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Building Library-Based Support Structures For Open Science, Henrik Karlstrøm, Ingrid Heggland Dec 2018

Building Library-Based Support Structures For Open Science, Henrik Karlstrøm, Ingrid Heggland

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Research institutions meet increasing demands for transparency, accountability, added value and reuse of all aspects of scientific production, from documenting the research process to sharing underlying data to open access to publications. Going beyond admirable slogans about openness there is a clear need for support infrastructures relating to the actual practice of Open Science – describing metadata, archiving datasets and publications and disseminating increasingly interdisciplinary research results. Research libraries, having always been stewards of research institutions’ collective knowledge and offering a variety of research support services, are in a unique position to offer future support for Open Science based on …

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Another Player In Citation Database: Are We Subscribing?, Yuyun W. Ishak Dec 2018

Another Player In Citation Database: Are We Subscribing?, Yuyun W. Ishak

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Digital Science’s Dimensions has been officially launched in January 2018. At a first glance, this is an exciting development, bringing new competition to the existing field, which is dominated by Clarivate’s Web of Science and Elsevier’s Scopus. Since Dimensions is a freemium, features such as full text and citation analytics require a subscription. Prior to subscription, library typically conducts trials and thorough evaluation, measuring the value that Dimensions brings to the institution, comparing it to existing products, calculating the cost of switching, examining its features and contents, and even considering the future of the product and the company. This paper, …

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Quadcopters Or Linguistic Corpora – Establishing Rdm Services For Small-Scale Data Producers At Big Universities, Göran Hamrin, Viola Voß Dec 2018

Quadcopters Or Linguistic Corpora – Establishing Rdm Services For Small-Scale Data Producers At Big Universities, Göran Hamrin, Viola Voß

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

During the IATUL Conference 2017, the authors had many productive exchanges about similari-ties and differences in Swedish and German higher-education libraries. Since research data management (RDM) is an emerging topic on both sides of the Baltic Sea, we find it valuable to compare strategies, services, and workflows to learn from each other’s practices. Aim: In this talk, we aim to compare the practices and needs of small-scale data producers in engineering and the humanities. In particular, we try to answer the following research questions: What kind of data do the small-scale data producers produce? What do these producers need in …

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Research Support – “Just In Time”?, Inga Lena Grønlund Dec 2018

Research Support – “Just In Time”?, Inga Lena Grønlund

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Challenges occur as research typically require “just in time” library support. The evolution of a research project may lead to sudden changes in coordination between different phases or steps in the project. Consequentially, the need for flexible research support conflicts the possibilities for long-term resource planning and coordination in the library. Moreover, these consequences will enlarge in a situation with resource scarcity. The aim of my presentation is to address some challenges posed by the time-logic inherent in research projects, based on experiences from the literature search team at OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University (formerly HIOA, Oslo and Akershus University …

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Supporting Research In A Digital World – Positioning The Library On Campus, Ewald Brahms Dec 2018

Supporting Research In A Digital World – Positioning The Library On Campus, Ewald Brahms

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

The digital world offers new opportunities for university libraries to support research and to position itself on campus. However, open access, open science, and further aspects of ‘openness’ necessitate strategic changes in order to ensure high-quality library services tailored to the customers’ needs. Establishing new partnerships, and developing shared initiatives on as well as off campus enable the library to manage new projects, improve its existing services, and also offer new services. Building on a convincing record of past performances Hildesheim University Library is able to undertake new tasks, and thus to position itself on campus as an innovative and …

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What Do Demand-Driven E-Lending, E-Acquisition And E-Cataloguing Activities Really Cost: A Case Study In Tallinn University Of Technology Library, Kate-Riin Kont Dec 2018

What Do Demand-Driven E-Lending, E-Acquisition And E-Cataloguing Activities Really Cost: A Case Study In Tallinn University Of Technology Library, Kate-Riin Kont

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

According to C. A. Mandel: „We are all spending money, some of us know how much, fewer of us know what for“ (Mandel 1988, p. 220). For over a several decades, many academic libraries have been purchasing books requested by their patrons or customers. The ease and effectiveness of demand-driven acquisitions definitely helps to optimize acquisitions budget as well. Nowadays university libraries increasingly turn to e-books as an alternative to purchasing multiple copies. Academic libraries have for years been forced to purchase large packages of e-books that are of questionable financial value because so much of the content is not …

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Inspiring Innovation With Patent Information Literacy In The Engineering Technology Curriculum, David Zwicky, Margaret Phillips Dec 2018

