"Dave, come on": Indigenous Identities and Language Play in Yves Sioui Durand’s Hamlet-le-Malécite
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Hamlet-le-Malecite, written by the Huron-Wendat playwright Yves Sioui Durand in collaboration with Jean-Frederic Messier, is a re-imagined version of Shakespeare’s Hamlet featuring First Nations characters. Primarily interested in foregrounding power relations rather than illustrating “universal” themes, the play dramatizes the process of decolonization, including the necessity of breaking silences and confronting past and current injustices, through a hybrid approach that incorporates parody and irony. Sioui Durand employs multiple languages and code switching as a way to challenge assumptions about contemporary Aboriginal people. What results is a complicated dance between a Western theatrical world, in which Hamlet’s relevance to contemporary Indigenous politics is evident, and an Indigenous theatrical world, in which its relevance to contemporary Indigenous art forms is challenged as much as it is affirmed. Hamlet-le-Malecite simultaneously appropriates, parodies, and sets aside Shakespeare in a new form of Native literature.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, 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".