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  • exploring cities in crime significant concordance and co occurrence in quantitative Literary Analysis
    North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2013
    Co-Authors: Janneke Rauscher, Leonard Swiezinski, Martin Riedl, Chris Biemann
    Abstract:

    We present CoocViewer, a graphical Analysis tool for the purpose of quantitative Literary Analysis, and demonstrate its use on a corpus of crime novels. The tool displays words, their significant co-occurrences, and contains a new visualization for significant concordances. Contexts of words and co-occurrences can be displayed. After reviewing previous research and current challenges in the newly emerging field of quantitative Literary research, we demonstrate how CoocViewer allows comparative research on Literary corpora in a project-specific study, and how we can confirm or enhance our hypotheses through quantitative Literary Analysis.

  • CLfL@NAACL-HLT - Exploring Cities in Crime: Significant Concordance and Co-occurrence in Quantitative Literary Analysis
    2013
    Co-Authors: Janneke Rauscher, Leonard Swiezinski, Martin Riedl, Chris Biemann
    Abstract:

    We present CoocViewer, a graphical Analysis tool for the purpose of quantitative Literary Analysis, and demonstrate its use on a corpus of crime novels. The tool displays words, their significant co-occurrences, and contains a new visualization for significant concordances. Contexts of words and co-occurrences can be displayed. After reviewing previous research and current challenges in the newly emerging field of quantitative Literary research, we demonstrate how CoocViewer allows comparative research on Literary corpora in a project-specific study, and how we can confirm or enhance our hypotheses through quantitative Literary Analysis.

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Janneke Rauscher - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • exploring cities in crime significant concordance and co occurrence in quantitative Literary Analysis
    North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2013
    Co-Authors: Janneke Rauscher, Leonard Swiezinski, Martin Riedl, Chris Biemann
    Abstract:

    We present CoocViewer, a graphical Analysis tool for the purpose of quantitative Literary Analysis, and demonstrate its use on a corpus of crime novels. The tool displays words, their significant co-occurrences, and contains a new visualization for significant concordances. Contexts of words and co-occurrences can be displayed. After reviewing previous research and current challenges in the newly emerging field of quantitative Literary research, we demonstrate how CoocViewer allows comparative research on Literary corpora in a project-specific study, and how we can confirm or enhance our hypotheses through quantitative Literary Analysis.

  • CLfL@NAACL-HLT - Exploring Cities in Crime: Significant Concordance and Co-occurrence in Quantitative Literary Analysis
    2013
    Co-Authors: Janneke Rauscher, Leonard Swiezinski, Martin Riedl, Chris Biemann
    Abstract:

    We present CoocViewer, a graphical Analysis tool for the purpose of quantitative Literary Analysis, and demonstrate its use on a corpus of crime novels. The tool displays words, their significant co-occurrences, and contains a new visualization for significant concordances. Contexts of words and co-occurrences can be displayed. After reviewing previous research and current challenges in the newly emerging field of quantitative Literary research, we demonstrate how CoocViewer allows comparative research on Literary corpora in a project-specific study, and how we can confirm or enhance our hypotheses through quantitative Literary Analysis.

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  • 'Thinking your journal unimportant': a feminist Literary Analysis of selected excerpts from Lady Anne Barnard's Cape diaries
    New contree: a journal of historical and human sciences for Southern Africa, 2020
    Co-Authors: Jessica Murray
    Abstract:

    This article offers a feminist Literary Analysis of selected excerpts from the diaries that Lady Anne Barnard wrote during her stay at the Cape Colony from 1797 until 1802. Lady Anne was, by all accounts, an extremely productive writer and correspondent who left behind a wealth of material at the time of her death on 6 May 1825. The article argues that diaries can provide valuable insights about gendered constructions at different historical moments and about how individual women navigated such gendered structures in their daily lives. The textual specificities of diaries require that researchers adjust our reading strategies to meet the demands of these texts. Lady Anne emerges as a complex subject who is both subversive and constrained in her negotiations with gendered constructions of “proper” female roles and behaviour. Even as she challenges these constructions, she also appears to have internalized them, at least partly.

