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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
New directions in African American ecocriticism [Reseña de libro]
No full textReseña de los libros: Sonya Posmentier, Cultivation and Catastrophe: The Lyric Ecology of Modern Black
Literature (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017), 304 pp.-- Lindgren Johnson, Race Matters, Animal Matters: Fugitive Humanism in African America,
1840–1930 (New York: Routledge, 2018), 212 pp. --
John Claborn, Civil Rights and the Environment in African-American Literature, 1895–1941 (London, New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017), 216 pp
Environmental Knowledge, Race, and African American Literature
No full textThis open access book suggests new ways of reading nineteenth-century African American literature environmentally. Combining insights from ecocriticism, African American studies, and Foucauldian theory, Matthias Klestil examines forms of environmental knowledge in African American writing ranging from antebellum slave narratives and pamphlets to Charlotte Forten’s journals, Booker T. Washington’s autobiographies, and Charles W. Chesnutt’s short fiction. The volume highlights how literary forms of environmental knowledge in the African American tradition were shaped by the histories of slavery and race, mainstream environmental writing traditions, and African American forms of expression and intertextuality. Turning to the Underground Railroad, debates over education and home-building, and the aesthetics of the pastoral and the georgic, Environmental Knowledge, Race, and African American Literature provides an original perspective on the African American ecoliterary tradition that uncovers new facets of canonical and understudied texts and offers new directions for ecocriticism and African American studies
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
Reseña de "Der Anthropos im Anthropozän: Die Wiederkehr des Menschen im Moment seiner vermeintlich endgültigen Verabschiedung"
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Book review of "Der Anthropos im Anthropozän: Die Wiederkehr des Menschen im Moment seiner vermeintlich endgültigen Verabschiedung" [Reseña de libro]
No full textReseña del libro: Hannes Bajohr, ed., "Der Anthropos im Anthropozän: Die Wiederkehr des Menschen im Moment seiner vermeintlich endgültigen Verabschiedung" (Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, 2020), 244 pp
Blackness and the Anthropocene sublime in Jesmyn Ward’s fiction
Full text linkThis article focuses on the potentials of African American literature to analyze and rethink interlinkages of race, the sublime, and the Anthropocene. Specifically, it discusses two of Jesmyn Ward’s novels, “Salvage the Bones” (2011) and “Let Us Descend” (2023), through a focus on Blackness and the notion of the Anthropocene sublime. My readings showthat Ward mobilizes traditions of the sublime through an African American environmental perspective, thus highlighting the racial dimensions of the Anthropocene sublime and often suggesting alternative forms of thinking aboutt he human. After introducing the theoretical and conceptual frameworks of my analysis this article focuses on two strategies through which Ward negotiates questions of Blackness and the Anthropocene sublime: playing with collapsing temporalities (“Salvage the Bones”) and with figures that I interpret as “elemental ghosts” (“Let Us Descend”). It argues that Ward’s Katrina-novel “Salvage the Bones” speaks to the Anthropocene sublime by representing “civilizational collapse” as part of the present (not a far-off future), by showing the effects of traditions of anti-Blackness on the present, and by collapsing human and more-than-human temporalities through a discourse of motherhood. “Let Us Descend”, on the other hand, a historical fiction set in the antebellum period, addresses Blackness and the Anthropocene sublime by representing the racial sublime of slavery through the figures of “elemental ghosts.” Through perspectives developed in African American studies, my readings of thenovels demonstrate how Ward strategically deploys established traditions of the sublime in ways that resonate with the Anthropocene and contribute to a more race-sensitive conceptualization of the Anthropocene sublime.Este artículo examina el potencial de la literatura afroamericana para analizar y repensar las interrelaciones entre raza, lo sublime y el Antropoceno. Analiza dos novelas de Jesmyn Ward, “Salvage the Bones” (2011) y “Let Us Descend” (2023), centrándose en la negritud y en la noción de lo sublime del Antropoceno. Mis interpretaciones sugieren que Ward utiliza las tradiciones de lo sublime a través de una perspectiva ambiental afroamericana, poniendo así de relieve las dimensiones raciales de lo sublime del Antropoceno y tratando de inspirar formas alternativas de pensar lo humano. Tras introducir los