Inspiring Innovation With Patent Information Literacy In The Engineering Technology Curriculum, David Zwicky, Margaret Phillips

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Patents have wide appeal to students, faculty, and employers and can be a potent tool for integrating information literacy (IL) into engineering and technology curricula. There is evidence to show that students use patents to assess the patentability of their design ideas, explore the state of the art in a given area of technology, and to inspire creativity in their work. Faculty use patents and other complementary forms of gray literature to go beyond the traditional IL world of scholarly literature and engage students with information problems that reflect real-world design challenges. Working with patents allows students to develop strategic, …

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Enhancing Information Literacy Via Mooc And Library’S I-Space, Shirley Chiu-Wing Wong Dec 2018

Enhancing Information Literacy Via Mooc And Library’S I-Space, Shirley Chiu-Wing Wong

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Equating search with research, as reaffirmed by the studies led by the Hong Kong Polytechnic University Library, is a widespread misconception among undergraduates in Hong Kong. Base on real findings of the studies, a self-paced, asynchronous, non-credit bearing online MOOC courseware “InfoLit for U”, has been launched in early 2018. The “InfoLit for U” MOOC courseware was jointly designed by the libraries of all public funded universities in Hong Kong. Its design takes reference from the relational model of information literacy, in particular, the knowledge creation face of informed learning. The focal module, developed by the Hong Kong Polytechnic University …

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A Digital Information Literacy Course For University Teachers: Challenges And Possibilities, Katri Rintamäki, Anne Lehto Dec 2018

A Digital Information Literacy Course For University Teachers: Challenges And Possibilities, Katri Rintamäki, Anne Lehto

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

In Finland, digitalization is taken as the basis for the development of education: for creating new kinds of learning resources, learning environments, and pedagogy. From primary schools to universities, digital learning is essential. In digital learning, libraries play an important role. University libraries spend most of their acquisition budget on digital information resources and actively promote high-quality open access resources. In digital learning, the libraries and librarians' expertise in digital information resources, in information and digital literacies, and in open research and open science, are vital. Information literacy education for students, even information literacy courses included in the curricula, is …

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Engineering Graduates At Work: Reality Check For Information Literacy, Caroline Leiss, Pia Ludwig Dec 2018

Engineering Graduates At Work: Reality Check For Information Literacy, Caroline Leiss, Pia Ludwig

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Information Literacy (IL) in the Workplace is a relatively new and increasingly important area of research in library science. Many libraries offer IL programmes in order to help students find, ac-cess and use literature for their studies and final papers. But to what extent does instruction in IL help students in their future employment? In international library science, a number of publications already investigate concepts of em-ployability and their relation to information literacy. In Germany, the discussion is just beginning. There is little evidence that German libraries include information literacy for the workplace in their strategic programme development. The University …

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On The Role Of Tasks In Virtual Game-Based Learning: The Example Of “Lost In Antarctica“, Simone Kibler, Linda Eckardt Dec 2018

On The Role Of Tasks In Virtual Game-Based Learning: The Example Of “Lost In Antarctica“, Simone Kibler, Linda Eckardt

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

There is evidence that tasks play an important role in the context of the development of virtual learning scenarios. This paper will focus on this fact and identify the relationship between tasks and their purpose in the context of “Lost in Antarctica”. This game-based blended-learning scenario contains a huge variety of tasks ensuring the acquisition of different skills within the broad range of information literacy (IL)-topics. In conclusion, general recommendations for the use of tasks in the conceptional process of e-learning environments should be given. "Lost in Antarctica” is a game-based blended-learning platform for about 150 students of Industrial Engineering …

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Using Technology To Teach Students Information Literacy Skills: An Online Module For First-Year Students At The University Of Johannesburg (Uj), Elize Du Toit Dec 2018

Using Technology To Teach Students Information Literacy Skills: An Online Module For First-Year Students At The University Of Johannesburg (Uj), Elize Du Toit

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Being information literate is a basic requirement for 21st-century learning and assessment. As the shift in 21st-century education moves towards e-learning and the use of technology in education, libraries have to recognise that their role to provide ‘traditional’ support to teaching, learning and research needs to change to support web-based learning. This shift in education necessitates libraries to look at new ways to enhance students’ academic experience by incorporating web-based technology to train students in information literacy skills. The UJ library developed an online information literacy module to support students’ information literacy skills. A pilot study was conducted to analyse …

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Using Virtual Reality To Create Real World Collaborations, Richard Smith, Oliver Bridle Dec 2018

Using Virtual Reality To Create Real World Collaborations, Richard Smith, Oliver Bridle

