Men Negotiating Identity in Zadie Smith's White Teeth
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Zadie Smith's novel White Teeth examines the masculine experience (both migrant and English) by reflecting on the complex effects that the history of Britain's colonial enterprise can have on one's identity. While her text mirrors many of the modern narrative responses to living in post-imperial British society and adapting to its multiplicities of identity, Smith redeploys the traditional conventions of the contemporary British novel by shifting between generational analyses of masculinity and focusing on the changing social codes between the past and the present. Smith challenges social constructions of masculinity by dissecting cultural belonging and nationality, analyzing the ways in which masculinity is ruptured and distorted (both in behaviour and in practice) in the various narratives of identity. Most importantly, the novel maps the significance of a person's roots/routes, necessitating an exploration of the history and journey involved in negotiating a masculine identity in the new postcolonial world.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 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 | 0.000 |
| 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 it