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Intimate Revolutions: Men and Women in 1960s Bengali Literature
No full textIn this project, I ask if avant-garde literary experimentations can enable an alternative imaginary for intimate lives. Through a close reading of experimental Bengali literature composed in 1960s post-independence India, Intimate Revolutions seeks to foreground the gender politics of countercultural innovations. I establish, using a wide and disparate set of novels and poems by Bengali men and women of the time, that literature was the site upon which revolutionary imaginations of gender and sexuality were first forged. Even though these texts belong to the era of the “global 60s”—usually associated with large-scale sociopolitical revolutions—these inventive works of prose and poetry turn their gaze away from the public towards the intimate. Bengali readers of the 1960s were initiated to unprecedented norms of individual identity and radical forms of intimacy through postcolonial modernist literature that were inspired by local as well as international energies and templates. I show how this eclectic corpus of literature recorded and represented concurrent transformations in discourses about gender and sexuality. By way of conclusion, I return to the shock and frisson generated by these audacious texts. I evaluate their transgressive potential in the long history of Bengali literary enunciations of intimate lives; I marvel at the intimate revolutions that these global 60s texts facilitate
The Nation and its Discontents:: Depicting Dissent during the Emergency
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The article examines the poetics of documenting dissent during the Emergency under Mrs. Indira Gandhi through two specific archives. The declaration of Emergency in a democracy attempts to cut down the very scale of political citizenship to which dissenting bodies seem to aspire. Historians of the Emergency have noted how the Indira-led-Congress systematically closed down all spaces of dissent. The texts used for this article are taken from either a particular archive which was inadvertently discovered by an Indian researcher in a US library, or from O V Vijayan’s doodles on the Emergency. As an Emergency veteran Makarand Desai claims, the truth had to be “smuggled” out of the Congress’ reach for it to be unearthed later. This “smuggling of dissent” occured either across physical spaces or in many cases within the text itself, hidden behind apparent innocuousness through sophisticated techniques. What were the forms of censorship and self-censorship adopted by these chroniclers of Emergency? What is the value of belated testimonies in recuperating what Desai calls “Truth”? And finally, one might wish to speculate over the extent to which the surveillance measures of the Emergency, and the subsequent regulated access to censored documents led to the shaping of the contemporary educated middle-class (readers) in India? This article will be an attempt to creatively read these two archives as modes of approaching the question of smothered dissent during the Emergency. Such a reading will interest scholars of visual and textual studies, as well as political theorists of the text
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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