Imagining the Global and the Rural: Rural Cosmopolitanism in Sharon Butala's The Garden of Eden and Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide
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Abstract
This paper will examine two novels set in rural places in different parts of the world: Sharon Butala's The Garden of Eden , set in rural Saskatchewan and rural Ethiopia, and Amitav Ghosh's The Hungry Tide , set in rural West Bengal. While each novel is written out of a different national context, both raise a number of overlapping questions about the rural and the cosmopolitan. The novels each suggest ways of looking at physical places through the lens of cosmopolitanism to create what I will call a territorialized cosmopolitanism a cosmopolitanism that is located in specific, though often multiple, places.
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Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| 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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| 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 |
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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.
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