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Interrogating female leadership : Miriam (Numbers 12), Jael (Judges 4), and Jezebel (1 Kings 16) in conversation with Winnie Madikizela-Mandela in the film Long Walk to Freedom
Get PDFThesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2025.Davis, S. V. 2025. Interrogating Female Leadership: Miriam (Numbers 12), Jael (Judges 4), and Jezebel (1 Kings 16) in Conversation with Winnie Madikizela-Mandela in the Film Long Walk to Freedom. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Stellenbosch: Stellenbosch University [online]. Available: https://scholar.sun.ac.za/items/dd0dd325-975a-418e-bb1a-766e49122575ENGLISH SUMMARY: This study examines how women are portrayed in leadership in the Hebrew Bible and in a modern film. It brings into conversation the portrayal of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela in the film Long Walk to Freedom (2013) with three biblical characters, i.e., Miriam (Numbers 12), Jael (Judges 4), and Jezebel (1 Kings 16). Read through a postcolonial feminist framework as well as postcolonial film theory, strategies of imperialism and patriarchal ideologies are identified when portraying the character of Winnie as well as of women in the biblical text as products of patriarchal and imperial contexts. This study presents intersectional avenues and parallels between these biblical women leaders and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. This dissertation asserts that these women have not always been recognised for their pivotal leadership roles; their contributions have been met with forms of punishment for speaking against their male counterparts or holding different convictions.
The study illuminates alternative avenues of interpretation and reconsiders the complex relationship between violence, power, and leadership in the portrayal of these female characters. Moreover, it presents questions that should be continually probed and contested in biblical texts and contemporary society. It poses the fundamental question present in feminist and womanist interrogation: Whose interests do these portrayals of these women and their leadership serve? In its quest to probe the fundamental question in feminist and womanist interrogation, this study rejects the binaries imposed on these women and explores alternative possible interpretations. This research has been a development of discovering and restructuring coherent sense-making of these women’s characterisations by employing restorative frameworks for ongoing discussion of women in leadership.
With the abovementioned in mind, this dissertation employs multidimensional intersecting reading lenses, which enriched and transformed interpretative possibilities and nurtured life-giving portrayals of women. In doing this, the study displays the possibilities the reading lenses may yield at the junctions of apparently opposing yet interlinked components of both the biblical text and women’s lived experiences.
By reading the Old Testament narratives intersectionally, this study pursues the goal to reason and argue for the elusive, multifaceted, hermeneutical, and moral engagements exhibited amid interrelated issues of power, domination, hierarchy, and ideals of male honour and female shame. This study is immersed in the possibility of alternative portrayals of underdog women in biblical texts as well as in contemporary society.
Finally, this study focusses on the retelling of stories, and illuminates that the manner in which they are remembered in the repositories of history does matter, and therefore, retelling, recreating, and re-evaluating ideological motives behind how women are portrayed and remembered is crucial for contemporary society and future generations. When we embark on this journey, we ensure that these women are never remembered as one-dimensional beings in the derogative manner so often prioritised. The study shows that when we continually move forward in terms of challenging, questioning, and reconstructing, we give life to how women, specifically women in leadership, are portrayed and remembered; they are re-imagined in their afterlife and the reception of their leadership.AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie ondersoek hoe vroue in leierskap in die Hebreeuse Bybel en in hedendaagse film uitgebeeld word. Die proefskrif bring die uitbeelding van Winnie Madikizela-Mandela in die film Long Walk to Freedom (2013) in gesprek met drie Bybelse karakters, naamlik Miriam (Numeri 12), Jael (Rigters 4) en Jezebel (1 Konings 16). Wanneer dit deur 'n postkoloniale feministiese raamwerk sowel as postkoloniale filmteorie gelees word, word strategiee van imperialisme en patriargale ideologiee geidentifiseer; die karakter van Winnie asook vroue in die Bybelse teks word uitgebeeld as produkte van patriargale en imperiale kontekste. Hierdie studie bied interseksionele wee en parallelle tussen hierdie Bybelse