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Polymorphic Island Intimacies: The Fluid Queeribbean Quotidian in Anglophone Caribbean Multi-Island Nation-States
No full textThis project intervenes in the fields of Caribbean studies, queer theory, gender and sexuality studies, and feminist cultural studies. Divided into four chapters, the project examines the interconnections between Caribbean (im)material cultures of fluidity and the politics of quotidian island life. Through an interrogation of three conceptual frameworks: (i) the Queeribbean quotidian, (ii) fluidity, and (iii) ‘the polymorphic’ multi-island nation, the first chapter argues that fluidity generates multiple ideological paradoxes which prove useful in the (re)construction of more equitable island societies in matters of freedom and bodily autonomy. In the second chapter, close readings of Harold Sonny Ladoo’s Yesterdays (1974) and Clem Maharaj’s The Dispossessed (1992), reveal ongoing and generative tensions between rurality, queerness, and post-indenture Indo-Caribbean life in Trinidad and Tobago. Quotidian rural life productively incorporates fluidity into the making of early-twentieth century, hetero-monogamous Indo-Caribbean lifeworlds. The third chapter offers close readings of Jamaica Kincaid’s Annie John (1985) and My Brother (1997), in addition to select contributions by emerging Caribbean writers in the online journal Intersect (2020), to demonstrate that fluid, Afro-Queeribbean narratives reveal an interconnected epistemology of the self and the multi-island nation in late-twentieth, early-twenty-first century Antigua and Barbuda. The fourth and final chapter is primarily occupied with the public-facing writings of the queer Vincentian author and scholar, Professor H. Nigel Thomas. Following Thomas’s debut novel Spirits in the Dark (1993), a distinct record of the queer Vincentian quotidian is tied to the local print media culture in the early 21st century. I piece together this record, and by extension the public presence of ideas and practices concerning queerness and fluidity, by close reading three decades of exchanges in Searchlight, The News, and The Vincentian newspapers.DissertationDoctor of Philosophy (PhD)What are the connections and overlaps between queerness, sexual fluidity, and everyday Caribbean life? This dissertation attempts to engage with this question by analyzing accounts of queer and sexually fluid experiences in select works of anglophone Caribbean literature. By doing this, the author demonstrates how narratives concerned with queerness and regional sexual fluidity reveal a diversity in embodiments of individual desire and expression that both transgress and transform the accepted social, cultural, and geopolitical boundaries governing everyday island life. These written accounts represent a history of sexually nonconforming practices in the region, as well as a record of the ongoing role of the multi-island nation-state in the production of queerness and fluidity
Writing the Queer Caribbean / Canada / Beyond – A Conversation with H. Nigel Thomas
Get PDFH. Nigel Thomas is the writer of twelve books and a retired professor of American literature at Laval University. Born and raised in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, he moved to Montréal in 1968. Nigel’s illustrious career includes short stories, poems and articles that have appeared in multiple journals and anthologies. His novels Spirits in the Dark and No Safeguards were shortlisted for the Quebec Writers Federation Hugh MacLennan Fiction Prize. Des vies Cassées (the translation of Lives: Whole and Otherwise) was shortlisted for le Prix Carbet des Lycéens. In this interview, Linzey Corridon explores queerness in the Caribbean Canadian diaspora, intergenerational queer subjectivities, multiculturalism, audience reception, publishing, and circulation in the Caribbean
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
“Learning to Belong Here in an Altogether Different Way”: An Interview with Julietta Singh (Interview)
No full textDispelling 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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