1,721,009 research outputs found
Visions of Home in British Asian Women's Writing: Leena Dhingra's Amritvela and Roma Tearne's Bone China
Full text linkThe articles discusses the ways in which the works by British Asian authors Leena Dhingra and Roma Tearne deal with the issue of "home" and "home making". In their works which are shaped by the diasporic experience, both authors deal with home as a contested terrain and construct it in ways that reflect their unhinged subject positioning. British Asian women’s writing has been shaped by the
writers’ own experience of migration from the Indian Subcontinent to Britain. Over the last decades this thriving
trend in contemporary English literature has grown to reflect the reality that “there are now three generations of
Asian women living in Britain”, as sociologist Amrit Wilson has noted (Dreams, Questions, Struggles 129).
Women writers have variously addressed issues of individual and group identity, and explored the link between
gender and ethnicity. The search for a diasporic, cross-cultural identity, along with the quest for home and
belonging, are crucial issues in British Asian women’s writing: the diasporic experience has engendered multiple
linguistic and cultural relocations and the concept of home has become an increasingly contested terrain. In
diasporic women’s literature home is poised at the intersections of being ‘unhomed’, as suggested by Homi
Bhabha (Location of Culture 9), and feeling more or less comfortably at home in one country or more countries.
British Asian women’s writing stems from a tentative negotiation of opposites such as freedom and confinement,
uprooting and displacement and, as postcolonial critic Susheila Nasta has pointed out, offers an ongoing
reflection on multiple ways of conceiving ‘home"
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
Eco-Animation: Expanding the World of Environmental Animation
No full textAnimation holds a powerful ability to transport viewers to magical worlds as well as reveal aspects about the world around us that cannot be captured by live-action cinema or even expressed through words. An ecocritical look into cartoons has begun to unfold within the field of what has been called ""enviro-toons,"" which examines specifically cartoons with obvious environmental messages as themes. I propose a new term, ""eco-animation,"" which can open the field even further to examine other forms of animation beyond cartoons as well as ecological issues that might be layered beneath narratives that aren't overtly environmental. This project examines popular animated examples such as the films Rango, Epic, The Croods, the videogame Assassin's Creed: Black Flag, and the popular culture icons the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. These texts open the door for eco-animation to reveal further the power of animation to convey layered ecological messages and issues to a large audience.Thesis (M.A., English)--University of Idaho, May 201
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
She Says It This Way :
No full text“She Says It This Way :” is a conversation in writing with the poetic work She Says by Vénus Khoury-Ghata and a simultaneous exploration in the essence of form. Forty-one-word paragraphs populate these pages in response to phrases from She Says. Amidst the paragraphs can be found written discussions of how form—while constructing and reinforcing aspects of consciousness—similarly constrains and frees the writer. “She Says It This Way :” began also as an experiment in allowing form to serve as a support structure that might recondition the mind/body post-trauma. The project evolved into a micro-memoir, compelled by multiple languages, becoming its own container from which to study the ways grammar, sound, rhythm and syntax are ancestral—become home / of the earth.masters, M.F.A., English -- University of Idaho - College of Graduate Studies, 2018-0
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
- …
