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"""The Everyday Affective Life of Racism"": Forms of Racial Melancholia in Early Asian American Literature"
Get PDFIn “‘The Everyday Affective Life of Racism’: Forms of Racial Melancholia in Early Asian American Literature,” I summon the concept of racial melancholia put forth by Anne Anlin Cheng, David Eng, and Shinhee Han as a springboard, expanding their definitions by closely reading the forms of racial melancholia and ultimately arguing that racial melancholia is an everyday, stoic, weakly intentional, past-oriented, and collective affect. Specifically, I study melancholic feelings in early Asian American texts marked by racial suffering and contend that racial pain emerges in literary forms, such as repetition, understatement, intertextuality, and the motif of the divided self. My dissertation distinguishes itself from earlier works that present racial melancholia as a psychoanalytic concept and instead draws on conceptions of affect, particularly from cultural studies critics such as Ann Cvetkovich, Teresa Brennan, and Sara Ahmed. I contend that the forms of this early, supposedly assimilationist Asian American writing reveal alternative ways of being Asian American and show strategies that Viet Thanh Nguyen calls flexible and negotiative. Chapter 1 focuses on Winnifred Eaton’s appropriation of John Luther Long’s story “Madame Butterfly.” I contend that Eaton’s repetition of the Madame Butterfly story shows not only her inability to let go of the Butterfly plot but also a will to recover from it through a consciously pursued practice of writing that fosters the agency of Asian American subjects. In chapter 2, I uncover the ordinariness of racial melancholia as it materializes in silence and its counterpart, understatement. Using Sianne Ngai’s definition of tone, the chapter focuses on how an understated tone develops through the mode of mimesis, where narrators forego self-exposure and deemphasize the self that experiences the event. By using an understated tone, Sone and Wong maintain their narratives’ dignity and control. Delving into Cheng, Eng, and Han’s definitions of racial melancholia, chapter 3, highlights the motif of the divided self and reads Ichiro’s understated resistance through Sara Ahmed’s concept of the affect alien. The two warring ideals within Ichiro—represented by Ichiro’s mother and Kenji—disintegrate by the end of the novel when Ichiro rejects the melancholia of his mother as well as the fantasy of national reconciliation put forth by the affective community of his friends. I argue that Ichiro stands emphatically alone as an affect alien who discards the telos of happiness. Chapter 4 dramatizes the texture of racial melancholia through the affect of han, a collective feeling of suffering rooted in Korean culture. Pointing out Kang’s use of Romantic literature, I contend that Kang’s novels are Romantically-inflected Modernist novels that exemplify han. Defining han, with Park Kyong-ni, as a contradictory emotion of sadness and hope, tragedy and comedy, and the present and the future, I interpret han as a Romantic and willful affect that conflates and collapses opposite meanings to overcome dejection. The allusions to Romantic literature in Kang’s novels not only convey racially melancholic feelings but also control and sublimate them.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2023-08-01The student, Jane Im, accepted the attached license on 2021-07-16 at 08:34.The student, Jane Im, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2021-07-16 at 08:35.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2021-07-16 at 11:17.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #16706 on 2022-01-12 at 13:03:26Made available in DSpace on 2022-01-12T22:51:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Early Lost: Child Death and Separation in Nineteenth-Century American Women's Writing
No full text166 pagesEarly Lost examines scenes of child death and separation in nineteenth-century American Women’s writing, with an emphasis on texts by abolitionist writers in the antebellum period. Drawing on studies of print culture and theorists of the “temporal turn,” I explore the challenges and pitfalls of incorporating child death into a national narrative of progress. In particular, Early Lost concentrates on the bereaved mother figure. Adopting the phrase “regulation” from Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin to articulate the disciplinary processes embedded in sentimental scripts of motherhood and grief, Early Lost discusses texts by women which linger in the temporal disorder of bereavement through scenes of suspension, disjunction, and delay. This dissertation begins its study of unregulated feeling with Margaret Garner’s infanticide as told in Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s “The Slave Mother: A Tale of the Ohio.” Through a consideration of Harper’s Romantic postures and contributions to the ballad form, this chapter argues that Harper’s uses of voice and repetition stage a resistance against sentimental modes of confession and sympathy. Early Lost continues with a reading of Lydia Maria Child’s Letters from New York and Fact and Fiction, which