Settler Nationalism and the Foreign: The Representation of the Exogene in Ernest Thompson Seton’s <i>Two Little Savages</i> and Dionne Brand’s <i>What We All Long For</i>
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Abstract
abstract The privilege afforded to anglophone whiteness in English Canada would seem to be at odds with the cliché that Canadian national identity is elusive. As a settler society, English Canada imagines itself relative to the others it defines within a complex process of indigenization. Critical attention has usually focused on the way the indigenous is represented to insist upon the seamless integration of settler cultures into their physical environments and to exonerate them from traumatic colonial histories. Viewing indigenization as a simultaneous abnegation of foreign traits, this essay investigates the signifying process as it relates to ‘exogeneity’, or foreign otherness, in English Canada. A comparative analysis of Ernest Thompson Seton’s Two Little Savages (1903) and Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For (2005) reveals the way in which consistent representations of the foreign – the ‘exogene’ and the ‘exogenous’ – remain integral to the articulation of national identity in English Canada.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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 |
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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 | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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 itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, 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".