“My History is a Foreign Word”: (Re)imagining Black Diasporic Masculinities in David Chariandy’s <i>Soucouyant</i>
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Abstract
This essay explores how black masculine subjectivity is (re)constituted and defamiliarized in Canadian author David Chariandy’s novel Soucouyant (2007). I apply a queer feminist diasporic analysis to illustrate how black diasporic masculinities are produced and (re)imagined through the mediated narratives of diasporic women. I suggest that Soucouyant challenges hegemonic constructions of masculinity by articulating contemporary black diasporic masculinities in new, alternative and queer ways. Soucouyant also gestures to the historical conditions of migration and settlement of black diasporic communities, which intersect with the disenfranchisement of Indigenous peoples through land theft and cultural genocide in Canada. Overall, I argue that theorizing black diasporic masculinities as relational offers a useful entry point for constructing political alliances between Indigenous and diasporic groups within and beyond the nation-state.
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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
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| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| 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".