Transnational Poetics: Asian Canadian Women's Fiction of the 1990s
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Published in 2011, the critical study Transnational Poetics engages with an eclectic assortment of texts by South Asian, Chinese, and Japanese Canadian women writers, mostly from the 1990s. Opening new spaces within the tradition of Asian American literary studies, Transnational Poetics speaks to this now established field of study, particularly within the context of Canadian literature. Drawing on pioneering work in the late 1980s, recent scholarship that includes Eleanor Ty’s Unfastened: Globality and Asian North American Narratives (2010), the collection Asian Canadian Literature Beyond Autoethnography (2008), and the special issue of the journal Canadian Literature on “Asian Canadian Studies” (Winter 2008) shows how this realm of enquiry has retained its vibrancy through the first decade of the twenty-first century. Transnational Poetics, nonetheless, focuses particularly on those Asian Canadian women writers whose work follows what the British writer Angela Carter describes in her renowned essay “Notes from the Front Line” (1983) as “putting new wine in old bottles, especially if the pressure of the new wine makes the old bottles explode” (69).
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.049 | 0.023 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.001 |
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".