Unsettling the West: Nation and Genre in Guy Vanderhaeghe’s The Englishman’s Boy
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Abstract
Guy Vanderhaegh's The Englishman's Boy undermines the myths of Canadian innocence, and of the American frontier as an allegory of Romance and robust strength; it is ultimately self-referential, even self-critical, as the book-ended, stylistically distinct Assiniboine narratives point to the racist and one-sided perspective inherent to the Western genre itself. The rather hypocritical Canadian stance, that of embracing and rejecting America — dependent here, it is suggested, largely on financial matters — is paralleled by Hollywood's negatively revisionist sense of history, of its avowal and denial of its own aggressive violence. Harry Vincent's manipulation of his Canadian identity echoes the self-serving manipulation of Canadian and American history, both of which lay the blame for historical violence upon a dangerous other.
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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) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 it