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Record W2019927075 · doi:10.3138/md.46.1.73

Performing the Future of Memory: Algerian Playwrights in France

2003· article· en· W2019927075 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Janice Gross

Bibliographic record

VenueModern Drama · 2003
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicNorth African History and Literature
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsColonialismBoycottContext (archaeology)IslamSpanish Civil WarGovernment (linguistics)DemocracyIdentity (music)HistoryPolitical sciencePopulationMedia studiesLawSociologyArtPoliticsAestheticsArchaeology

Abstract

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Amid controversy and fanfare, the year 2003 was declared Djazaïr or Year of Algeria in France. Not surprisingly, Algerian and French organizers and artists alike faced the challenge of determining how to commemorate a long and contentious colonial and post-colonial history set in the more recent context of a brutal civil war which raged between security forces and armed Islamic groups from 1992–1998. In addition, Algeria's Berber population, with its long history of resistance to repressive governmental policies. organized protests and a boycott against the government's sanctioned role as "official" purveyor of Algerian culture in the context of the 2003 program. Deeply rooted in a pre-Islamic identity layer, this vocal community has long represented the voice of the pluralistic cultural heritage of the "other" more essential and democratic Algeria. This latest controversy is another reminder of the Algerian nation's long and arduous struggle toward self-definition, as played out both within and outside of its borders. For Algerian playwrights and performers living in Paris, the past, both distant and recent, asserts itself as an omnipresent and seemingly inescapable backdrop against which the creative process takes place. This paper briefly outlines that backdrop before exploring the various ways that Algerian playwrights have articulated exile over the past thirty years.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.047
Threshold uncertainty score0.093

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0130.007
Scholarly communication0.0080.003
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0020.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0080.001

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.

Opus teacher head0.008
GPT teacher head0.180
Teacher spread0.172 · 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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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Published2003
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