A Post-Colonial Study of Fenimore Cooper’s The Last of the Mohican: Relativity, Racism, Hybridity, and American Dream
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The study tries to explore some post-colonial themes in J. Fenimore Cooper’s Last of Mohican. For doing so, it traces the elements including: relativity, racism, hybridity, and American Dream by which Cooper abrogates legitimized superiority of Europe and inferiority of American, although he has appropriated European English and changed it for American local needs. In fact, he reveals the post-colonial condition of America to define Americanism, American identity, hero, and myth in his novel. In actuality, the real concern of a colonized person, like Cooper, is to object to colonizers; therefore, we investigate his novel which was shaped in the transitional period of colonization to their independence as the reflection of internal voice of a nation against invaders. The article came to the conclusion that Cooper, by his novel, serves to introduce American autonomous novel and literature which is the greatest manifestation of culture. That is, he tries to announce American cultural independence through literature, namely decolonization.
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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 | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.028 | 0.016 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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 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".