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

The Radcliffe Science Library (RSL) is Oxford University’s principle science library and it provides easy access to digital tools to enhance teaching, learning and research. Previous projects have developed lending programmes for e-readers and iPads and introduced a popular 3D printing service. The library’s interest in adapting to disruptive technology and providing innovative tools to support academic projects and exploration of new technologies led us in 2017 to initiate a Virtual Reality (VR) lending programme. University members can now borrow VR Headsets, 360⁰ degree cameras and supplementary equipment free of charge from the RSL. In this paper we describe how …

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Scaling And Sustaining International Partnerships – A Case Study, Xin Li, Wei Pan Dec 2018

Scaling And Sustaining International Partnerships – A Case Study, Xin Li, Wei Pan

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

How to keep an international collaboration beyond a one-time project? This is a challenge for many libraries. With support from the Henry Luce Foundation, Cornell University Library implemented a preservation training program for 16 librarian interns from 12 academic libraries in Mainland China and Taiwan during 2012-2016. The project aimed to enable the creation of a low-cost preservation infrastructure where little or none existed, and subsequently prolong the accessibility of these collections to researchers around the world. The most unique aspect is the program’s scalability and sustainability. The train-the-trainers model started with a six-week program on Cornell’s campus. Afterwards, Cornell …

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Academic Libraries Support Cross-Disciplinary Innovation And Entrepreneurship, Heather A. Howard, Dave Zwicky, Margaret Phillips Dec 2018

Academic Libraries Support Cross-Disciplinary Innovation And Entrepreneurship, Heather A. Howard, Dave Zwicky, Margaret Phillips

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Supporting innovation is essential in today’s academic ecosystem, and libraries are well-positioned to connect prospective entrepreneurs with the myriad resources and services available. Libraries are able to leverage pre-existing collaborations and partnerships with groups both inside and outside the university (from local community groups to international level organizations); libraries’ status as information brokers across disciplinary boundaries also enables them to make new connections with a wide array of potential stakeholders. Librarians from different subject specialties will share experiences and discuss ways in which libraries can support global entrepreneurship efforts by university faculty, staff, and students, as well as the general …

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Someone Has To Pay: The Global Sustainability Coalition For Open Science Services (Scoss), Martin Borchert, Vanessa Proudman Dec 2018

Someone Has To Pay: The Global Sustainability Coalition For Open Science Services (Scoss), Martin Borchert, Vanessa Proudman

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

The Open Access (OA) and Open Science (OS) movement is gaining momentum with an increasing number of scholarly outputs openly and freely available to researchers and the community. OA and OS cannot however, be free for everyone. Someone has to pay for the infrastructure and there has to be a supporting economy. While many commercial publishers are charging for OA, there are many OA and OS infrastructure providers baring the cost of providing infrastructure. Without funding, essential services that many are dependent upon to implement government and funder OA policies worldwide, are at risk of service degradation, reduced availability and …

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F.A.I.R. Is Fair For Research: Australian Initaitves To Improve Openness In The Scholarly Communications Environment, Jill Benn, Martin Borchert Dec 2018

F.A.I.R. Is Fair For Research: Australian Initaitves To Improve Openness In The Scholarly Communications Environment, Jill Benn, Martin Borchert

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Disruptive changes are transforming the scholarly communications environment. In an era of false reporting and fake news, quality information and verifiable data is essential. However, much of the world’s best publicly funded research remains hidden behind commercial publisher paywalls. Unlocking this research can help solve the world’s greatest research and social challenges, and result in a more informed society. This paper will explore how, within the Australian context, librarians are seeking to make research more findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR). The Australasian Open Access Strategy Group (AOASG) and the Council of Australian University Librarians (CAUL) have worked on a …

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How Do Professional Engineers Use Information Compared To Undergradutes, And How Can Libraries Prepare Students And Support Engineers For Future Success?, Margaret Phillips, Michael Fosmire, Jing Lu, Kristin Petersheim, Laura Turner Dec 2018

How Do Professional Engineers Use Information Compared To Undergradutes, And How Can Libraries Prepare Students And Support Engineers For Future Success?, Margaret Phillips, Michael Fosmire, Jing Lu, Kristin Petersheim, Laura Turner

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Librarians at Purdue University seek to develop engineering graduates who are effective information users. Similarly, information specialists at Caterpillar Inc. are concerned with how well new hires are prepared for the information landscape at work as practicing engineers. Librarians from Purdue University and Caterpillar partnered to create and disseminate a survey to compare how students and practicing engineers seek and use information in the research process. Within a framework that asked survey participants to think about information use in a recently completed project, responses highlighted several gaps in information literacy training, including the use of external standards and internal document …

