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Record W114907145 · doi:10.4000/actesbranly.488

Ngugi wa Thiong’o et la décolonisation par la langue

2011· article· fr· W114907145 on OpenAlexaff
Xavier Garnier

Bibliographic record

VenueLes actes de colloques du musée du quai Branly · 2011
Typearticle
Languagefr
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicPostcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
Canadian institutionsFrancophone University Association
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHumanitiesArt

Abstract

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Je vais donc parler de l'écrivain kenyan Ngugi wa Thiong'o, pas dans la totalité de son œuvre, mais pour me consacrer à la partie de sa vie où il a décidé de cesser de faire sa création littéraire en langue anglaise et de ne la faire plus qu'en Kikuyu.2 Ngugi wa Thiong'o est un écrivain kényan né en 1938, à Limuru au Kenya.Il s'agit d'une figure d'écrivain engagé qui n'a jamais cessé de mêler les préoccupations esthétiques et politiques.Il passe l'année 1978 en prison et prend alors la décision de ne plus écrire son œuvre littéraire qu'en Gikuyu.Il engage un combat pour l'utilisation des langues africaines dans l'expression littéraire.On a souvent assimilé cette décision à l'adoption d'une position « afrocentriste » : il y a ici un malentendu à dissiper… Il me semble que le sens de ce combat peut être mis en perspective du point de vue du sujet qui nous préoccupe aujourd'hui : la question des « littératures noires » ne se pose pas vraiment pour Ngugi, je voudrais montrer pourquoi elle est secondaire pour lui et comment le passage au Gikuyu va paradoxalement l'orienter du côté d'une « littérature-monde ».

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.075
Threshold uncertainty score0.150

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0090.007
Scholarly communication0.0020.002
Open science0.0000.002
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.029
GPT teacher head0.235
Teacher spread0.205 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2011
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