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Poetry Collection | Excerpts from The Complicated Lives of Islands
Full text linkPoems included: “Little Boy Dying,” “Missing Pearls,” “The House of Métis,” “The End of the World is Pleasure,” “Waste,” and “Legacies of Trauma
Of patriarchy, madness, mythology, and the queer in nation making: a critique on tropes of sexualities in post-colonial African literatures
Full text linkMasters in African Literature
Faculty of Humanities
University of WitwatersrandThis research report interrogates how queer sexualities are represented in postcolonial
African literatures. It queries representations of queer sexualities and their place in the
fiction of the nation. It deploys queer as the coopted marker of pride and liberation that
was deployed by gender and sexuality activists in the gay liberation movement of the 1960s
and 1970s, and subsequently, gender and sexuality scholars in contemporary times. It relies
on this articulation of queer to locate homosexuality and same-sex desire at the centre of
an argument about the development of the idea of the African nation, and how this idea
continues to locate same-sex desire and sexuality outside of or hidden in discussions about
dominant modes of sexuality expressions. It reads Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart
(1958/1962) in conversation with Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions (1988) and K.
Sello Duiker’s The Quiet Violence of Dreams (2001) to explore the discursive modalities
through which queer sexualities circulate in these seminal works, and to interrogate the
extent to which they employ Achebe’s fictional world as integral to what it means to be
African. This exploration is located within a set of assumptions about how the African
nation is reproduced, and how modes of living and existing, are determined in African
literature. Central to its argument, it meditates on the narrative closures employed by
Achebe, Dangarembga and Duiker to determine how they facilitate, challenge, affirm or
disrupt the sanctity of the heterosexual African nation through the circulation of
patriarchal constructions of masculinity and same-sex desires and sexuality. The report
explores the extent to which the texts deploy mythology and madness as points of entry
into transgressive modes of existence within the nation. It further considers the role of the
archive in imagining the queer body in the nation and the power dynamics that instruct
the reading of same-sex desiring and homosexual bodies as non-normative. It argues that
due to the exclusion of same-sex desiring and homosexual bodies in what constitutes the
imaginary of the African nation in negotiating the nation’s anxiety about benefiting from
the nations affect schema, the excluded bodies are burdened with the work of excavating
from historical archives to legitimate their existence. In using the archive, the report
argues that queer bodies enact resistance by un-silencing the archive and excavating the
costs of a collective forgetting process that facilitates the postcolonial project of civilized
sensibilities. This work is undertaken to perform historical commentary that trespasses the
dominant modes of erasure that continue to locate the queer body as outside the
experience of Blackness. The report ultimately makes a case for the productive capacity of
interrogating and reporting Black abjection in order to construct epistemological
frameworks that enable a pedagogy that re-memories and re-members those that the
nation opts to erase. It argues for a disavowal of fictions about progress that are predicated
on a desire that fits within the scope of liberal conceptions of progress and civility. As a
mode of re-memory-ing and re-member-ing, this report proposes an affinity for
irresolvability with regards to conceptions of subjecthood in order to negotiate nationmaking
projects that are liberatory for those who have been historically placed outside of
the complicated and irresolvable matrix of national sentiment that privileges heterosexual
sexuality expressions.MT 201
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
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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