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Motion pictures --- Cinéma --- History --- Histoire --- Reed, Carol, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Cinéma --- Reed, Carol --- Criticism and interpretation
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The slave experience was a defining one in American history, and not surprisingly, has been a significant and powerful trope in African American literature. In Re-Forming the Past, A. Timothy Spaulding examines contemporary revisions of slave narratives that use elements of the fantastic to redefine the historical and literary constructions of American slavery. In their rejection of mimetic representation and traditional historiography, postmodern slave narratives such as Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada, Octavia Butler's Kindred, Toni Morrison's Beloved, Charles Johnson's Ox Herding Tale and Middle Passage, Jewelle Gomez's The Gilda Stories, and Samuel Delany's Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand set out to counter the usual slave narrative's reliance on realism and objectivity by creating alternative histories based on subjective, fantastic, and non-realistic representations of slavery. As these texts critique traditional conceptions of history, identity, and aesthetic form, they simultaneously re-invest these concepts with a political agency that harkens back to the original project of the 19th-century slave narratives. In their rejection of mimetic representation and traditional historiography, Spaulding contextualizes postmodern slave narrative. By addressing both literary and popular African American texts, Re-Forming the Past expands discussions of both the African American literary tradition and postmodern culture.
African Americans in literature --- Afro-Americans in literature --- Afro-Amerikanen in de literatuur --- Afro-Américains dans la littérature --- Amerikaanse zwarten in de literatuur --- Black Americans in literature --- Esclavage dans la littérature --- Esclaves dans la littérature --- Negroes in literature --- Noirs américains dans la littérature --- Slaven in de literatuur --- Slavernij in de literatuur --- Slavery in literature --- Slaves in literature --- Zwarte Amerikanen in de literatuur --- American fiction --- Historical fiction, American --- Fantasy fiction, American --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- History and criticism --- African American authors --- 20th century --- Historical fiction [American ] --- Fantasy fiction [American] --- United States --- Reed, Ishmael --- Butler, Octavia E. --- Morrison, Toni --- Johnson, Charles Richard --- Knowledge --- History --- Slaves in literature. --- African Americans in literature. --- Slavery in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Morrison, Toni. --- Reed, Ishmael, --- Johnson, Charles Richard, --- History. --- Slavery and slaves in literature --- Enslaved persons in literature
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How can one exchange information e?ectively when the medium of com- nication introduces errors? This question has been investigated extensively starting with the seminal works of Shannon (1948) and Hamming (1950), and has led to the rich theory of “error-correcting codes”. This theory has traditionally gone hand in hand with the algorithmic theory of “decoding” that tackles the problem of recovering from the errors e?ciently. This thesis presents some spectacular new results in the area of decoding algorithms for error-correctingcodes. Speci?cally,itshowshowthenotionof“list-decoding” can be applied to recover from far more errors, for a wide variety of err- correcting codes, than achievable before. A brief bit of background: error-correcting codes are combinatorial str- tures that show how to represent (or “encode”) information so that it is - silient to a moderate number of errors. Speci?cally, an error-correcting code takes a short binary string, called the message, and shows how to transform it into a longer binary string, called the codeword, so that if a small number of bits of the codewordare ?ipped, the resulting string does not look like any other codeword. The maximum number of errorsthat the code is guaranteed to detect, denoted d, is a central parameter in its design. A basic property of such a code is that if the number of errors that occur is known to be smaller than d/2, the message is determined uniquely. This poses a computational problem,calledthedecodingproblem:computethemessagefromacorrupted codeword, when the number of errors is less than d/2.
Error-correcting codes (Information theory) --- Reed-Solomon codes. --- Codes, Error-correcting (Information theory) --- Error-detecting codes (Information theory) --- Forbidden-combination check (Information theory) --- Self-checking codes (Information theory) --- Computer science. --- Data structures (Computer science). --- Coding theory. --- Algorithms. --- Computer science --- Computers. --- Computer Science. --- Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory. --- Coding and Information Theory. --- Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity. --- Models and Principles. --- Discrete Mathematics in Computer Science. --- Mathematics. --- Automatic computers --- Automatic data processors --- Computer hardware --- Computing machines (Computers) --- Electronic brains --- Electronic calculating-machines --- Electronic computers --- Hardware, Computer --- Computer systems --- Cybernetics --- Machine theory --- Calculators --- Cyberspace --- Computer mathematics --- Discrete mathematics --- Electronic data processing --- Algorism --- Algebra --- Arithmetic --- Data compression (Telecommunication) --- Digital electronics --- Information theory --- Signal theory (Telecommunication) --- Computer programming --- Information structures (Computer science) --- Structures, Data (Computer science) --- Structures, Information (Computer science) --- File organization (Computer science) --- Abstract data types (Computer science) --- Informatics --- Science --- Mathematics --- Foundations --- Signal processing --- Artificial intelligence --- Automatic control --- Coding theory --- Digital techniques --- Data structures (Computer scienc. --- Computer software. --- Computational complexity. --- Data Structures and Information Theory. --- Complexity, Computational --- Software, Computer --- Information theory. --- Computer science—Mathematics. --- Communication theory --- Communication
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