Refugees and global violence: complicity in Rawi Hage’s <i>Cockroach</i>
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Since its publication in 2008, Rawi Hage’s Cockroach has generated two forms of criticism, one which focuses on Hage’s unnamed narrator’s experiences in Montreal, and another which pays attention to his diasporic condition and trauma complex. Both critical methodologies face specific conceptual challenges, as neither can reconcile the national and local context of Cockroach with its global and diasporic affiliations. For that reason, this article connects these two methodologies by analysing the function of refugee narratives in Cockroach. This article interprets the narrator as complicit with those he criticizes and reads the novel’s violent ending as a duplication of western modes of intervention through narratives of security and rescue rather than as a tool that allows the protagonist to overcome his guilt complex.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| 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 | 0.000 |
| 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 it