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Mulheres em areias distópicas: violências e subjetividades em Who Fears Death, de Nnedi Okorafor
Get PDFSet in a post-apocalyptic Africa marked by ethno-racial hierarchies, gendered and class violence, the dystopia Who Fears Death, by Naijamerican writer Nnedi Okorafor, constitutes the corpus of this dissertation. The narrative follows Onyesonwu, an Ewu—a child born of weaponized rape in a context of war—whose body becomes a site upon which colonial power, patriarchy, and racialization are inscribed. The central problem of this research revolves around the way violence operates not only as physical aggression but also as a structuring principle of bodies, subjectivities, memories, languages, and cosmologies. The novel presents violence as colonial, racial, gendered, symbolic, structural, and epistemological, articulating individual trauma with the historical legacy of domination. The hypothesis guiding this study is that the female characters in Who Fears Death are traversed by overlapping layers of these violences, yet they develop strategies of resistance that transform the meanings of their beings. Methodologically, the dissertation adopts an ecofeminist approach articulated with decolonial thought and with africanfuturism, a concept coined by Okorafor that envisions a futurity rooted in Africa. The dissertation is organized into four chapters. The first chapter, “Goat-Skins and Scars: Ewu,” presents the theoretical foundation on body, violence, and the concept of Ewu, a metaphor created by the author and grounded in real conflicts. The second chapter, “Womb of Sand, Wounds of Song: Najeeba,” focuses on the figure of the mother of an Ewu being, engaging themes such as rape as a weapon of war, voice, and motherhood. The third chapter, “Skin the Shade of Sand, Body the Color of Exile: Onyesonwu,” investigates the violences inflicted upon the protagonist and her strategies of both survival and resistance. Finally, the fourth chapter, “Umunne Bound by Blood: Onye, Diti, Luyu and Binta,” discusses the Eleventh Year Rite, one that involves genital cutting, as well as the relationships among the group of young women. It is expected that this work contributes to a critical reflection on the ways literature can both expose and resist systems of domination, amplifying voices and opening paths toward alternative epistemologies and worldmaking practices. Keywords: africanfuturism; decoloniality; dystopian literature; ecofeminism; women's writingAmbientada em uma África pós-apocalíptica atravessada por hierarquias étnico- raciais, violência de gênero e classe, a distopia Who Fears Death, da escritora nigeriano-americana Nnedi Okorafor, constitui o corpus desta dissertação. A narrativa acompanha Onyesonwu, uma Ewu, isto é, uma criança filha de estupro como arma em contexto de guerra, cujo corpo se torna um espaço de inscrição do poder colonial, do patriarcado e da racialização. O problema central desta pesquisa gira em torno da forma como a violência opera não apenas como agressão física, mas como princípio estruturante de corpos, subjetividades, memórias, linguagens e cosmologias. A obra apresenta a violência como colonial, racial, de gênero, simbólica, estrutural e epistemológica, articulando trauma individual e herança histórica da dominação. A hipótese que orienta este estudo é a de que as personagens femininas de Who Fears Death são atravessadas por camadas sobrepostas dessas violência, mas desenvolvem estratégias de resistência que transformam os sentidos de suas existências. Como método, adota-se uma abordagem ecofeminista articulada ao pensamento decolonial e ao africanofuturismo, conceito cunhado por Okorafor que compreende uma futuridade enraizada em África. A dissertação organiza-se em quatro capítulos. O primeiro capítulo, intitulado “Goat-Skins and Scars: Ewu”, apresenta a base teórica sobre corpo, violência e o conceito de Ewu, metáfora criada pela autora ancorada em conflitos reais. O segundo capítulo, “Womb of Sand, Wounds of Song: Najeeba”, volta-se para a figura da mãe do ser Ewu, encontrando temas do estupro como arma de guerra, voz e a maternidade. O terceiro capítulo, “Skin the Shade of Sand, Body the Color of Exile: Onyesonwu”, investiga as violências sofridas pela protagonista e suas estratégias tanto de sobrevivência quanto de resistência. Por fim, o quarto capítulo, denominado “Umunne Bound by Blood: Onye, Diti, Luyu and Binta”, discute o rito dos 11 anos que envolve mutilação genital, bem como a relação entre o grupo de jovens mulheres. Espera-se que este trabalho contribua para uma reflexão crítica sobre as maneiras pelas quais a literatura pode tanto expor quanto resistir a sistemas de dominação, ampliando vozes e abrindo caminhos para epistemologias alternativas e novas práticas de construção de mundos.Palavras-chave: africanofuturismo; decolonialidade; literatura distópica; ecofeminismo; autoria feminina;Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)Fundação de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais (FAPEMIG)Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq
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
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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