Creative and Cultural Identity in the Work of Anson Gonzalez: A Study of Proseleela , Chela Quest , and Crossroads of Dream as Spiritual and Literary Autobiography
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Abstract
The work of Anson Gonzales a pioneer in the literary arts of Trinidad and Tobago from 1973 -1993 has been grossly overlooked. This analysis of his first three collections of the twenty-first century attempts to put his own writing on par with his work as facilitator of a generation of writers in his journal The New Voices. Referencing Sandra Pouchet Paquet's Caribbean Autobiography (2002) alongside Jerome Bruner's and Jens Brockmeier's theory on narrative and identity, this article analyses Gonzalez's Proseleela (2007), Chela Quest (2005), and Crossroads of Dream (2003) and finds that different from earlier work, these collections read like sequential life-narratives of a shifting authorial persona creating a retrospective teleology, foregrounding the creative, cultural and spiritual centre of his life-work. Alongside its analysis of the spiritual, the article reveals the extent to which the indigenous, multi-ethnic, and bacchanalian culture of Trinidad and Tobago creates polyphony for Gonzalez's work under the following four headings: (1) Of Reiterations and Recurrent Motifs - Intimations of Autobiographical Structuring; (2) The Man in the Mirror: The Shifting Narratological Persona in Proseleela, Chela and Crossroads; (3) Building a Retrospective Teleology in the Narrative of the Ramleela; and (4) Integrations of a Creative and Cultural Identity.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.012 | 0.020 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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".