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Developing A Digital Culture And Embedding Digital Agility Within A Library Workforce, Anne Horn, Eleanor Reynolds Dec 2018

Developing A Digital Culture And Embedding Digital Agility Within A Library Workforce, Anne Horn, Eleanor Reynolds

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

“Culture is the most significant self-reported barrier to digital effectiveness” (Goran, LaBerge & Srinivasan, 2017). Universities are looking to a “different kind of education for a much more uncertain world” (Havergal, 2017). University Libraries are preparing students to be effective citizens in these changing times by ensuring graduates are information and digitally literate. To continue to evolve and provide excellent library services it is essential that the library workforce embraces the challenges that the Fourth Industrial Revolution poses. Following the successful development and launch of an Information and Digital Literacy (IDL) framework for learning and teaching, The University of Sheffield …

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Courage And Co-Creation: Cultural Transformation In An Academic Library, Catherine Clark, Carolyn Hofmeester, Jane Pritchard Dec 2018

Courage And Co-Creation: Cultural Transformation In An Academic Library, Catherine Clark, Carolyn Hofmeester, Jane Pritchard

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

University libraries are transforming to be vibrant and distinctive online and physical spaces that, at their heart, continue to foster the connection of people to ideas. Rapid and continuously changing expectations of clients in the range of services that are delivered by libraries, combined with increasingly demanding resourcing environments are challenges for all library leaders. A library staff culture that is energised, focused and resilient is essential to ensure that service expectations are met or exceeded and that the library retains its valued position in the university. The University Librarian at Curtin University in Australia has initiated and led a …

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Slowly But Surely: Leading The Workforce At The University Of Adelaide Into The Library Of The Future, Teresa Chitty Dec 2018

Slowly But Surely: Leading The Workforce At The University Of Adelaide Into The Library Of The Future, Teresa Chitty

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

In 2015, a broadly representative committee from across the University of Adelaide considered the next 20 years of the University’s Library: how to respond to changes in the academic and information management landscape while preserving and enhancing what is valued in the Library today. The Library of the Future Committee, as it was called, found that library services were struggling to be all things to all people; students, staff, alumni and the wider community. As in many academic libraries there was a large legacy print collection that was little used, and that use was continuing to decline; correspondingly the staff …

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Operating Different Displays In Military Fast Jets Using Eye Gaze Tracker, Jeevitha Shree Dv, L. R. D. Murthy, Kamalpreet Singh Saluja, Pradipta Biswas Dec 2018

Operating Different Displays In Military Fast Jets Using Eye Gaze Tracker, Jeevitha Shree Dv, L. R. D. Murthy, Kamalpreet Singh Saluja, Pradipta Biswas

Journal of Aviation Technology and Engineering

This paper investigated the use of an eye-gaze-controlled interface in a military aviation environment. We set up a flight simulator and used the gaze-controlled interface in three different configurations of displays (head down, head up, and head mounted) for military fast jets. Our studies found that the gaze-controlled interface statistically significantly increased the speed of interaction for secondary mission control tasks compared to touchscreen- and joystick-based target designation system. Finally, we tested a gaze-controlled system inside an aircraft both on the ground and in different phases of flight with military pilots. Results showed that they could undertake representative pointing and …

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Additive Manufacturing Of Ti6al4v Alloy: A Review, Shunyu Liu, Yung C. Shin Dec 2018

Additive Manufacturing Of Ti6al4v Alloy: A Review, Shunyu Liu, Yung C. Shin

School of Mechanical Engineering Faculty Publications

In this paper, the recent progress on Ti6Al4V fabricated by three mostly developed additive manufacturing (AM) techniques-directed energy deposition (DED), selective laser melting (SLM) and electron beammelting (EBM)-is thoroughly investigated and compared. Fundamental knowledge is provided for the creation of links between processing parameters, resultant microstructures and associated mechanical properties. Room temperature tensile and fatigue properties are also reviewed and compared to traditionally manufactured Ti6Al4V parts. The presence of defects in as-builtAMTi6Al4V components and the influences of these defects on mechanical performances are also critically discussed.

