Bibliographic record
Abstract
Thomas King is a mixed-blood Canadian aboriginal writer and his A Short of History of Indians in Canada shows well the narrative strategy of minor literature. According to Deleuze, minor literature is usually affected and characterized by deterritorialization, collectivity and politics. The minor discourse is always surrounded, oppressed and marginalized by the major discourse but looks for a chance to subvert the hierarchy like the return of the oppressed for Freud. In an internal colony, the colonized minor literature mobilizes diverse narrative strategies to decolonize the colonial situation. Thomas King rejects the traditional realist way of representation and instead wields various narrative tactics just like semiotic reversal, recontextualization, metamorphosis, hybridization, political parody and fantasy. This paper examines how the tactics are performed in detail in his text. Through the diverse short stories of the text, Thomas King shows us multiple channels of disturbing, deranging and subverting the European colonial master discourse. He keeps on the flight line continuously never being trapped by the hierarchical, imperialist and colonial discourse.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.042 | 0.002 |
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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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".