Bridge Indians and Cultural Bastards: Narratives of Urban Exclusion in the World's "Most Liveable" City
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Abstract
espanolEl presente articulo se propone analizar la representacion de la ciudad de Vancouver en dos relatos breves: �Polka Partners, Uptown Indians and White Folks� (Lee Maracle, 1999) y �Out on Main Street� (Shani Mootoo, 1993). Ambos relatos tratan sobre la imposibilidad de establecer una identidad univoca y permanente en el contexto de la ciudad diasporica y multicultural. Al mismo tiempo, la celebracion de las identidades diasporicas se plantea como un objetivo inalcanzable para quienes habitan los margenes del espacio social urbano. Las mujeres que protagonizan estas historias (aborigenes canadienses e indo-trinitenses, respectivamente) son excluidas de participar plenamente en la vida de la ciudad por motivo de su origen etnico, genero y sexualidad. Frente a la narrativa dominante que construye Vancouver como la ciudad mas habitable del mundo, estos relatos se presentan como micronarrativas de una experiencia urbana marcada por la alienacion y la marginacion. EnglishThis article examines the representation of the city of Vancouver in two contemporary short stories: Lee Maracle�s �Polka Partners, Uptown Indians and White Folks� and Shani Mootoo�s �Out on Main Street� first published in 1999 and 1993, respectively. Both stories explore the impossibility of establishing a fixed, stable identity and a solid sense of belonging in the diasporic space of the multicultural city. At the same time, the embracement and celebration of a diasporic identity is not an alternative for those who inhabit the margins of the urban socioscape. Maracle�s Bridge Indians (First Nations or Native Canadians, i.e. Canada�s Aborigines) and Mootoo�s cultural bastards (Indo-Trinidadians) are barred from full participation in the life of the city on the grounds of their ethnic origin, gender and sexuality. In contrast with the dominant narrative that constructs Vancouver as the most liveable city in the world, these stories stand as micro-narratives of an alternative urban experience defined by alienation, exclusion and marginalisation.
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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 | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 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 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".