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Record W2138834501 · doi:10.1177/0021934707309135

Cecil Foster's <i>Sleep on, Beloved</i>

2007· article· en· W2138834501 on OpenAlexaffabout
H. Nigel Thomas

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Black Studies · 2007
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicShort Stories in Global Literature
Canadian institutionsUniversité Laval
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHeavenTrope (literature)AlienationContext (archaeology)Space (punctuation)SociologyAestheticsEpistemologyFoundation (evidence)PsychoanalysisPsychologyLiteraturePhilosophyLawHistoryArtLinguisticsPolitical science

Abstract

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This essay focuses on the pathology and alienation of Blacks in Cecil Foster's fictional Toronto. Space permits no more than a cursory analysis of why Blacks immigrate to Canada in large numbers. The author complements his analysis of Sleep on, Beloved with information from A Place Called Heaven and uses the latter to provide a context for the former. The exigencies of form—the novel and the essay—notwithstanding, the author does not feel that this approach distorts Foster's intentions inasmuch as Foster told the author that the single goal of his writing is to faithfully record and interpret reality to the best of his ability. It is worth noting too that in A Place Called Heaven, Foster's sense of life, which forms the psycho-epistemological foundation for his works, is expressed in minute detail. Underlying the analysis is the notion that place, unless the artist is inept, is always a major trope.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.841
Threshold uncertainty score0.501

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.040
GPT teacher head0.291
Teacher spread0.251 · 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 teacher head, not a consensus.

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

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".

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