Hemispheric Travel from Europe to <i>las Américas</i>: The Imaginary and the Novel in Québec and Canada
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract: This article explores cross-cultural interactions in Canadian fiction in French and English, and delineates a hemispheric shift in the imaginaries of the literatures of Canada and Québec. Beginning with what are sometimes considered to be the “first” Canadian and Québécois novels, The History of Emily Montague by Frances Brooke and L’Influence d’un livre by Philippe Aubert de Gaspé, fils , this article will argue that both were open to the “Other,” as represented by references to the opposing linguistic body (French or English). The article then provides a diachronic overview of texts published in English and French in Canada, and underlines both cross-cultural interactions (English-French) within the literatures of Canada and their fascination with Europe. This is followed by references to some late twentieth-century authors, whose work reveals the beginning of a shift in attitudes away from Europe and toward Latin America. The article ends with an in-depth analysis of a twenty-first-century novel, Nikolski by Nicolas Dickner , and the main thrust of the argument here is to unpack the diminishing importance of Europe and the increasing importance of Latin America for the contemporary literary imaginary.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.042 | 0.017 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.013 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.011 | 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".