examine the violence the legal system enacts on mothers and the challenges of rehabilitating fallen women. This chapter tracks the use of the dash in works by Child, Charles Dickens, and Susanna Rowson to examine how syntactic delays mark death, discipline, and pause in narratives of social and physical death. Finally, the third chapter reads the friendship albums of Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society member Mary Anne Dickerson and the collaborative memorialization of Dickerson’s son William in its pages.This chapter argues that the entries from Dickerson, her teacher, and her family worked together to create a multitemporal text that captures the complex temporality of mourning. The resulting portrait of Black matrilineality critiques the exclusion of Black children and women from sentimental ideals of childhood and womanhood. Early Lost contends that the friction between popular notions of motherly grief and the experiences of bereaved parents was not rare in the nineteenth century, but constant. Each of these texts study the conversion of a real woman’s story into text, highlighting the personal, social, and political implications of that writing or recording process.2027-06-1
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
Signifying against antiblackness: Black Rhetoric in early African American writing
Get PDFMy dissertation, Signifying Against Antiblackness: Black Rhetoric in Early African American Writing, theorizes “Black Rhetoric” as a literary and theoretical tradition, distinct from the Anglo-American canon, that interrogates language as an apparatus of power. Through sermons, political pamphlets, press editorials, and life narratives, antebellum Black Rhetoricians such as David Walker, Adam Carman, William Whipper, and Harriet Wilson study how language can be used to mask antiblack violence. Each chapter balances two argumentative objectives: to demonstrate that Black Rhetoric produces knowledge about the relationship between language and antiblackness, and to show how Black Rhetoric is an active practice that intervenes in the masking protocols of antiblackness through argumentation, grammar, typography, sentence structuring, historiography, typology, characterization, and structural assembly, all of which stage the ontological contestation over meaning.
This project draws on Hortense Spillers’s description of “American Grammar” as the “dominant symbolic activity,” an order of meaning wherein Black beings are recognizable only as that which is inhuman (or non-human). This order of meaning shapes the antebellum discursive context where seemingly diverse white discourses repress relations of power and enactments of violence in order to naturalize black inferiority. Black Rhetoric, by contrast, explicitly articulates the racist psychic and material investments that bond transnational power sectors to enslavement and other forms of antiblack violence. As such, Black Rhetoric interrogates how our behaviors are linguistically fabricated and directed, thereby rupturing American Grammar.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2022-08-01The student, Samantha Plasencia, accepted the attached license on 2020-07-08 at 17:38.The student, Samantha Plasencia, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2020-07-08 at 17:50.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2020-07-15 at 07:17.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #15533 on 2020-10-02 at 15:49:57Made available in DSpace on 2020-10-07T22:49:49Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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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
Anglophone Chinese modernity,1860-1910
Get PDFOn September 6, 1899, in response to the looming threat foreign powers posed to American trade agreements with China, Secretary of State John Hay enunciated the first “Open Door Policy.” It proposed to keep China open to trade with all countries on an equal basis and declared U.S. support for a non-colonized and independent China. Despite Hay’s best effort, China struggled to maintain its territorial integrity from foreign control. The country faced imperial threats from the British and the American in the late days of the Manchu-ruled late Qing, anti-foreign revolts during the Boxer Rebellion, and domestic struggles between the bourgeois reformers and the traditional doctrines of the Confucian school that accumulated in the Hundred Days’ Reform of imperial edicts in the Reform Movement of the 1898. The core issue anchoring these conflicts remains the existential question of what it means to be part of China and to be Chinese? Search for the “self” and guominxing (national character) is key to understanding one’s roots, purpose, and allegiance to a sovereign state. But in an increasingly transient world, monolithic identification appears difficult. Without resorting to a homogenous China-based national literary tradition and dialogue, this dissertation continues the ongoing critical debate on “Sinophone” in China Studies, a coinage in English that denotes “Sinitic-language speaking” written on the margins of “China and Chineseness,” has potentially confronted the hegemony of China-centric studies.
