Nation, Indigenization, the Beothuk: A Newfoundland Myth of Origin in Patrick Kavanagh’s Gaff Topsails
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The of a national culture often begins with a foundational myth, a story that, as Stuart Hall writes, locates origin of nation, people, and their national character so early that they are lost in mists of, not 'real,' but 'mythic' time. For postcolonial nation, such origin myths are useful for constructing an identity that preceded, and therefore exists in defiance of, the ruptures of colonization, and that unifies many cultures and societies into one people. But what about invader-settler colonies? While motivated by same desire to create a national identity that stands against imperial motherland, these states cannot construct their origins so easily, for narrative of nation must begin with troublesome moment of colonial invasion. In his 1996 novel Gaff Topsails , Patrick Kavanagh creates a myth for primordial national identity of Newfoundland. Kavanagh's myth reconfigures colonial moment as a myth of indigenous birth. His work is an attempt to write a national of Newfoundland that serves to distance Newfoundlanders both from colonial exploiters and from Canadian identity.
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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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.031 | 0.023 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| 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".