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The Construction of the Self in the Memoirs of Exile : Anzia Yezierska and Lucette Lagnado
No full textBased upon a vision of exile as a traumatic experience, this thesis offers an in-depth analysis of the memoirs of the Jewish Egyptian author Lucette Lagnado and the Jewish Polish writer Anzia Yezierska. Theories of psychological trauma are used in order to demonstrate how these memoirists’ experiences have been embodied in historical and contemporary discourse. In the first chapter we study the reasons behind the exilic experience of each writer. Relying on exile theory conceptualized by Sophia McClellan, this first chapter deals with the spatial, temporal, and linguistic crises caused by the trauma of exile. The second chapter focuses on ethnic identity construction and how women writers conceptualize ethnic identity through their writings. The last chapter deals with the healing methods that the memoirists used in order to overcome the trauma of exile, be it on the personal or communal levelÀ partir d'une vision de l'exil comme expérience traumatisante, cette thèse propose une analyse approfondie des mémoires de l'auteure juive égyptienne, Lucette Lagnado et de l’écrivaine juive polonaise, Anzia Yezierska. Les théories du trauma sont utilisées afin de démontrer comment les expériences de ces mémorialistes sont inscrites dans un contexte discursif propre à chacune de ces auteures. Dans le premier chapitre, nous étudions les raisons de l’exil de chaque écrivaine. S’appuyant sur la théorie de l'exil conceptualisée par Sophia McClellan, ce premier chapitre traite des crises spatiales, temporelles et linguistiques engendrées par le traumatisme de l’exil. Le deuxième chapitre est axé sur la construction de l’identité ethnique et sur la façon dont les femmes écrivaines conceptualisent l’identité ethnique à travers leurs écrits. Le dernier chapitre examine les méthodes de guérison que les mémorialistes ont utilisées pour surmonter le traumatisme de l'exil, que ce soit au niveau personnel ou communautair
La construction de soi dans les mémoires de l'exil : Anzia Yezierska et Lucette Lagnado
No full textBased upon a vision of exile as a traumatic experience, this thesis offers an in-depth analysis of the memoirs of the Jewish Egyptian author Lucette Lagnado and the Jewish Polish writer Anzia Yezierska. Theories of psychological trauma are used in order to demonstrate how these memoirists’ experiences have been embodied in historical and contemporary discourse. In the first chapter we study the reasons behind the exilic experience of each writer. Relying on exile theory conceptualized by Sophia McClellan, this first chapter deals with the spatial, temporal, and linguistic crises caused by the trauma of exile. The second chapter focuses on ethnic identity construction and how women writers conceptualize ethnic identity through their writings. The last chapter deals with the healing methods that the memoirists used in order to overcome the trauma of exile, be it on the personal or communal levelÀ partir d'une vision de l'exil comme expérience traumatisante, cette thèse propose une analyse approfondie des mémoires de l'auteure juive égyptienne, Lucette Lagnado et de l’écrivaine juive polonaise, Anzia Yezierska. Les théories du trauma sont utilisées afin de démontrer comment les expériences de ces mémorialistes sont inscrites dans un contexte discursif propre à chacune de ces auteures. Dans le premier chapitre, nous étudions les raisons de l’exil de chaque écrivaine. S’appuyant sur la théorie de l'exil conceptualisée par Sophia McClellan, ce premier chapitre traite des crises spatiales, temporelles et linguistiques engendrées par le traumatisme de l’exil. Le deuxième chapitre est axé sur la construction de l’identité ethnique et sur la façon dont les femmes écrivaines conceptualisent l’identité ethnique à travers leurs écrits. Le dernier chapitre examine les méthodes de guérison que les mémorialistes ont utilisées pour surmonter le traumatisme de l'exil, que ce soit au niveau personnel ou communautair
Nostalgia for a Lost Home: Exile and Trauma in Lucette Lagnado’s Memoirs
Get PDFThis paper seeks to study exile as a traumatic experience by focusing on the multiple manifestations of trauma in the memoirs of the Jewish-Egyptian writer Lucette Lagnado. Exile, in Edward Said’s view, “is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place, between the self and its true home” (Said 2000: 173). Lagnado chose writing to voice the trauma of exile of the whole Jewish Egyptian community expelled from Egypt after the establishment of the state of Israel and the arrival of the Free Officers to power in 1952. In Lagnado’s memoirs, trauma re-surfaces in different places and times, through flashbacks and nightmares. These unwanted and suppressed memories reemerge involuntarily and keep Lagnado trapped in an ever-ending nostalgia. Both Caruth’s work on trauma and Herman’s analysis of the three stages of trauma recovery will help us better understand the place of trauma in Lagnado’s memoirs
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
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