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Gloria Naylor's Mama Day: Magical Realism as the Site of Black Female Agency and Empowerment
No full textAbstractMagical realism has been commonly identified as a subversive and discursive narrative technique widely used by ethnic-identified and postcolonial authors around the world. Although the origins of magical realist literature are largely associated with Latin America, such tendencies to territorialize this narrative mode have proved to be inadequate due to its wide use across geographical and cultural boundaries This study aims to demonstrate how African-American author Gloria Naylor aptly employs magical realist narrative technique in her novel Mama Day (1989) to affect black female agency and empowerment with which black women can give voice to the silences and gaps in official history writing. The co-existence of two distant narrative discourses in the novel's very structure, one magical and mythical, the other rational, deconstructs Western systems of knowledge and representation, replacing them with a matrilineal, mythical/magical system of signification, with which black women can rehistoricize and articulate their communal histories by drawing upon myths, legends, orality, folklore, and other non-Western practices
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
The Effect of Thematic and Structural Rhetoric Narratives of Foreigners Towards Self in Introduction of Ottomans Named as the Easterners in the English, German and Italian Travelbooks in 18th and 19th Centuries
No full textAbstractIt is known that travelbooks which are aimed to affect and change the readers’ point of view through the unknown can be a source of lots of disciplines such as historic, geographical, ethnographic and folkloric ones. Travelbooks which have other chareacteristics such as the impression and amazement on the readers, also affect the reader just as he/ she is in the same journey due to the literary language used and written. However, on the one hand, most of the travelbooks reflect the truth about the matters quoted, on the other hand some of them are fictional works. In most of east-west encounters societies’ point of view, prejudice between cultures, negative reflection of the foreigners, quotation of the east culture especially of the Ottoman as the barbarian expose that people can’t know each other sufficiently. In our work, the travelbooks; English Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's “Briefe aus dem Orient” (Letters from the East), German Jakob Philip Fallmerayer's “Fragmente aus dem Orient”(Fragments from the East), German Dr. Edmund Naumann's “Vom Goldenen Horn zu den Quellen des Euphrat” (From the Golden Horn to the Spring of Euphrates) and Italian author Edmondo De Amicis's “İstanbul” will be examined and foreign culture mentality in understanding, comprehension, imagination of a foreign, guotation of themes/motives such as cultural relativity, trust, tradition, woman, hospitality and rhetoric expressions which are very important characteristics of travel narrations showing the truth and reality and rhetoric telling used to persuade reader will be researched with hermeneutics
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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