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Bibliography: Life, Illness And Disabilities In Life Writing And Medical Narratives, I-Chun Wang, Jonathan Hart, Cindy Chopoidalo, David Porter, Shu-Hua Chung Dec 2018

Bibliography: Life, Illness And Disabilities In Life Writing And Medical Narratives, I-Chun Wang, Jonathan Hart, Cindy Chopoidalo, David Porter, Shu-Hua Chung

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

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Landscapes Of Illness, Politics Of Segregation And Discourse Of Empathy In The 19th Century Leprosy Narratives Of Hawaii, I-Chun Wang Dec 2018

Landscapes Of Illness, Politics Of Segregation And Discourse Of Empathy In The 19th Century Leprosy Narratives Of Hawaii, I-Chun Wang

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

Leprosy is one of the oldest known human diseases, recognized throughout the world. Leprosy causes serious damage to the nervous system, often resulting in deformity in the absence of an effective treatment; sufferers were often left at the mercy of its natural process or were segregated from others due to the fear of contagion. The places ravaged by leprosy became lands of fear. Modern science has shown that leprosy bacilli have a high rate of infectivity but a rather low rate of pathogenicity, and above ninety percent of people are equipped with immunity to leprosy. Leper colonies as described in …

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Age Troubles, Emotional Labor, And Roz Chast’S Can’T We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, Shu-Li Chang Dec 2018

Age Troubles, Emotional Labor, And Roz Chast’S Can’T We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, Shu-Li Chang

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In the article "Age Troubles, Emotional Labor, and Roz Chast’s Can’t We Talk about Something More Pleasant?," Shu-li Chang examines the medium—comics—Roz Chast uses to give expressions to the emotional labor involved in caregiving. The first section reads closely the Introduction of Chast’s memoir to set the stage for a critical engagement with Chast’s innovative use of comics to critique the discourse of positive aging. The next section examines the double movement of the emotional labor of caregiving: what moves the caregiving subject and how she is moved into thought. The article concludes by proposing, in the final section, …

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Disability, Victorian Biopolitics And Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray, Hiu Wai Wong Dec 2018

Disability, Victorian Biopolitics And Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray, Hiu Wai Wong

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article “Disability, Victorian Biopolitics and Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray,” Hiu Wai Wong discusses The Picture of Dorian Gray as Oscar Wilde’s life writing of the androgynous beauty. Extending his praise of Lord Alfred Douglas in De Profundis, Wilde’s descriptions of Dorian as the androgyne can be read as the demonstration of Michel Foucault’s techniques of the self. She argues that the androgynous beauty can be a strategy of bodily practice that overthrows the Victorian biopolitics which enforces a rigid gender role. Moreover, she explores the notion of camp and Judith Butler’s theory of performance to explain the …

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More Migrants With Nowhere To Go?, Mary E. Theis Dec 2018

More Migrants With Nowhere To Go?, Mary E. Theis

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In "More Migrants with Nowhere to Go?” Mary Theis reframes the stories of the Tai Dam and discusses this group of people, who migrated from Vietnam and Laos to Thailand and then to Iowa in 1975 after the wars in Southeast Asia when they virtually had nowhere to go. It is based on interviews with some of the 1,200 Tai Dam who were invited by Governor Robert Ray to resettle in Des Moines, Iowa, and nearby cities. The stories are contextualized by research on U.S. policies on immigration and the current precarious fates of other migrants in the United States …

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Reminiscing About Latin: Cases Of Life-Writing And The Classical Tradition, David Andrew Porter Dec 2018

Reminiscing About Latin: Cases Of Life-Writing And The Classical Tradition, David Andrew Porter

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In his article "Reminiscing about Latin: Cases of Life-writing and the Classical Tradition," David Andrew Porter examines the life of Latin and life-writing in Latin while drawing on other languages. He argues that post-classical Latin writing is vital to many modern writers and offers a challenge to post-Romantic conceptions of literature. He explores how Latin literary traditions affect professional and accidental writers, from the Renaissance scholar Isaac Casaubon to the Jamaican poet Francis Williams, in order to draw attention to the humour, irony and conflict in such lived experiences and writing.

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The Colonized Masculinity And Cultural Politics Of Seediq Bale, Chin-Ju Lin Dec 2018

The Colonized Masculinity And Cultural Politics Of Seediq Bale, Chin-Ju Lin

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In her article, “The Colonized Masculinity and Cultural Politics of Seediq Bale,” Chin-ju Lin discusses a Taiwanese blockbuster movie, a postcolonial historiography and a form of life-writing, which delineates the last Indigenous insurrection against Japanese colonialism. This article explores the cultural representations in Seediq Bale. Fighting back as a colonized man for pride and dignity is portrayed as means to restore their masculine identity. The headhunting tradition is remembered, romanticized, praised highly as heroic and even strengthened in an inaccurate way to promote individualistic masculinity and to forge a new national identity in postcolonial Taiwan. Nevertheless, the stereotypical …

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