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Ama Ato Aidoo’s Black-Eyed Squint and the ‘Voyage in’ Experience: Dis(re)Orienting Blackness and Subverting Colonial Tale
No full textThis essay endeavors to read Ama Ata Aidoo’s Our Sister Killjoy with a postocolonially-inflected consciousness. It aims at demonstrating how her work could be read as a sophisticated postcolonial revision of the colonial travel narrative whereby the protagonist’s black-eyed squint operates as ‘the all-seeingeye’ to subvert the historically unbroken legacy of the Orientalist ideology. It tries to demonstrate how Sissie assumes authority and voice in an act that destabilizes the traditionally established modes of western representation. It is also an investigation into how Aidoo’s text adopts processes which “undo the Eurocentrism produced by the institution of the West’s trajectory” (Gross 1996: 240) through diverse acts of resistance and ‘various strategies of subversion and appropriation’. Her counter discursive strategies of resistance are shaped up in various ways by a feminist consciousness that attempts to articulate a distinct African version of identity and preserve cultural distinctiveness
Under Moroccan Gaze: Dis/(Re)orienting Orientalism American Style in Abdellatif Akbib’s Tangier’s Eyes on America
Get PDFThis article engages with travel literature and is mostly concerned with the image of America in Abdellatif Akbib’s travel-inspired narrative, Tangier’s Eyes on America (2001). It is devoted to examining a number of patterns of representation especially as they pertain to the notion of counter discourse and counter-hegemonic modalities of resistance and subversion. It also inspects the discursive mechanisms Akbib employs to represent America and highlights how Western cultural prejudices and stereotypes are destabilised, and how the discursively-inflected distortions of the Orientalist mindset are disturbed in his work. The choice of this text is determined by a strong desire to discover how the Other of the Orientalist ideology examines and understands the Western Self and modernity and how he/she dismantles “the Centre/Margin binarism of imperial discourse.
Moroccan subaltern voices narrated: the historical imaginary of race and the legacy of slavery in Rabbaj's Le Lutteur [The Wrestler] and El Hachimi’s Dhākirat al-narjis [The Daffodil’s Memory]
Get PDFNation in Moroccan historiography writings has traditionally been described as culturally, ethnically and racially homogeneous; an all-encompassing discourse that silences episodes about the historical legacy of slavery and racism in the country, and undermines multicultural Morocco. In fact, the history of Morocco's blacks of sub-Saharan descent remains fragmented, scattered and undocumented - partly because of the scarcity of archival sources. Recent years, however, have witnessed the revival of an 'African consciousness' in Moroccan history and in literature. This is also the case of Maghrebi (North African) and Arabic literature from the Mashreq (the Middle East) and the Gulf. In this paper, we consider how two recent Moroccan novels, [The Wrestler, in French] by My Seddick Rabbaj (2017) and [The Daffodil's Memory, in Arabic] by Rachid al-Hachimi (2018), deal with salient moments of trans-Saharan cultural connections. We argue that the historical and the geographical imaginaries connecting North and sub-Saharan Africa compel a discussion of the 'decolonial' as outlined by the Moroccan critic Abdelkebir Khatibi, and enforce a rebound on the concept of 'significant geographies'. In engaging with the narratives' concern about the construction of racial and cultural identities in Morocco, we consider how these works resonate with the recovery of the subaltern history of black Morocco, and how gender, rural and ethnic identity inform and imbue the texts with a knot of ambivalent discourses. [Abstract copyright: © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
L'appropriation des objets connectés par le consommateur marocain, entre résistance et confiance : une approche phénoménologique
Get PDFLes objets connectés sont désormais omniprésents dans notre quotidien, révolutionnant la santé, la maison intelligente et l'industrie. Cependant, leur adoption est complexe, oscillant entre la résistance initiale et la confiance des utilisateurs. Cet article, adoptant une approche phénoménologique sur un échantillon de 25 personnes, explore cette relation, révélant que la confiance dépend de l'éducation, de la transparence, de la sécurité, de la communication et de la résolution de problèmes. Parallèlement, des obstacles tels que les problèmes de sécurité, la complexité perçue, le coût, la méfiance envers la technologie et le manque de compréhension sont identifiés.
L'étude souligne l'importance de comprendre ces facteurs pour guider le développement des objets connectés. Elle met en lumière l'interaction complexe entre la perception des utilisateurs et les caractéristiques des dispositifs IoT, proposant des pistes pour renforcer la confiance et atténuer la résistance. En résumé, l'article contribue à façonner l'avenir des objets connectés en prenant en compte les préoccupations des utilisateurs, visant une adoption plus éclairée de cette technologie prometteuse
'Una lengua cuenta mil verdades': narración, traducción e ilustración en Chocolate Creams and Dollars, de Mohamed Mrabet
No full textThis study attempts to explore one of the less-studied works in Paul Bowles-Mohamed Mrabet's intellectual and translational collaborations, Chocolate Creams and Dollars, a semi-autobiographical novel illustrated by Philip Taaffe's photographs and found objects. The story presents Driss, a young Moroccan entangled within the shifts and twists of encounter with Westerners in a Northern Moroccan coastal city. By virtue of the three different interventions – Mrabet's story, Bowles's translation and Taaffe's art – the novel is contrapuntal, since each creator presents a different – and often conflicting – point of view. The three of them are observers who record Morocco's ‘Interzone’ from different angles and cultural agendas. This paper seeks to understand these networks of collaborative connections as they pertain to transcultural contacts, exploring the sexual, cross-cultural, textual and visual discourses running through the narrative fabrics. It analyses Bowles's slippages in authority and in authorship and Taaffe's objectifying and exotifying gaze, and how Driss, Mrabet's protagonist, turns his ethnographic gaze back upon the Westerners. It finally argues that Mrabet's novel, through the symbolic appropriation of experiences with Westerners, articulates intricate discourses on the construction of a cultural identity at the crossroads of neocolonial ventures and postcolonial anxieties.Depto. de Estudios Ingleses: Lingüística y LiteraturaFac. de FilologíaTRUEpu
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
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