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Urban Youth unemployment in Zimbabwe: An African-centered literary-based critique of Tsitsi Dangarembga’s The Book of Not (2006), Valerie Tagwira’s The Uncertainty of Hope (2006) and Petina Gappah’s An Elegy for Easterly (2009)
No full textThe article analyses Zimbabwean post-2000 black female-authored novels’ depictions of urban youth unemployment against the backdrop of the socio-economic crises culminating from the post-2000 economic melt-down. The analysis uses an African-centred approach drawing from trajectories of the youth represented in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s novel The Book of Not (2006), Valerie Tagwira’s The Uncertainty of Hope (2006) respectively and Petina Gappah’s short story collection, An Elegy for Easterly (2009). These female-authored literary narratives form an essential socio-historical record of the experiences constituting the bedrock of urban
youth unemployment. Critical attention concerning the period under review has
mainly focused on political polarisation and the economic meltdown, overshadowing
the worst affected demographic group of Zimbabwe’s population – the urban
unemployed youths. The socio-economic and historical accounts of the period under
question in Zimbabwe’s embittered post-2000 experiences have also been
mainly male-dominated. Thus, making it imperative to interrogate how femaleauthored fictional narratives as critical socio-historical imaginings of the same
socio-economic and historical environment depict how post-independence Zimbabwe
nurtures its youths for a sustainable future. In situating both texts and their
criticism within the context in which they are generated and developed, this article
adopts an African-centred approach in its critique. It draws mainly from Molefi
Kete Asante’s Afrocentric “Location Theory”. The theory urges appreciation and
analysis of writers’ creativity, including their motifs, meaning, language, attitude,
direction and vision within the cultural and historical experiences of a people.
Cognisant of Zimbabwean history and Zimbabweans’ aspirations, it is envisaged
that this article will enhance understanding, sharpen insights and encourage
readers to self-introspect on why African youths constitute the hardest-hit demographic group in terms of urban unemployment, an aspect that authors selected for this article partially focus on
Urban Youth unemployment in Zimbabwe: An African-centered literary-based critique of Tsitsi Dangarembga’s The Book of Not (2006), Valerie Tagwira’s The Uncertainty of Hope (2006) and Petina Gappah’s An Elegy for Easterly (2009).
No full textThe article analyses Zimbabwean post-2000 black female-authored novels’ depictions of urban youth unemployment against the backdrop of the socio-economic crises culminating from the post-2000 economic melt-down. The analysis uses an African-centred approach drawing from trajectories of the youth represented in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s novel The Book of Not (2006), Valerie Tagwira’s The Uncertainty of Hope (2006) respectively and Petina Gappah’s short story collection, An Elegy for Easterly (2009). These female-authored literary narratives form an essential socio-historical record of the experiences constituting the bedrock of urban youth unemployment. Critical attention concerning the period under review has mainly focused on political polarisation and the economic meltdown, overshadowing the worst affected demographic group of Zimbabwe’s population – the urban unemployed youths. The socio-economic and historical accounts of the period under question in Zimbabwe’s embittered post-2000 experiences have also been mainly male-dominated. Thus, making it imperative to interrogate how femaleauthored fictional narratives as critical socio-historical imaginings of the same socio-economic and historical environment depict how post-independence Zimbabwe nurtures its youths for a sustainable future. In situating both texts and their criticism within the context in which they are generated and developed, this article adopts an African-centred approach in its critique. It draws mainly from Molefi Kete Asante’s Afrocentric “Location Theory”. The theory urges appreciation and analysis of writers’ creativity, including their motifs, meaning, language, attitude, direction and vision within the cultural and historical experiences of a people. Cognisant of Zimbabwean history and Zimbabweans’ aspirations, it is envisaged that this article will enhance understanding, sharpen insights and encourage readers to self-introspect on why African youths constitute the hardest-hit demographic group in terms of urban unemployment, an aspect that authors selected for this article partially focus on
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
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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