Dramatic Mode and the Feminist Poetics of Enactment in Daphne Marlatt’s Ana Historic
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Daphne Marlatt uses a dramatic mode in her fiction about history to circumvent patriarchal language and create a feminist poetics of enactment. Performative moments in Ana Historic enable the revisioning of historical moments, which are re-enacted in the mind’s eye of the protagonist. Exploring dramatic language, theatrical metaphors, and techniques of character building, Annie imagines a world outside of what is conventionally written about historical settler women and turns her focus on unwieldy female bodies – including the immigrant body, the hysterical body, the lesbian body, and the birthing body – to re-enact, rather than to document, a possible version of history. Theories of writing the body in text by Roland Barthes, Luce Irigaray, and others help illuminate Marlatt’s dramatic mode, which offers a way of exploring characters who have been neglected or restrained within traditional literary and historical representations – particularly female immigrants to nineteenth-century Canada – and supports a feminist writing strategy within and against language. Marlatt writes what she senses is her body’s language to signify beyond conventional systems of representation and to explore her characters’ interiors.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.014 | 0.023 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| 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".