Colonial Mirror Images of Micronesia and Japan: Beyond the Tug of War between "Americanization" and "Japanization"
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Abstract
Micronesian literature, modeled after Pacific literature from Polynesia, is characterized by its involvement in Japanese and American neo/colonialism. Its single novel Mariquita reflects Guamanian Chamorros' self-image as victims of the barbarous Japanese Imperial Forces and their gratitude for the US's liberation of them. Guam's postcolonial mode is depicted more sharply in Nightmare Near the Kiosk, which attacks US military power as well as Japanese imperialism. In comparison with these 1980s works, however, a shift can be found in 1990s literary discourse from Micronesia, which has been developed in the local journal Storyboard and is epitomized in Vincente Diaz's article. The writers assert their people's positive, provisional, self-determined self to overcome the fixed self-image of the wretched under their colonial experiences of Americanization and Japanization. On the other hand, it is said that Micronesians in the area which was placed under Japan's mandatory rule followed by a US trusteeship after World War Two, prefer Japanese to American administration in a sense. Some contemporary Japanese writers make use of and challenge this preference for Japanese imperialism and neo-colonialism in their works. These works mirror Japanese Orientalism vis-A-vis the Pacific: Japanese people's sympathy for and contempt of Micronesia and awe of and antipathy to the US. Those texts criticize not only American military and cultural hegemony toward Japan and Micronesia but also Japanese colonialism regarding Micronesians as potential Japanese. In this Japanese postcolonial awareness, the change in depiction of Micronesians from colonial victims into postcolonial enigmas can also be seen in the 1980s-1990s.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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 | 0.002 |
| 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 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".