My project offers an alternative perspective on Chinese literary modernity and its historical conditions, conceptual presuppositions, theoretical underpinnings, and literariness as defined by Anglophone subjects who lived a cross-national existence between China and the United States. I argue that anti-writing as an American literary occurrence produced four types of realism—temporal geography, object(ive) materiality, liberal realist strategy, and apocalyptic ecology. These Anglophone realist typologies, defying a uniform definition of China, defined the country’s multiple modernities. Instead of focusing on Sinophone, I contend that an American literary construct appropriated by Anglophone transpacific subjects characterized China’s break from monarchial tradition. The four types of realism, permeated with subversive realist techniques, produced an alternative life-writing formula that transgressed into projects that defined China’s multiple beginnings in modernity. These anti-writings were concerned with, and depended on, the reality they observed and the politics they propagated and campaigned against – politicking from within. The cross-national figures that I examine used the autobiographical genre to observe the Chinese civilization and comment on the politics between China and the United States, demonstrating that the China center is continuously threatened to become the new margin by the Anglophone world. Insofar as the realist typologies created a manifesto of China’s political struggle towards reform, diplomatic practices abroad, spiritual reliance on the Christian enterprise, and a project of realism written by Anglophone “others” who defined China in modernity.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2017-12-01The student, Xiao Di Tong, accepted the attached license on 2015-11-16 at 09:22.The student, Xiao Di Tong, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2015-11-16 at 09:23.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2015-11-19 at 11:54.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #8789 on 2016-03-02 at 14:13:07Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-02T21:06:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Anglophone Chinese modernity,1860-1910
No full textOn September 6, 1899, in response to the looming threat foreign powers posed to American trade agreements with China, Secretary of State John Hay enunciated the first “Open Door Policy.” It proposed to keep China open to trade with all countries on an equal basis and declared U.S. support for a non-colonized and independent China. Despite Hay’s best effort, China struggled to maintain its territorial integrity from foreign control. The country faced imperial threats from the British and the American in the late days of the Manchu-ruled late Qing, anti-foreign revolts during the Boxer Rebellion, and domestic struggles between the bourgeois reformers and the traditional doctrines of the Confucian school that accumulated in the Hundred Days’ Reform of imperial edicts in the Reform Movement of the 1898. The core issue anchoring these conflicts remains the existential question of what it means to be part of China and to be Chinese? Search for the “self” and guominxing (national character) is key to understanding one’s roots, purpose, and allegiance to a sovereign state. But in an increasingly transient world, monolithic identification appears difficult. Without resorting to a homogenous China-based national literary tradition and dialogue, this dissertation continues the ongoing critical debate on “Sinophone” in China Studies, a coinage in English that denotes “Sinitic-language speaking” written on the margins of “China and Chineseness,” has potentially confronted the hegemony of China-centric studies.
My project offers an alternative perspective on Chinese literary modernity and its historical conditions, conceptual presuppositions, theoretical underpinnings, and literariness as defined by Anglophone subjects who lived a cross-national existence between China and the United States. I argue that anti-writing as an American literary occurrence produced four types of realism—temporal geography, object(ive) materiality, liberal realist strategy, and apocalyptic ecology. These Anglophone realist typologies, defying a uniform definition of China, defined the country’s multiple modernities. Instead of focusing on Sinophone, I contend that an American literary construct appropriated by Anglophone transpacific subjects characterized China’s break from monarchial tradition. The four types of realism, permeated with subversive realist techniques, produced an alternative life-writing formula that transgressed into projects that defined China’s multiple beginnings in modernity. These anti-writings were concerned with, and depended on, the reality they observed and the politics they propagated and campaigned against – politicking from within. The cross-national figures that I examine used the autobiographical genre to observe the Chinese civilization and comment on the politics between China and the United States, demonstrating that the China center is continuously threatened to become the new margin by the Anglophone world. Insofar as the realist typologies created a manifesto of China’s political struggle towards reform, diplomatic practices abroad, spiritual reliance on the Christian enterprise, and a project of realism written by Anglophone “others” who defined China in modernity
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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