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Performing ‘Little Egypt’:Ashea Wabe and the American Harem Scenario
No full textThe belly dancer Ashea Wabe reached national fame as ‘Little Egypt’ in her provocative performances on and off stage in the late nineteenth century. I argue that her strategic embodiment of colonial harem fantasies was integral to the development of an American harem scenario that merges orientalist fantasies with the specter of U.S. slavery.The belly dancer Ashea Wabe reached national fame as ‘Little Egypt’ in her provocative performances on and off stage in the late nineteenth century. I argue that her strategic embodiment of colonial harem fantasies was integral to the development of an American harem scenario that merges orientalist fantasies with the specter of U.S. slavery
“Rowing for Palestine,” Performing the Other: Suheir Hammad, Mark Gerban and Multiple Consciousness
Get PDFOriginally published in Alfred Hornung and Martina Kohl’s Arab American Literature and Culture (Universitätsverlag Winter, 2012), Bauridl’s essay offers a full discussion of a number of theoretical constructions regarding identity. In closely reading the words of both Hammad and Gerban, Bauridl challenges the simpler dualisms of bifurcated, Du Boisian approaches to identity, interpreting the complex reality of the “trans” in transnational identity, which seems more appropriately mobile and fluid and permeable, as are the experiences of “multiple consciousness” of those who try not to side with any specific racialized or politicized aspect of identity but to creatively negotiate all of them.</p
»what remains?«: Erinnerungs-Schichten: Die KZ-Gedenkstätte Flossenbürg als transnationaler Raum
No full textAm 23. April 1945 erreichten Soldaten der US-Armee das ländlich gelegene Konzentrationslager Flossenbürg in der nördlichen Oberpfalz unweit des späteren Eisernen Vorhangs. Dort fanden sie noch ca. 1500 Häftlinge vor – ungefähr so viele, wie es am Ende des Gründungsjahres des Konzentrationslagers 1938 waren. Zum Zeitpunkt der Befreiung des Hauptlagers waren zahllose andere Häftlinge noch auf Todesmärschen unterwegs. Die letzten von ihnen sollten erst am 8. Mai von den amerikanischen Truppen eingeholt und befreit werden. Spätestens zwischen dem 23. April und dem 8. Mai 1945 wird in Flossenbürg in besonderer Weise deutlich, dass zum Ende des Nazi-Regimes das Gleichzeitige ungleichzeitig und das Ende des Lagersystems kein überall gleichzeitig erfolgendes Ereignis, sondern ein komplexer Prozess war. Spätestens am 23. April 1945 beginnt in Flossenbürg die Frage nach der Erinnerung, oder vielmehr die Frage nach den Erinnerungen der Menschen aus diversen Nationen und Kulturen – die Frage nach den Erinnerungen der Überlebenden, der Familien der Überlebenden und der Nicht-Überlebenden, der Täter*innen, der Mitläufer*innen, der Daneben-Stehenden, der Alliierten – und die Frage nach dem Umgang mit den Erinnerungen an all diese. Spätestens ab dem 23. April 1945 wird Flossenbürg zu einem transnationalen Palimpsest – zu einem Ort, auf den sich bis heute visuell und architektonisch erkennbar immerfort neue Schichten der Nutzung und Deutung durch unterschiedliche Menschen und unterschiedliche Nationen gelegt haben und um den sich immerfort multiple Erinnerungen unterschiedlicher Menschen aus unterschiedlichen Nationen und Kulturen ranken. Dieser Artikel beleuchtet den Erinnerungsort Flossenbürg durch die Linse transnationaler Forschungsansätze zu kulturellen, sozialen und politischen Räumen und aus der Perspektive transnationaler Erinnerungsforschung, wie sie auch in der Regensburger Amerikanistik betrieben werden.On April 23, 1945, US troops arrived at the Flossenbuerg concentration camp—a scene of horror located in the rural region of the Upper Palatinate and not far from the later Iron Curtain. Shortly before the arrival of the US soldiers, the Nazi perpetrators had initiated attempts at hiding and disguising their misanthropic deeds. On April 23, 1945, thousands of prisoners, forced to make their way towards supposedly still functioning camps, were still suffering along the routes of death marches and train transports throughout the region. April 23, 1945, marks the beginning of remembrance and commemoration. At a site characterized by the co-presence of diverse cultures and nations—ranging from its use as a concentration camp from 1938 to 1945, to the moment of liberation, to the contemporary memorial site—memory is dynamic, diverse, and a matter of negotiation and at times contestation. Likewise, post-1945 concepts for re-using and re-interpreting the space of the former concentration camp have been plural and changing. Nowadays, Flossenbuerg can be defined as a transnational palimpsest—a concept that is used to describe spaces that visibly bear the traces of their diverse past uses and diverse cultural and national human presences. Flossenbuerg is not just a place that is remembered, but its own material appearance incorporates its multiple pasts and interpretations since 1945. This article explores the palimpsestic and transnational site of memory through the lens of concepts of transnational spaces and transnational memory/ies as they have been developed and pursued in Regensburg American Studies
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
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