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Translation, Weather, and Erasure in Bhanu Kapil’s Schizophrene
Get PDFFor Bhanu Kapil, the drafting process of writing involves the translation of non-linguistic realities into storytelling, the nature of which must leave room for the performative experience that shapes writing. In Schizophrene (2011), Kapil engaged in adventitious composition processes when she sealed her manuscript in a Ziploc bag and threw it in the garden to spend months outdoors in the Colorado winter. The text, full of gaps created by the erased parts of the “winterized” manuscript, documents schizophrenia in diasporic Indian and Pakistani communities. The decaying process of the book that created a void in her writing also impacts the narrative’s own exploration of white space, gaps, syntactic experimentation, and fragmentation. These elements attempt to translate the experience of Kapil’s family and the effect of colonization on immigrants. The initial “failed” document attests to the impossibility of telling the story of women’s inter-generational trauma inherited from postcolonial and patriarchal violence. Translating these elements into a new form of narration relies on the refusal to reproduce old narrative patterns inherited from Western and patriarchal modes of writing. Instead, resisting traditional plot structures, Kapil pays close attention to repetition and association: they echo, verbally, the “light touch,” which “regular and impersonally repeated” is healing, “for non-white subjects (schizophrenics) as anti-psychotic medication” (71). Consequently, this mode of writing proposes yet another level of translation, one that focuses on the information that comes from bodies and its transfer into the physical form of texts. While Schizophrene is not literally a translation, it involves a multi-layered engagement of what can be translated from the trauma of the multigenerational oppression of women
“Become What You Are.” The Cultural and Gender Crisis in Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra
No full textAntony and Cleopatra opposes two worlds. Within these two worlds, Caesar represents Rome—its masculine drive for strength and coherence—and Cleopatra stands for Egypt, functioning as a synecdoche for her country. At first, it seems that the play focuses on two spokespersons for two antithetic countries and cultures. Shakespeare’s play revolves around the identity-based politics that “regulat[es] and reif[ies…] [binary] gender relations”. However, the audience progressively realizes that the R..
Chaos and Order in Joseph McElroy’s Lookout Cartridge
No full textInfluencé par les théories du chaos et des systèmes, McElroy crée dans Lookout Cartridge (1974) un monde à la fois désorganisé et extrêmement organisé, ce qui encourage le lecteur à reconsidérer le rôle du désordre qui compose et décompose la narration ainsi que les méthodes d’interprétation du roman. L’organisation complexe du texte invite le lecteur à intervenir dans le développement de la narration, tout comme dans un système ouvert, l’incitant ainsi à reformuler ses stratégies de lecture.In Lookout Cartridge (1974), McElroy insists that we consider language as a system of disorderly connections. Influenced by chaos and system theories, McElroy creates a world both disorderly and highly organized, which forces us to ponder how and why disorder both forms and challenges the narration and our interpretive methodologies. Such chaotic reading processes allow us to reconsider the possibilities of linguistically organized systems and contemplate the implications of the relationship between open systems and literature
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
L'écriture du corps (une érotique du langage dans la fiction contemporaine américaine)
No full text"L'écriture du corps : une érotique du langage dans la fiction contemporaine américaine" se concentre sur quatre romans américains récents : Plus (1977) de Joseph McElroy, AVA (1993) de Carole Maso, DICTEE (1982) de Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, et VAS (2002) de Steve Tomasula. Plus, AVA, DICTEE et VAS, de par l'usage non-conforme qu'ils font des structures linguistiques, sont à l'origine d'un questionnement sur l'institution d'un "moi" stable, questionnement qui se trouve à la source même de l'expérience érotique. Ces textes postmodernes, par leur caractère excessif, visent à orchestrer la multiplication des sens du langage, ce qui force le lecteur à atteindre une compréhension des textes qui aille au-delà de leur contenu. En effet, la perte de cohérence mène à une perte du contrôle de soi et à une approche de la matérialité du texte, troublant ainsi les oppositions entre sujet et objet. Ceci permet à l'oeil de devenir un organe du toucher et d'établir ainsi un parallèle entre le toucher et le regard érotique. Cette expérience sensuelle remet en cause la suprématie patriarcale car elle révèle que les modèles patriarcaux censurent le corps dans les usages linguistiques. Ainsi, les fictions contemporaines américaines révèlent les idéologies sous-jacentes aux formations narratives et soulignent la valeur politique des stratégies esthétiques postmodernes. Notre étude élabore donc une explication de la politique féministe des textes postmodernes qui nous pousse à repenser le corps dans l'écriture, la lecture et la pensée.This study proposes a new interpretive apparatus to examine readers'experience of sensuality in their engagement with the language of fiction. Postmodern texts explore literature's ability to signify and materialize experiences, mediating the physical conditions of everyday existence with the physical conditions of reading and writing. In this exploration, avant-garde writers disrupt traditional signifying techniques, emphasizing the materiality of the medium of their texts - print, sound, page, orthography, syntax, etc. This disruption provokes an erotic examination of language and encourages a bodily relationship with the textual medium. I investigate this mode of writing and its political consequences in Joseph McElroy's Plus (1977), Carol Maso's AVA (1993), Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's DICTEE (1982), and Steve Tomasula and Stephen Farrell's VAS (2002), as they produce examples of both thematic and structural erotics through visual experiments, metaphors, or allegorical representations of theoretical connections between pleasure and language. Informed by feminist theorists Julia Kristeva and Hélène Cixous, film critic Laura Marks, philosopher Georges Bataille, art historian Georges Didi-Huberman, and the writings on avant-garde literature by Roland Barthes, this study clarifies American experimental literature's ability to counterbalance and demystify contemporary rhetorical apparatuses that fosters political agendas. This project thus repositions postmodern texts as feminist practices that call for a political reevaluation of social systems which confine fictional examinations of the body, and their interpretations, to patriarchal paradigms.ORLEANS-BU Lettres (452342103) / SudocSudocFranceF
Divergent Trajectories: Interviews with Innovative Fiction Writers
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