Arctic Solitude: Mitiarjuk’s Sanaaq and the Politics of Translation in Inuit Literature
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The study of Aboriginal literature often seems to be the most virtuous of decolonizing projects, as it promotes and honours some of the most marginalized voices. Both the call for greater recognition for Inuit writer Salome Mitiarjuk Nappaaluk's novel Sanaaq (1984) and the process whereby it has been excluded demonstrate the ongoing semi-colonial biases and expectations of literary studies in Canada. Canonizing Indigenous novels risks perpetuating the assimilative history of the Canadian education system in its demands that Indigenous literature appear in only the most familiar (or European) of forms. Anglophone institutions should welcome Mitiarjuk's work into the curriculum – not as evidence of the maturity of the Inuit literary tradition, but rather as a text that can expose the ongoing colonialism of Indigenous literary studies in Canada, and which can help us to reimagine or to think beyond the linguistic borders that continue to restrict us.
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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 | 0.005 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.033 | 0.019 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.012 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 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".