and internationally. She also recalls her early development as a novelist and comments on her approach to the craft of writing
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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New Literatures [India]
No full textThis chapter has five sections: 1. Australia; 2. Canada; 3. The Caribbean; 4. India; 5. New Zealand and the South Pacific. Section 1 is by Leigh Dale and Chris Tiffin; section 2 is by Richard Lane; section 3 is by Chester St. H. Mills; section 4 is by Alex Tickell; section 5 is by Nelson Wattie
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