Marvelous Autocrats

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra
Keyword(s):  
Magical Realism ◽  
Global South ◽  
South Atlantic ◽  
Narrative Form ◽  
The South ◽  
Textual Features ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This essay shows how the idea of the South Atlantic as a space of dictatorships and banana republics was contested on the ground by literary experimentation and transoceanic influence. Armillas- Tiseyra uses Sony Labou Tansi’s La vie et demie (Life and a Half 1979) as an example of a dictator novel, a genre that spans the Global South. Armillas-Tiseyra argues for the term “constellation” to be used in place of “magical realism” to classify the genre. “Constellation” here serves as a figure both for the relationship of individual texts or textual features to each other (a loose configuration or grouping) and for a mode of comparison that proceeds by juxtaposition and collage rather than more rigid hierarchical systematization. The allows Armillas-Tiseyra to approach and grapple with the difficult relationship between critique and narrative form.

Tectono-magmatic reactivation of Téfidet Cretaceous trough during Cenozoic (Aïr, Niger)

2016 ◽  
Vol 187 (2) ◽  
pp. 73-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yacouba Ahmed ◽  
Moussa Konaté ◽  
Moussa Harouna
Keyword(s):  
Volcanic Activity ◽  
Upper Jurassic ◽  
South Atlantic ◽  
The South ◽  
Lake Chad ◽  
Pan African ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Extension Period

AbstractThe Téfidet trough (eastern Niger) belongs to the Ténéré megasystem set of Cretaceous rifts N130°E to N170°E oriented, corresponding to the direction of the Lake Chad-Hoggar tectonic axis.The study of the relationship between the structure of the trough and alkaline fissural volcanism that developed there from the Oligocene to Plio-Quaternary shows the uniqueness of the Téfidet trough compared to the neighboring contemporary volcanic areas of Hoggar, Cameroon, and southern Aïr.The tectono-magmatic reactivation of the Cretaceous Téfidet trough developed in two steps: – a period contemporaneous with the Tuareg shield bulging (Aïr, Hoggar, Iforas);– a subsequent extension period generally N060°E, which has persisted since the opening of the South Atlantic (upper Jurassic to Plio-Quaternary).The fissural volcanism, due to the reactivation of Pan African and Cretaceous faults evolved concomitantly with the N060°E extension (syn-magmatic micro-fractures with basaltic filling), in several steps, from Oligocene to Plio-Quaternary.This study highlights the existence of periods of quietness and recovery of volcanic activity, for which two assumptions can be made: – no enough absolute datings,– apolyphased extension of the rift.The latter hypothesis seems to be supported by three periods of volcanic quietness, 28–24 m.y., 20–14 m.y. and 8–5 m.y., observed in the northern and the southern Aïr, Gréboun and Todgha, respectively.

Unraveling the South African Breast Cancer Story: The Relationship of Patients, Delay to Diagnosis, and Tumor Biology With Stage at Presentation in an Urban Setting

2019 ◽  
Vol 235 ◽  
pp. 181-189
Author(s):  
Sarah Rayne ◽  
Kathryn Schnippel ◽  
Surbhi Grover ◽  
Kirstin Fearnhead ◽  
Deirdre Kruger ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
South African ◽  
Tumor Biology ◽  
Urban Setting ◽  
The South ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

scholarly journals Correlation between Metadiscourse, Lexical Complexity, Readability and Writing Performance in EFL University Students’ Research-based Essays

