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Turning a Deaf Ear: Women’s Wounds in Truth and Reconciliation
No full textThough there is no identifiable field of African Subaltern Studies, such a scholarship can be gleaned from the accumulating critique of the very basis of post-apartheid South African national unity, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Recognizing texts as sites which generate discursive resistance, this paper attempts to extricate the Truth and Reconciliation Commission from the political grip of the post-apartheid state to question its premises from the perspective of a supranational struggle against both raced and gendered segregation.Positioning Zoe Wicomb’s novel David’s Story in the genre of struggle literature–a discourse of opposition that contests the heavily censored archival documentation of South African history, this paper ventures to understand the role of discursive violence against women in post-apartheid South Africa. It argues how David’s Story questions the very notion of truth in the truth and reconciliation hearings through which the anti-apartheid nationalism of the revolutionary African National Congress (ANC) strived to construct a new South Africa. It highlights how the TRC silenced the testimonials of pain of female ANC activists who were betrayed and tortured by their male peers within the revolution itself. Resonating the TRC testimony of Rita Mazibuko–the only ANC woman to testify about sexual torture on women comrades within the ANC itself, David’s Story brings in a biographical subtext to the notion of amnesty with regard to revolutionary (in)justice. It reflects on how rhetorical and discursive violations simulate the material aggression in apartheid South Africa. As violence interrupted South African lives during the apartheid era, similarly silence disrupts the representation of the memories of those lives in the post-apartheid nation. In the process, this paper forges a link between tortured South African women from the colonial era like Saartje Baartman (the Hottentot Venus) and ANC activists like Dulcie and Sally. However, through the transnational figure of the writer, this paper underscores how these stories of torture are resuscitated. The supranational discursive militancy of writers of South African heritage like Zoe Wicomb, writing from the metropoles of the globe, remap these tongue-tied stories of national shame confiscated by the nation onto the audible platform of a transnational feminist politics, thereby defining the new challenges and roles of South African literature
Women and militancy : narratives from Guatemala, India, and South Africa
Full text linkThesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. Department of English, 2007Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-228
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Full text linkWe 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
Meridians 23:1 Indigenous Feminisms across the World, Part 1
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