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Masculinidade negra em Native Son, de Richard Wright e If Beale Street Could Talk, de James Baldwin: criminalização racial, morte e o mito do estuprador negro
No full textThis thesis examines the fictional representations of black manhood in the novels Native Son by Richard Wright and If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin. Guided by the premise that black men have historically experienced unique and distinct forms of oppression in the United States, which give rise to a particular form of vulnerability, the work analyzes how Wright’s and Baldwin’s selected works engage with the themes of racial criminalization, subjectivity, death, and the so-called “myth of the black rapist,” a cultural narrative that has been used to justify various forms of violence against black men since the 19th century. The investigation begins with a review of the historical processes linked to the anti-black punitive tradition that has permeated American society since its colonial origins and ultimately developed into contemporary mass incarceration. Discussions related to black manhood and death in the novels are then offered, adopting the perspective of African-American philosopher Tommy J. Curry, particularly his theoretical framework outlined in The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood. The notions of Black male vulnerability and Black male death, as interpreted through Curry’s work, serve as guiding principles for the proposed readings. Lastly, this thesis explores the myth of the black rapist and examines sexual violence and sexual vulnerability in the selected literary works. In parallel, the commonalities and divergences between the novels are observed throughout the work, oriented by the argument that If Beale Street Could Talk can be seen as a response to Native Son, with Baldwin engaging in a revision of the aspects he deems problematic in Wright’s novel.A dissertação examina as representações ficcionais da masculinidade negra nos romances Native Son, de Richard Wright, e If Beale Street Could Talk, de James Baldwin. Guiado pela premissa de que os homens negros vivenciam e vivenciaram, historicamente, formas únicas e distintas de opressão nos Estados Unidos, o trabalho analisa o engajamento das obras literárias de Wright e Baldwin com os temas da criminalização racial, da subjetividade, da morte, e do chamado “mito do estuprador negro”, uma narrativa cultural que serviu, desde o século XIX, como justificativa para diversas formas de violência direcionadas aos homens negros. A investigação tem como ponto de partida uma revisão dos processos históricos ligados à tradição punitivista racista que permeia a sociedade estadunidense desde suas origens coloniais e se desdobra no encarceramento em massa contemporâneo. Em seguida, são propostas discussões relacionadas à masculinidade negra e à morte nos romances a partir da perspectiva do filósofo afro-americano Tommy J. Curry, principalmente sua teoria delineada em The Man-Not: The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood. As noções de Black male vulnerability e Black Male Death, interpretadas a partir da obra de Curry, guiam as leituras das obras. Por fim, o trabalho explora o mito do estuprador negro, bem como a presença da violência e da vulnerabilidade sexual nas obras literárias selecionadas. Em paralelo, também são observados os pontos comuns e as divergências entre os romances, partindo do argumento de que If Beale Street Could Talk se apresenta como uma resposta a Native Son em que Baldwin engaja em uma espécie de revisão dos aspectos que julga problemáticos no romance de Wright.CAPES - Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superio
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
A ÁFRICA DE MAYA ANGELOU
No full textO presente artigo objetiva revisar a jornada de Maya Angelou em terras africanas, mediante a releitura crítica de sua narrativa autobiográfica relativa ao período em que viveu em Gana. Partindo de uma perspectiva ampla de análise cultural, o estudo se atenta para a busca identitária da autora afro-americana em sua relação com a África e seus significados. As características da escrita de Angelou são investigadas em paralelo com os temas que motivam sua obra, com o intuito de distinguir sua apropriação do gênero autobiográfico. Sua identidade como sujeito negro diaspórico, que narra suas próprias experiências vividas para além dos históricos limites do colonialismo, revela uma herança africana única que encontra na imaginação criativa um meio de luta cultural
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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