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Displaced Majority: Robertson Davies and the Euro‐Canadian Diaspora

2008· article· en· W1906115338 on OpenAlex
Nina Varsava

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affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.
aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.

Bibliographic record

VenueOrbis Litterarum · 2008
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCanadian Identity and History
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Alberta
Fundersnot available
KeywordsTrilogyDepictionDiasporaNarrativeIdentity (music)ConsciousnessHistoryNational identityRelation (database)SociologyAestheticsGender studiesLiteraturePolitical scienceLawArt historyArtPhilosophyEpistemology

Abstract

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This essay discusses constructions of Canadian identity. Throughout the nation's history, many Canadians of European descent have defined themselves in relation to Europe (and the United States), rather than developing a sense of independent national identity. In his writing – both fiction and nonfiction – Robertson Davies, a preeminent late twentieth‐century Canadian writer, evocatively portrays this Euro‐Canadian ‘‘diasporic consciousness.’’ Through an exploration of his Deptford Trilogy , in particular the first and most celebrated novel of the series – Fifth Business (1970) – I analyze Davies's depiction of Euro‐Canadian sensibilities. I also relate Davies's trilogy to the perspectives of other Canadian writers – past and contemporary – which demonstrate similar Eurocentric sentiments. I question why European‐descended Canadians, even those many generations removed from Europe, still cling to their European heritage: why they resist a definition of Canada that is grounded in history and culture native to Canadian soil. In the essay, I evaluate the nostalgia of Euro‐Canadians for a European past. While acknowledging that this nostalgia is in many ways understandable and even inescapable, I also argue that, in order to develop the inclusive and unifying identity that Canada lacks, Canadians of all backgrounds must take more interest in the historical narratives and nuances that make Canadian society complex, unique, and worthy of deep exploration.

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metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.351
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0030.002
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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.

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Opus teacher head0.011
GPT teacher head0.208
Teacher spread0.197 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it