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (S1-May) ◽  
pp. 238-254
Author(s):  
Ali Erarslan
Keyword(s):  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Academic Vocabulary ◽  
Writing Quality ◽  
Lexical Diversity ◽  
Writing Performance ◽  
Statistical Measures ◽  
Textual Features ◽  
Lexical Density ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Metadiscourse is a tool for writers to guide and interact with readers through texts. Yet in most student texts, one of the points lacking is the interaction between writers and readers. In this study, frequency and type of interactive and interactional metadiscourse features were explored via students’ research-based essays based on Hyland’s metadiscourse taxonomy. Additionally, the students’ English Vocabulary Profile (EVP), lexical diversity, lexical density, and readability features of the texts in the corpus were scrutinized, which serve as an indicator of writing quality. Finally, the relationship of metadiscourse use with students’ writing performance, lexical diversity, lexical density, and readability was explored through statistical measures. Findings show that following explicit metadiscourse instruction, students’ research-based essays included more interactive metadiscourse than interactional metadiscourse, indicating that the students were dealing with more textual features, such as coherence, than interactional metadiscourse. Apart from findings regarding EVP such as lexical diversity, lexical density, and readability features, a positive relationship was explored between metadiscourse use and writing performance, lexical components, and textual features. It is concluded that metadiscourse should be integrated into the writing syllabus since it has a positive relationship with students’ use of academic vocabulary in their essays.

The Sea of International Politics

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph R. Slaughter ◽  
Kerry Bystrom
Keyword(s):  
Atlantic World ◽  
International Politics ◽  
Political Engagement ◽  
Global South ◽  
Geographic Region ◽  
South Atlantic ◽  
The South ◽  
Atlantic Rim ◽  
Different Parts ◽  
The Way

Responding to the way the Southern parts of the Atlantic have historically been obscured in conceptions of the Atlantic world and through the critical oceanic studies concepts of fluidity, solvency, and drift, this chapter serves as a critical introduction to the South Atlantic. Beginning with a rereading of the Atlantic Charter, it poses the South Atlantic both as a material geographic region (something along the lines of a South Atlantic Rim) and as a set of largely unfulfilled visions—including those of anti-imperial solidarity and resistance generated through imaginative and political engagement from different parts of the Global South with the Atlantic world. It also reflects on the conditions under which something called the “Global South Atlantic” could come into being and the modes of historical, cultural, and literary comparison by which a multilingual and multinational region might be grasped.

Linking the Atlantic and Indian Oceans: Asian textiles, Spanish silver, global capital, and the financing of the Portuguese–Brazilian slave trade (c.1760–1808)

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-38
Author(s):  
J. Bohorquez
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Capital Flows ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
Global South ◽  
South Atlantic ◽  
Global Perspective ◽  
Atlantic History ◽  
The South ◽  
Global Capital ◽  
Institutional Foundations

AbstractThis article aims to analyse some of the multilateral flows of capital that contributed to weaving a Global South during the second half of the eighteenth century. It specifically revisits the functioning and financing of the Portuguese slave trade from a global perspective, and offers insights for assessing older frameworks that explain it, in either triangular or bilateral terms. The article argues that the Portuguese slave traffic should be liberated from the South Atlantic borders to which it has been confined. In so doing, it offers an Atlantic history in a global perspective, disclosing the connections between the Atlantic and Indian oceans. Putting the financing of the slave trade into a larger global perspective helps to more accurately explain how it actually operated in terms of the organization of trade. When the financial and institutional foundations of Asian and African trade are analysed together, it becomes evident that they were part of larger networks and capital flows, both westwards and eastwards, which were not just framed imperially or locally.

scholarly journals XXVI.—On the Fossil Flora of the South Wales Coal Field, and the Relationship of its Strata to the Somerset and Bristol Coal Field

1895 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 565-614 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Kidston
Keyword(s):  
Relative Position ◽  
The Other ◽  
Fossil Flora ◽  
Coal Field ◽  
The South ◽  
White Ash ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Coal Measures ◽  
The Relationship

The Coal Measures of the South Wales Coal Field fall into three well-marked divisions:—I. The Upper Pennant or Upper Penllergare Series.II. The Lower Pennant Series.III. The White Ash Series.In 1885 I paid a visit to this Coal Field, with the object of studying its Fossil Flora, hoping by this means to ascertain the relative position of the Welsh Coal Measures to those of the other Coal Fields of Britain.

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