vroueleiers en Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. Dit stel dat hierdie vroue nie altyd vir hul deurslaggewende leierskaprolle erken is nie; hul bydraes is met vorme van straf beantwoord omdat hulle teen hul manlike ewekniee gekant was of ander oortuiginge gehad het. Verder belig hierdie studie alternatiewe wee van interpretasie en heroorweeg die komplekse verhouding tussen geweld, mag en leierskap in die uitbeelding van hierdie vroulike karakters. Dit bied ook vrae wat voortdurend ondersoek en betwis behoort te word in Bybelse tekste en die hedendaagse samelewing. Dit stel die fundamentele vraag in feministiese en womanistiese ondersoek: Wie se belange dien hierdie uitbeeldings van hierdie vroue en hul leierskap? In 'n poging om die fundamentele vraag in feministiese en womanistiese ondervraging te ondersoek, verwerp hierdie studie die tweeledigheid wat op hierdie vroue afgedwing is, en verken alternatiewe moontlike interpretasies. Hierdie proefskrif het ontwikkel uit die ontdekking en herstrukturering van samehangende singewing van hierdie vroue se karakterisering deur die gebruik van herstellende raamwerke vir deurlopende bespreking van vroue in leierskap. Met bogenoemde waarneming in gedagte, gebruik die navorsing multidimensionele oorkruisende leeslense, wat interpretasiemoontlikhede verryk en transformeer en lewegewende uitbeeldings van vroue moontlik maak. Sodoende wys die studie die moontlikhede wat die leeslense kan oplewer by die interseksies van oenskynlik verskillende dog onderling verbinde komponente van beide die Bybelteks en vroue se geleefde ervarings. Deur die Ou-Testamentiese narratiewe interseksioneel te lees, streef hierdie studie om te redeneer en te argumenteer vir die ontwykende, veelvlakkige, hermeneutiese en morele verbintenisse wat uitgebeeld word te midde van onderling verwante kwessies van mag, oorheersing, hierargie en ideale van manlike eer en vroulike skaamte. Hierdie studie delf in die moontlikheid van alternatiewe uitbeeldings van ondergeskikte vroue in Bybelse tekste sowel as in die hedendaagse samelewing. Laastens fokus hierdie studie op die oorvertel van stories, en dit belig dat die wyse waarop dit in die die geskiedenis onthou word, wel saak maak, en daarom is die oorvertel, herskep en herevaluering van ideologiese motiewe agter hoe vroue uitgebeeld en onthou word, deurslaggewend vir die hedendaagse samelewing en toekomstige generasies. Wanneer ons hierdie pad loop, verseker ons dat hierdie vroue nooit dieselfde onthou word nie – as eendimensionele wesens op die neerhalende wyse wat so dikwels geprioritiseer word nie. Die studie toon dat, wanneer ons voortdurend die roete van uitdaging, bevraagtekening en rekonstruksie kies, ons lewe gee aan hoe vroue, spesifiek vroue in leierskap, uitgebeeld en onthou word; hulle word heruitgebeeld in hul hiernamaals en die ontvangs van hul leierskap.Doctora
Viewing ‘Krotoa’ through a Rahab Prism : a postcolonial feminist encounter
Get PDFThesis (MTh)--Stellenbosch University, 2020.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis employs a hermeneutic of suspicion to reread the narratives of two underdog women characters, as it analyses the narrative world of Rahab in Joshua 2 and 6 and the story of Krotoa as portrayed in the 2017 film Krotoa side-by-side. This study argues that decolonising and deconstructing hegemonic interpretations of the biblical texts is the only way the Bible still may possess value to the marginalised.
Insights from postcolonial feminist biblical interpretation are employed to show how these two very different narrative worlds collide with each another. To reflect on the stories of Rahab and of Krotoa, Musa Dube’s Rahab’s reading prism is used as a reading strategy to reread the narrative of Rahab as well as the portrayed character of Krotoa in the 2017 film Krotoa.
Rahab’s character and portrayals are analysed by means of a postcolonial reading optic. Although most previous interpretations have portrayed Rahab as heroine as well as traitor, this study argues that Rahab was also the victim of the coloniser's pen, a literary construction of Israelite ideology.
This study further employs postcolonial feminist film theory as an additional methodological approach to critique the imperial strategies employed in the portrayal of Krotoa in the film Krotoa (2017). Postcolonial feminist film theory shows how the portrayal of Krotoa in the film version possesses a specific form of power which could liberate and at the same time perpetuate imperialising interpretations and ideologies.
Instead of revolutionising Krotoa in the history of South Africa by offering a life-giving portrayal of Krotoa, this study argues that the film has perpetuated elements of Afrikaner nationalism. Delineating the various portrayals of Krotoa exposed the patriarchal and imperial ideologies still present in the film especially with a practical application of Rahab’s reading prism.
