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De sombras y umbrales: ansiedad geográfica en Boca de lobo
No full textThis work examines the relationship between geography, the body, memory and aesthetics in the representation of urban poverty and the global economic processes of neoliberalism in the novel Boca de lobo (2000) by Argentine author Sergio Chejfec
Response to \u22Money is in the Eye of the Beholder\u22
No full textBeginning with the editor\u27s discussion of an episode of Project Runway and its relationship to contemporary theories of affect in art, my response to Todd Cronan\u27s piece questions his application of affect theory in the particular instance of the episode he discusses and then draws it together with a discussion of the novel Baroni: A Journey, by Argentine author Sergio Chejfec, to explore critiques of the economic logic of neoliberalism through aesthetic objects
Visualizing a State of Debt: Sergio Chejfec’s Art of Landscapes and Loans
No full textThis paper examines two novels by the Argentine author Sergio Chejfec: Boca de lobo (2000) and La experiencia dramática (2012). By examining their relationship to Jorge Luis Borges\u27 short story \u22El Zahir,\u22 I examine the ways in which the structures and obligations of loans and debt (or contemporary forms of abstract money more generally) are materialized into understandable and interpretable aesthetic forms in the novel. I suggest that Chejfec\u27s interest in literary form and economic form in these novels present key complications to the concept of posthegemony as it is elaborated by John Beasley-Murray
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
Shantytown Vistas and Immigrant Voices: Bernardo Verbitsky, Guaraní Language and the Art of Overcoming Peronism
No full textThis was an invited presentation at a conference of Indiana professors who specialize in research on Latin America. The conference was hosted by the Minority Languages and Literature program at Indiana University, Bloomington. I gave a version of what was then a forthcoming paper on Bernardo Verbitsky\u27s novel Villa Miseria también es América. The entire essay can be read at the following link: http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0\u26type=summary\u26url=/journals/revista_de_estudios_hispanicos/v047/47.2.buttes.htm
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
Shantytown Vistas and Immigrant Voices: Bernardo Verbitsky, Kenneth Kemble and the Art of Overcoming Peronism
No full textEste ensayo propone leer Villa Miseria también es América (1957) de Bernardo Verbitsky como una propuesta para superar el binario político-afectivo de la revolución anti-peronista de la década del 1950. En primer lugar, se argumenta que el personaje José Rodríguez, estudiante de izquierda torturado por el régimen peronista, puede entenderse como un retrato del artista comprometido. Luego, se establecen conexiones entre los intereses estéticos de este personaje y los del movimiento de vanguardia informalista, haciendo hincapié en la serie de collages Paisajes suburbanos (1958–61) de Kenneth Kemble. Al comparar los materiales que componen los paisajes villeros que produce Kemble y los materiales que le interesan al personaje, el ensayo afirma que Verbitsky privilegia los nuevos elementos culturales producidos en la villa. Estos elementos se producen mediante las interacciones fragmentadas entre una comunidad de inmigrantes paraguayos, hablantes del guaraní, y los migrantes argentinos hispanohablantes. La presentación de estos nuevos materiales obliga a que los espectadores y los lectores superen su tendencia a entender las villas miseria y los sectores populares dentro del “régimen emocional” del (anti)peronismo y que interpreten en cambio esas mismas realidades mediante nuevas categorías culturales que emergen de la nueva economía global de la Guerra Fría
Tag, That’s It!: Using Blogs for Creative Research, Applied Critical Thinking and Better Student Writing
Get PDFIn this presentation and discussion, I presented the way I use in my teaching what has come to be called \u22folksonomy.\u22 That is, I explain how my students categorize short pieces of writing with \u22tags\u22 or labels that they assign when they post their writing assignments to a class blog. Students then re-use their tags and their classmates\u27 tags to find new topics to develop for the next assignment. The motivation behind this technique is three-fold:
1. Getting students excited about the process of researching, writing and re-writing (increasing student \u22buy-in\u22 on the assignments)
2. Expanding the frame of the course by creating a space in which students can apply the concepts studied in the course to contexts outside the course in order to present them to the class.
3. The \u22nose-to-tail\u22 theory: discovering what bits of student knowledge are going to waste in my classroom and finding ways of recovering that to redeploy for increased student knowledge and better outcomes
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