Tongue ties: Manifestations of solidarity in francophone literature 1932--2009
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Abstract
Solidarity, as it is represented in literary texts, has not attracted very much critical attention thus far; contemporary critical discourses, shaped by critical theory and the hermeneutics of suspicion, have been resistant to studies of solidarity, friendship, and other positive affects. Examining French-language manifestos and novels from the 1930s to the present, this dissertation finds solidarity expressed through the "solidary we" of manifestos, through letters and literary allusions, through representations of traveling encounters, and through references to revolutionary and historical figures. In addition, the dissertation defines a place for solidarity in critical discourse, specifically in affect theory, Marxian theory, and postcolonial studies, and begins to imagine a solidary French-speaking world distinct from "Francophonie." Manifestos studied include the "Avertissement" from Légitime défense, Aimé Césaire's "En guise de manifeste littéraire," the "Manifeste du FLQ," the concluding chapter of Frantz Fanon's Les damnés de la terre, Jacques Stephen Alexis' "Lettre aux hommes vieux," Michèle Lalonde and Denis Monière's Cause commune: manifeste pour une internationale des petites cultures, the Éloge de la créolité, the 2007 "Manifeste pour une littérature-monde," and the 2009 "Manifeste pour les 'produits' de haute nécessité." Novels included in the study: Ousmane Sembene's Les bouts de bois de Dieu, Pierre Vallières's Nègres blancs d'Amérique: Autobiographie précoce d'un "terroriste" québécois, Hubert Aquin's Prochain épisode, Marie Chauvet's Amour, colère et folie, and Mohammed Dib's Comme un bruit d'abeilles.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.025 | 0.014 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.010 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.000 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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".