fundamentos teóricos y conceptuales de mi análisis, este artículo se centra en dos estrategias a través de las cuales Ward negocia las cuestiones de la negritud y lo sublime del Antropoceno: jugando con temporalidades que se colapsan (“Salvage the Bones”) y con figuras que yo interpreto como “elemental ghosts”(“Let Us Descend”). Argumenta que la novela de Ward “Salvage the Bones” habla de lo sublime del Antropoceno al representar el “colapso civilizatorio” como parte del presente (no de un futuro lejano), al mostrar los efectos de las tradiciones antinegras en el presente y al colapsar las temporalidades humanas y más-que-humanas a través de un discurso de maternidad. “Let Us Descend”, por su parte, una novela de ficción histórica ambientada en el periodo anterior a la Guerra de Secesión trata la negritud y lo sublime del Antropoceno representando lo sublime racial de la esclavitud a través de las figuras de “elemental ghosts”. Las lecturas de las novelas demuestran cómo Ward utiliza estratégicamente las tradiciones establecidas de lo sublime en formas que resuenan con el Antropoceno y contribuyen a conceptualizar lo sublime del Antropoceno a través de nociones desde la perspectiva de los estudios afroamericanos
La negritud y lo sublime del Antropoceno en la ficción de Jesmyn Ward
No full textThis article focuses on the potentials of African American literature to analyze and rethink interlinkages of race, the sublime, and the Anthropocene. Specifically, it discusses two of Jesmyn Ward’s novels, Salvage the Bones (2011) and Let Us Descend (2023), through a focus on Blackness and the notion of the Anthropocene sublime. My readings show that Ward mobilizes traditions of the sublime through an African American environmental perspective, thus highlighting the racial dimensions of the Anthropocene sublime and often suggesting alternative forms of thinking about the human. After introducing the theoretical and conceptual frameworks of my analysis this article focuses on two strategies through which Ward negotiates questions of Blackness and the Anthropocene sublime: playing with collapsing temporalities (Salvage the Bones) and with figures that I interpret as “elemental ghosts” (Let Us Descend). It argues that Ward’s Katrina-novel Salvage the Bones speaks to the Anthropocene sublime by representing “civilizational collapse” as part of the present (not a far-off future), by showing the effects of traditions of anti-Blackness on the present, and by collapsing human and more-than-human temporalities through a discourse of motherhood. Let Us Descend, on the other hand, a historical fiction set in the antebellum period, addresses Blackness and the Anthropocene sublime by representing the racial sublime of slavery through the figures of “elemental ghosts.” Through perspectives developed in African American studies, my readings of the novels demonstrate how Ward strategically deploys established traditions of the sublime in ways that resonate with the Anthropocene and contribute to a more race-sensitive conceptualization of the Anthropocene sublime.Este artículo examina el potencial de la literatura afroamericana para analizar y repensar las interrelaciones entre raza, lo sublime y el Antropoceno. Analiza dos novelas de Jesmyn Ward, Salvage the Bones (2011) y Let Us Descend (2023), centrándose en la negritud y en la noción de lo sublime del Antropoceno. Mis interpretaciones sugieren que Ward utiliza las tradiciones de lo sublime a través de una perspectiva ambiental afroamericana, poniendo así de relieve las dimensiones raciales de lo sublime del Antropoceno y tratando de inspirar formas alternativas de pensar lo humano. Tras introducir los fundamentos teóricos y conceptuales de mi análisis, este artículo se centra en dos estrategias a través de las cuales Ward negocia las cuestiones de la negritud y lo sublime del Antropoceno: jugando con temporalidades que se colapsan (Salvage the Bones) y con figuras que yo interpreto como “elemental ghosts” (Let Us Descend). Argumenta que la novela de Ward Salvage the Bones habla de lo sublime del Antropoceno al representar el “colapso civilizatorio” como parte del presente (no de un futuro lejano), al mostrar los efectos de las tradiciones antinegras en el presente y al colapsar las temporalidades humanas y más-que-humanas a través de un discurso de maternidad. Let Us Descend, por su parte, una novela de ficción histórica ambientada en el periodo anterior a la Guerra de Secesión trata la negritud y lo sublime del Antropoceno representando lo sublime racial de la esclavitud a través de las figuras de “elemental ghosts”. Las lecturas de las novelas demuestran cómo Ward utiliza estratégicamente las tradiciones establecidas de lo sublime en formas que resuenan con el Antropoceno y contribuyen a conceptualizar lo sublime del Antropoceno a través de nociones desde la perspectiva de los estudios afroamericanos
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