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In Conversation with Velma Pollard
Get PDFIn Conversation with Velma Pollard(Spring 2018)by Simona Bertacc
Velma Pollard Interview, 9/23/2004
No full textDaryl Cumber Dance interviews Velma Pollard, camera stays on Pollardhttps://commons.lib.jmu.edu/ffpc-2004/1009/thumbnail.jp
Identity and dislocation in Caribbean women's literature: a study of the writings of Velma Pollard
No full textJamaican-born Velma Pollard has been publishing poetry and short stories for nearly
thirty years. Her first poems appeared in the 1970s, her first volume of short stories in
1989, and her first novel in 1994. Despite this considerable literary output, in the evergrowing
critical literature on Caribbean women's writing Pollard's work has not attracted
any of the scholarly treatment accorded to other writers. Given this lack of critical
attention to Pollard's considerable body of work, this thesis aims to provide the first
detailed and contextualised study of her writings (excluding the majority of her poetry
and of her writings on linguistics), and to accord Pollard the recognition her work
deserves.
Chapter 1 of this thesis situates Pollard's writings in the context of Caribbean
(women's) literature, and writings on identity, dislocations and (Caribbean) migration. I
argue that Pollard's principal contribution to Caribbean literature is found in her
engagement with two main subjects, return migration and relationships (male-female and
female-female), within a wider context of debates on identity and dislocation.
Chapter 2 introduces Pollard's work by way of a general discussion of her novella
Karl, which won the Casa de las Americas literary award in 1992. I consider Karl to be
central to Pollard's work, not least because it features many of the themes explored by
her later writings, including her novel, Homestretch, which is the subject of Chapter 3.
Pollard's first novel, Homestretch, which was published in 1994, explores the themes
of identity and dislocation through the experiences of 'return migrants' and 'repeat
migrants' and their comparison of life in England, the United States and Jamaica. The
novel chronicles how these migrants come to reconnect with and accept their cultural
heritage.
In chapters 4 and 5 I discuss selected stories taken from Pollard's two collections
of short stories, Considering Woman ('Cages', 'My Sisters', 'My Mother', and 'Gran') and
from Karl and Other Stories ('A Night's Tale', 'Miss Chandra', 'Betsy Hyde', and 'Altamont
Jones'). In these stories Pollard explores male-female relationships and the lives of
several generations and a wide range of Caribbean women and men. Pollard utilises the
West Indian setting, speech, situations and conflicts in these stories to graphically
describe familiar Caribbean role models and to provide a narrative and literary
examination of the frustrations and conflicting desires of women in the region.
In my conclusion, I address the ethnographic quality and significance of her work,
and its contribution to an understanding of the Caribbean
A Conversation with Velma Pollard
Get PDFNoted poet, novelist, linguist, and educator, Velma Pollard was Visiting Professor of English at the University of Richmond in Richmond, Virginia, during the fall semester of 2001 when I conducted the following interview. John Martin, my graduate assistant at the time, assisted me in videotaping and transcribing our conversation, which took place in her cottage at the University on December 3, 2001
Review of Dread Talk: The Language of Rastafari by Velma Pollard
No full textPrieditis, Michelle. (2005). Review of Dread Talk: The Language of Rastafari by Velma Pollard. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/167817
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
Identity and dislocation in\ud Caribbean women's literature:\ud a study of the writings of\ud Velma Pollard
No full textJamaican-born Velma Pollard has been publishing poetry and short stories for nearly\ud
thirty years. Her first poems appeared in the 1970s, her first volume of short stories in\ud
1989, and her first novel in 1994. Despite this considerable literary output, in the evergrowing\ud
critical literature on Caribbean women's writing Pollard's work has not attracted\ud
any of the scholarly treatment accorded to other writers. Given this lack of critical\ud
attention to Pollard's considerable body of work, this thesis aims to provide the first\ud
detailed and contextualised study of her writings (excluding the majority of her poetry\ud
and of her writings on linguistics), and to accord Pollard the recognition her work\ud
deserves.\ud
Chapter 1 of this thesis situates Pollard's writings in the context of Caribbean\ud
(women's) literature, and writings on identity, dislocations and (Caribbean) migration. I\ud
argue that Pollard's principal contribution to Caribbean literature is found in her\ud
engagement with two main subjects, return migration and relationships (male-female and\ud
female-female), within a wider context of debates on identity and dislocation.\ud
Chapter 2 introduces Pollard's work by way of a general discussion of her novella\ud
Karl, which won the Casa de las Americas literary award in 1992. I consider Karl to be\ud
central to Pollard's work, not least because it features many of the themes explored by\ud
her later writings, including her novel, Homestretch, which is the subject of Chapter 3.\ud
Pollard's first novel, Homestretch, which was published in 1994, explores the themes\ud
of identity and dislocation through the experiences of 'return migrants' and 'repeat\ud
migrants' and their comparison of life in England, the United States and Jamaica. The\ud
novel chronicles how these migrants come to reconnect with and accept their cultural\ud
heritage.\ud
In chapters 4 and 5 I discuss selected stories taken from Pollard's two collections\ud
of short stories, Considering Woman ('Cages', 'My Sisters', 'My Mother', and 'Gran') and\ud
from Karl and Other Stories ('A Night's Tale', 'Miss Chandra', 'Betsy Hyde', and 'Altamont\ud
Jones'). In these stories Pollard explores male-female relationships and the lives of\ud
several generations and a wide range of Caribbean women and men. Pollard utilises the\ud
West Indian setting, speech, situations and conflicts in these stories to graphically\ud
describe familiar Caribbean role models and to provide a narrative and literary\ud
examination of the frustrations and conflicting desires of women in the region.\ud
In my conclusion, I address the ethnographic quality and significance of her work,\ud
and its contribution to an understanding of the Caribbean
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
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