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Nella lingua dei cigni: fra Russia, Alaska e Giappone, la scrittura errante di Ōba Minako
No full textŌba Minako è considerata una pioniera della letteratura femminile della migrazione in Giappone. La sua scrittura infatti sembra nascere dalla dissoluzione e dal superamento dei confini geografico-spaziali in una sorta di “terzo spazio”, trans-culturale, immaginato, continuamente ripensato e ridiscusso. Confine, bordo, passaggio, soglia, ponte: un luogo dove, secondo la teoria della location riformulata negli anni Novanta da Caren Kaplan, le donne, acquisito lo sguardo e la coscienza dell’outsider, del migrante, arrivano a decostruire la propria stessa cultura. Il che si traduce in una molteplicità prospettica e in letture del sé e dell’altro che problematizzano radicalmente non solo – come è ovvio – i concetti di identità e autenticità, ma anche le coppie binarie margine/centro, identità/differenza, insider/outsider.
I personaggi di Ōba spesso provengono da un contesto culturale e sociale indefinito, fluido, caotico, a partire dal quale riescono a forgiare identità, personalità e nuovi sistemi di valori. Questo li rende liberi di fluttuare in un mondo sensibile a qualsiasi influenza culturale, ma non ingessato in rigide regole sociali e linguistiche. L’autrice ritorna insistentemente su questo concetto, nei suoi racconti la forma più autentica di comunicazione è, solitamente, quella che avviene in un mondo in bilico tra realtà e fantasia. Come in "Salmonberry Bay", dove le tre protagoniste, Nina, Olga e Yuri – rispettivamente due emigrate russe e una giapponese – si sentono, quando sono insieme, trasformate in tre cigni; e provano la strana sensazione di parlare parole nuove, che non riescono più a capire se umane o di cigno. E ridono. Nina ha dato alla luce tre figlie, Olga Irina e Masha, e il motivo delle ‘tre sorelle’ riecheggia lungo tutta la narrazione, quasi ossessivo. Il sapiente gioco di associazioni scivola da "Le tre sorelle" di Chechov alle ‘Three sisters’, le vette montuose che, quasi rese umane, si stagliano composte e tranquille, e nel gioco che sull’onda del movimento fra culture, tempi, luoghi decostruisce confini e certezze, l’esperienza di uno spazio altro diventa lo strumento attraverso il quale la scrittrice è in grado di medi(t)are con ironico disincanto la cultura del proprio paese d’origine, e quindi di scardinare stereotipi, pregiudizi, paradigmi.Ōba Minako is considered a pioneer of women's literature of migration in Japan. Her poetic writing seems to originate from the dissolution of geographical and spatial boundaries which results in a sort of trans-culturaland imagined "third space": a place where, according to Caren Kaplan, women succeed in deconstructing their own culture and the concepts of identity and authenticity, but also the binary pairs margin / center, identity / difference, insider / outsider .
Ōba's characters often come from a fluid cultural context with allow them to forge new identities and new value systems. The author returns insistently on this concept, and in her stories the most authentic form of communication is usually the one that takes place in a world floating between reality and fantasy. As in "Salmonberry Bay", where the three protagonists, Nina, Olga and Yuri - respectively from Russia and from Japan - feel themselves transformed into three swans speaking new words - you cannot tell whether human or swan. And they laugh. Nina gave birth to three daughters, Olga Irina and Masha, and the left-motiv of the 'three sisters' resonates throughout the narrative, almost obsessive. The never-ending shifting between cultures, times, places deconstructs borders and values, and the experience of another space becomes the instrument through which the writer is able to contemplate with ironic disenchantment her culture, and then to undermine stereotypes, prejudices, paradigms
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
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
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Giapponeserie. Immagini dal Sol Levante nella cultura pop italiana.
No full textIl saggio descrive le traiettorie che la rappresentazione della cultura giapponese ha percorso all'interno del contesto della cultura pop italiana, tra cinema, musica, fumetto
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