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Muddy points of entanglements: transglocal fictions in Africa and the diaspora
Get PDF"""Muddy Points of Entanglements: Transglocal Fictions in Africa and the Diaspora responds to the need to resist the tendency of Western theorizing to universalize European genres by setting them as standards against which the hybridity of post-colonial literary forms is measured. In order to de-center the location of their European arch-genre in the study of autobiographical fictions in Africa and the diaspora, I claim that a coinage of a new genre is necessary. This gesture not only ensures an effective decolonization of the concept of genre in the scholarship on post-colonial literatures but also involves a perspectival adjustment to the notion of hybridity. As this project requires exploring a wider dimension of hybridity beyond colonial binary paradigms, I reroute the location of generic hybridity within the framework of multiple “post-colonial world[s] of global contacts.” I argue that read in concert, post-colonial autobiographical fictions in Africa and its diaspora by women writers craft what I call “transglocal fiction” as a post-colonial genre that sheds light on the reshaping of the post-colonial onto a new spatial framework beyond binary formulations such as the colonizer/the colonized, the national/the transnational and the local/the global."Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2019-08-01The student, Hapsatou Wane, accepted the attached license on 2017-05-16 at 16:46.The student, Hapsatou Wane, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2017-05-16 at 20:05.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2017-05-19 at 13:50.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #11158 on 2017-09-29 at 11:13:06Made available in DSpace on 2017-09-29T16:39:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3
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Decolonizing French: Afrophonics in Ken Bugul’s Aller et retour (2013)
Get PDFThis article explores the innovative language strategies employed by Senegalese writer Ken Bugul in her novel Aller et retour to construct a dynamic and interconnected linguistic landscape that challenges fixed language boundaries. Ken Bugul\u27s langue fabriquée combines elements of French, Wolof, and English, reflecting a transglocal dimension that embodies the essence of afrophonics—a poetics of resistance that empowers local cultures in a globalized context. Through a detailed analysis of Ken Bugul\u27s linguistic choices, including the use of quotation marks, footnotes, and arbitrary transcription, the study reveals how she creates a language that defies categorization and decolonizes French without resorting to conventional diglossia or creolization. Drawing on Edouard Glissant\u27s errant aesthetics, Ken Bugul\u27s fluid and rhythmic writing mirrors the interconnectedness of cultures and languages, emphasizing the rhizomatic roots of identity. By crafting a new language that transcends national and historical boundaries, Bugul\u27s langue fabriquée serves as a powerful form of resistance, challenging dominant narratives and offering new possibilities for the future of global literature
Transglocal Fictions: Archetypal Detours in Maryse Condé\u27s Hérémakhonon, en attendant le bonheur (1988)
No full textIn Hérémakhonon,en attendant le bonheur, Guadeloupian writer Condé retraces the journey of Véronica Mercier, a Guadeloupian teacher of philosophy who abruptly decides to go to an unnamed African country after having spent nine years in France. Calling her migration to Africa “[une] tragique erreur [“a tragic mistake,”] tragique erreur [“a tragic mistake,” Véronica ultimately decides to go back to France. The fact that Véronica challenges the myth of the return to Africa in the constitution of an African diasporic self has been treated at length by numerous scholars. Yet, in order to deal with the significance of Véronica’s voyage to Africa in her quest of identity, I borrow Edouard Glissant’s concept of “détour.”. My reading of Hérémakhonon differs from that of previous scholars who while engaging with various forms of return interpreted those as unproductive forms of detours. I argue that Véronica’s trajectory is a productive model of detour that led to a space characterized by possibilities of survival and resistance against the “coloniality of power.” In doing so, my objective is to establish that Hérémakhonon should be read as a narrative of archetypal detours developed into productive forms of resistance. Hérémakhonon not only creates new avenues in reexamining the assumed connections between Africa and its diaspora but also develops narrative strategies which, at the intertextual and paratextual levels, perform textual modes of detours shaping transglocal fiction as a literary model of resistance
Decolonizing French: Afrophonics in Ken Bugul’s Aller et retour (2013)
No full textHow to decolonize French? Self-labelled Afropean writer Léonora Miano offers “l’afrophonie” as a transversal and transnational language resisting the principle of colonial domination embodied in the French language and the concept of La Francophonie. One can argue that Miano’s “afrophonie” akin to Edouard Glissant’s “poetics of relation” and Ngugi Wa Thiong’os “globalectics” calls for decolonial languages acting as the depositaries of shared memories entangled in the histories of Africa and the diaspora. In that sense, Miano calls for the liberation of African and diaspora literatures in French from the institutional yoke of “la Francophonie.” While comparatively unpacking Miano’s concept of “afrophonie” as a set of strategies enunciating the creative transgressive impulse of Sub-Saharans and Afro-descendants, this paper claims that what Miano is offering is a multi-perspectival reading of texts that would take into account the interconnectedness and the entanglements of shared histories of colonialism beyond La Francophonie. In doing so, I propose to read Ken Bugul’s Aller et retour (2013) afrophonically . This paper seeks to highlight how the Senegalese writer strategically parallels a form of “linguistic errancy” with the incessant back and forth movements of Bigué and Ngoné, two Senegalese women who wander the streets of Dakar, Senegal in the 1980s. I argue that Bugul draws a linguistic arabesque weaving transversally and transgressively local and global languages and notions of agencies in fashioning new identities. The objective of this paper is to offer an example of how to read “la parole afrophonique” as a form of postcolonial language transgressing the idea of a Francophone literature, thus decolonizing French
Women in Conflict: Constructing Identity in the Twentieth Century During Dictatorship and War
No full textPresentation given at the A Moveable Feast Lecture Series.
Drawing from distinct historical moments and settings, Comparative Literature Assistant Professor Hapsatou Wane and History Associate Professor Allison Scardino Belzer will explore how women writers respond to political and military conflict. Wane will evaluate how Afro-Brazilian women use stories of insurrection to represent the muddy entanglements of their identities. In particular, she will examine the role memories of slavery, colonialism and military dictatorship play in the construction of black selfhood. Belzer will analyze how women living at the Italian front responded to the violence they experienced during the First World War. She will emphasize how, as civilians and volunteer medical personnel, these women resisted military occupation and promoted Italian patriotism, all the while redefining what femininity could mean in the early 20th century. Wane holds a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Belzer has a Ph.D. from Emory University
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
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
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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