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La tradition orale africaine comme outil de plaidoyer : l’écocritique dans Ijala d’Ogundare Foyanmu
No full textLes poètes africains continuent à démontrer leur engagement social de diverses manières en créant des œuvres qui conscientisent les gens dans leur société. Bien que l'écocritique soit une théorie relativement nouvelle, ces poètes ont été préoccupés de divers problèmes qui affectent l’environnement afin de le protéger et préserver. Ijala, en tant que poésie orale popularisée par les chasseurs locaux chez les Yorubas de l’ouest du Nigeria, a été étudié par différents chercheurs de diverses perspectives. Cependant, sa pertinence écologique n'a pas bien été étudiée, aussi et plus important, ce genre n’a pas figuré dans le domaine d’études francophones. C'est dans cette optique que cet article aborde une lecture écocritique d’Ijala d’Ogundare Foyanmu. L’article vise à établir la conscience environnementale dans l’œuvre de ce poète d’origine yoruba. En s’appuyant sur le chant intitulé Omiyale, l’article révèle comment Foyanmu conseille le peuple à s'abstenir de sous-estimer avec mépris l'effet du danger de l'eau. L’article établit qu’Ijala, en tant que poème oral chez le Yoruba, ne se limite pas à la chasse ou à la vie des chasseurs. Il est également un moyen de plaidoyer et est utilisé pour traiter d’autres questions socio-politiques et économiques. Les poètes africains continuent à démontrer leur engagement social de diverses manières en créant des œuvres qui conscientisent les gens dans leur société. Bien que l'écocritique soit une théorie relativement nouvelle, ces poètes ont été préoccupés de divers problèmes qui affectent l’environnement afin de le protéger et préserver. Ijala, en tant que poésie orale popularisée par les chasseurs locaux chez les Yorubas de l’ouest du Nigeria, a été étudié par différents chercheurs de diverses perspectives. Cependant, sa pertinence écologique n'a pas bien été étudiée, aussi et plus important, ce genre n’a pas figuré dans le domaine d’études francophones. C'est dans cette optique que cet article aborde une lecture écocritique d’Ijala d’Ogundare Foyanmu. L’article vise à établir la conscience environnementale dans l’œuvre de ce poète d’origine yoruba. En s’appuyant sur le chant intitulé Omiyale, l’article révèle comment Foyanmu conseille le peuple à s'abstenir de sous-estimer avec mépris l'effet du danger de l'eau. L’article établit qu’Ijala, en tant que poème oral chez le Yoruba, ne se limite pas à la chasse ou à la vie des chasseurs. Il est également un moyen de plaidoyer et est utilisé pour traiter d’autres questions socio-politiques et économiques.  
The Mediterranean Sea as a Utopian and Dystopian Space in Tahar Ben Jelloun’s 'Partir'
No full textThe Mediterranean cultural productions have enormously increased in recent years, mediated through fiction and non-fiction, cinematography and documentaries, and many other artistic forms. Consequently, the Mediterranean Sea has been subjected to multifaceted critical views and multidisciplinary discourses. Though different studies have demonstrated the discursive potentials and possibilities of the Sea, the relationship of the Mediterranean with Utopia, Utopianism and migration has not been given much critical attention it deserves in literary studies. This study problematizes the ambivalent character of the Sea as a utopia and dystopian space because it presents illusions of reality as it projects the dreamed Spanish landscape to be far and near. It employs Ashcroft’s Postcolonial Utopianism to demonstrate how the Mediterranean generates a discourse of im/possibility premised on the transformative conceptions of future utopia through the agency of postcolonial memory in Tahar Ben Jelloun’s Partir. The novel illustrates the anxieties of journeys that are provoked through the proximity of Morocco to Spain. This study discovers that the daily multiple gazes of potential Moroccan travelers at the Sea demonstrate the relationship between memory and conceived future in the text. The gazes constitute the catalyzing processes of the perception, perfection, and production of the postcolonial hope that inspires the adventure into terra incognito. The amalgamation of individual hopes results in the collective congestion of boats that transforms the Mediterranean Sea from a “cape of good hope” to a “cemetery of drowned bodies”. The study concludes that Ben Jelloun’s text reflects the author’s artistic ideology and his portrayal of the Mediterranean Sea as a key figure in the scramble for Europe through the waterways since the presence of the Sea reinforces the dichotomy between Africa and Europe
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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