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Barolong Seboni, Nitty Gritty: The Book of Meanings
Get PDFNitty Gritty-The Book of Meanings is Barolong Seboni’s latest compilation of brief satirical skits, vignettes,
rib-ticklers, poems and lists of newly minted words and jingles. The jocular collection features a complete dictionary of Tshele (‘gossip’). Intellectual teasers, light-minded Commandments, prayers, and laments are in the mix. Seboni’s literary credentials are secure. He is an author of more than a dozen book publications. For more than half a century, he has consistently proven to be a productive writer. As a writer, he has remarkable drive, staying power, versatility, and finesse. Seboni is an unassuming doyen of Botswana literature who continues to use his ever-valid poetic licence to edify. He dedicates his humorous pieces to a quintet of brilliant Botswana journalists whom he honours as ‘the grandmasters of satire’ namely: Rampholo Molefhe, Paul Rantao, Kgosinkwe Moesi, Billy Chiepe and Douglas Tsiako
Fred Morton, When Rustling Became an Art: Pilane’s Kgatla and the Transvaal Frontier 1820-1902
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A Synoptical Appreciation of Moteane Melamu’s Botswana Short Stories
Get PDFThis article is an appreciation of five of Melamu’s short fictional pieces. It shows how the selected stories depict life in Botswana. All the stories discussed are set in Gaborone. They offer glimpses of urban life in domestic spaces, political arenas, the streets and neighbourhoods. The stories feature a variety of fallible characters with different traits, anxieties and foibles. The discussion shows how the characters act and interact in the particular circumstances they find themselves in. The stories attest to Melamu’s prowess as a storyteller
Joseph Tsonope (ed.), Lenyalo: Marriage Cultures and Processes in Botswana
Get PDFLenyalo: Marriage Cultures and Processes in Botswana: Past and Present is a collection of chapters that delineates traditional and contemporary conventions, procedures, rituals, roles, and ceremonies pertaining to marital unions among different ethnic groups in Botswana. The book also sheds light on how marriage rites and formalities have changed over time, especially how marriage as an institution is buffeted by the vagaries of modernity. The concluding section of the book offers a set of recommendations on how the institution of marriage and the customary practices that sustain it can be recalibrated
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
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