The central premise of this thesis is that both Rahab and Krotoa have much in common. This study, therefore, applies a hermeneutic of suspicion that prioritises alternative perspectives in the pursuit of a transformative understanding of these two women in contrast to their reputation and portrayals as traitors. This study argues that the two women have suffered under the rhetoric of God, glory, gold, and gender. The biblical narrative of Rahab and the film Krotoa (2017), as well as the historiographies that depict them, are a perfect example of how the imperial powers impose their control
on foreign lands and on the bodies of women, who have been sacrificed on the altar of unity and imperial control.
Moreover, this study explores the possibility that these two women were betrayed by their own people and the colonisers have done what they do best—employing the bodies of women who serve as the contact zones for colonisation.
By interrogating, deconstructing, and re-interpreting these two characters, this study prioritises life-affirming interpretations and portrayals of both women. The study demonstrates how the chosen reading optic liberates Rahab and Krotoa from the yoke of imperial and patriarchal interpretations and portrayals.AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie tesis gebruik 'n benadering van hermeneutiese suspisie om die verhale van twee “underdog” vroue-karakters te herlees, deur die narratiewe wêrelde van Rahab in Josua 2 en 6 en die vertolking van Krotoa soos voorgestel in die 2017 film Krotoa langs mekaar te lees. Hierdie studie argumenteer dat die dekolonisering en dekonstruksie van hegemoniese interpretasies van die Bybelse tekste die enigste manier is waarop die Bybel steeds waarde kan hê vir die gemarginaliseerdes.
Die insigte van postkoloniale feministiese Bybelse interpretasie word gebruik om aan te toon hoe hierdie twee baie verskillende narratiewe wêrelde met mekaar in gesprek tree. In die proses om na te dink oor die verskillende vertellings van Rahab en die verhaal van Krotoa, word Musa Dube se Rahab-lees-prisma as leestrategie gebruik om die vertelling van Rahab en die uitbeelding van karakter 'Krotoa' in die film Krotoa (2017) te herlees.
Die karakter en uitbeeldings van Rahab word in die studie geanaliseer aan die hand van 'n post-koloniale leesoptiek. Rahab is onderskeidelik as heldin sowel as verraaier uitgebeeld. Volgens hierdie studie is Rahab die slagoffer van die pen van die koloniseerder, 'n literêre konstruksie van die Israelitiese ideologie.
Hierdie studie gebruik verder postkoloniale feministiese filmteorie as 'n addisionele metodologiese benadering ten einde die imperiale strategieë wat gebruik is in die uitbeelding van Krotoa in die film Krotoa (2017), krities te ontleed. Postkoloniale feministiese filmteorie toon aan hoe die uitbeelding van Krotoa in die filmweergawe 'n spesifieke vorm van mag besit wat terselfdertyd imperialiserende interpretasies en ideologieë kan bevry en voortbestaan.
In plaas daarvan om Krotoa op ‘n bevrydende wyse in die geskiedenis van Suid-Afrika uit te beeld, het die film elemente van Afrikanernasionalisme voortgesit. Met behulp van die toepassing van die Rahab-lees-prisma word die patriargale en imperiale ideologieë wat nog in die film aanwesig is met betrekking tot die verskillende uitbeeldings van Krotoa, blootgelê.
Die sentrale uitgangspunt vir hierdie tesis is dat hierdie twee vroue baie in gemeen het. Hierdie studie gebruik 'n hermeneutiek van suspisie om die alternatiewe perspektiewe van hierdie twee vroue te prioritiseer in die strewe na 'n nuwe verstaan van hierdie twee vrouens, afgesien van hul reputasie as verraaiers. Hierdie studie voer aan dat beide vroue onder die retoriek van God, glorie, goud en gender gely het. Die Bybelse verhaal van Rahab en die filmweergawe van Krotoa (2017) is ‘n goeie voorbeeld van hoe geskiedskrywing hierdie vroue “afgeskryf” het in die geskiedenis, van hoe die koloniale magte hul beheer op vreemde lande en op die liggame van vroue uitgeoefen het en op die altaar van eenheid en imperiale beheer geoffer het.
Hierdie studie ondersoek ook die moontlikheid dat twee vroue deur hul eie mense verraai is, en dat die koloniseerder gedoen het wat hulle die beste doen deur die liggame van vroue te gebruik wat dien as kontakgebiede vir kolonisasie.
Deur na te dink oor hierdie twee karakters, te dekonstrueer, en weer te interpreteer, prioritiseer hierdie studie lewensbevestigende interpretasies en uitbeeldings van beide vroue. In hierdie studie word uiteengesit hoe die gekose leesoptiek Rahab en Krotoa bevry van die juk van imperiale en patriargale interpretasies en uitbeeldings.Master
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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