  • The Role of Shame in the Construction of Victim Narratives: A Feminist Literary Analysis of Antjie Krog?s Oeuvre
    Proceedings of the 39th International Academic Conference Amsterdam, 2020
    Co-Authors: Jessica Murray
    Abstract:

    This paper will explore a relatively under researched aspect of victim narratives, namely the role that shame in general, and gendered shame in particular, plays in the construction of these narratives. Although Antjie Krog?s Country of my Skull has received wide local and international attention, the dynamics of shame demand further scholarly attention. I will offer a feminist Literary Analysis of Krog?s text, in addition to her A Change of Tongue, Begging to be Black and There was this Goat (co-written by Nosisi Mpolweni and Kopano Ratele), through a theoretical rubric of shame studies. In the South African context, victim narratives have become part of the public consciousness through the post-apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission Hearings. In the contemporary South African milieu, the gendered and racialized female body is more susceptible to violence than ever before and the emergent victim narratives of women thus deserve additional scholarly scrutiny. It has become a widely accepted reality that gender violence remains severely underreported and women?s victim narratives are thus particularly vulnerable to silencing and elision from public discourses. The very nature of shame, with its impulse to shrink, hide and remain silent, makes this a phenomenon that shapes victim narratives in particularly insidious ways. In order to expose the dynamics of shame and their effects on the construction of victim narratives, I turn to Literary texts as these provide a safe space from which to explore issues that are often immensely painful and traumatizing to the women who have been victimized. The prevalence of sexual violence in South Africa, with some of the highest rates of rape in the world, results in fiction writers often attempting to utilize the imaginative space of Literary texts to grapple with this uncomfortable social reality. As a feminist scholar, I argue that these texts offer valuable analytical opportunities and I will explore Krog?s oeuvre in order to ascertain the role that shame plays in the construction of South African victim narratives. My Analysis will demonstrate that assumptions about ?proper? feminine traits and behaviour are so deeply embedded that shame about perceived deviation from these normative standards goes to the very heart of the construction of victim narratives by both the female characters themselves and the larger societies in which they are located.

  • 'I was a Girl of my Time': A feminist Literary Analysis of representations of time and gender in selected contemporary South African fiction by women
    Literator, 2017
    Co-Authors: Jessica Murray
    Abstract:

    This article offers a feminist Literary Analysis of selected contemporary South African texts by women writers in order to explore how they represent female characters’ engagement with conventional understandings of time and its chronological and linear progression. These engagements are represented as being particularly fraught for women characters as they find themselves constrained by various temporally located constructions of femininity even as they attempt to heed the temporally dislocated voices of gendered trauma that consistently speak through their bodies. In this article, my focus will be on Bridget Pitt’s novel, Notes from the Lost Property Department ( 2015 ), Elleke Boehmer’s The Shouting in the Dark ( 2015 ) and Mohale Mashigo’s The Yearning ( 2016 ). Despite frequent references to the importance of temporality in making sense of the experiences of the female protagonists, there has been a dearth of scholarly attention to the complexities of the intersections between gender, time and trauma in contemporary South African fiction by women. While gender violence and trauma are topics that have received extensive critical scrutiny in South African Literary studies, this article demonstrates that the inclusion of temporality in the analytical framework enables a richer and more nuanced reading of the experiences of the female characters in the selected texts.

  • Manifestations of Shame at the Intersections of Gender, Sexuality, Race and Class: A Feminist Literary Analysis of Dominique Botha’s Valsrivier
    Journal of Literary Studies, 2016
    Co-Authors: Jessica Murray
    Abstract:

    This article offers a feminist Literary Analysis of the representation of shame in Dominique Botha’s Valsrivier and it demonstrates how shame manifests itself in the spaces where gender, sexuality,...

  • constructions of gender in contemporary south african crime fiction a feminist Literary Analysis of the novels of angela makholwa
    English Studies in Africa, 2016
    Co-Authors: Jessica Murray
    Abstract:

    This article offers a feminist Literary Analysis of Angela Makholwa’s two crime novels, Red Ink (2007) and Black Widow Society (2013), in order to explore how a black female author represents gendered constructions of identity and gender violence in the genre of crime fiction. Over the last few decades, crime fiction has received increased scholarly attention in academic circles, both locally and abroad. In the South African context, scholars have tended to focus their analytical gaze on a few, well-known and established crime writers. I seek to extend the critical debate about South African crime writing by turning my attention to the work of a black female crime writer. Although Makholwa’s novels make a number of observations about the salience of race in the South African milieu, this Analysis focuses on her fictional representations of contemporary gender assumptions and relations. In particular, I consider how her Literary representations of gender violence invite readers to trace the violence back t...