Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper is designed to interrogate whether it is feasible to deal with such grand political issues as authority, sovereignty/the state of exception, and justice in the critical context of the African-American literature. There are reasons of looking at those power-related issues awry in our age shorn of grand narratives. If anything, African-American literary discourses have been responsible for contemplating the political and ethical implications about the historic changes of America. Since Martin Delany`s Blake; or the Huts of America, the African-American historical novel, such as Ishmael Reed`s Flight to Canada, Toni Morrison`s Beloved, or Charles Johnson`s Middle Passage, was concerned with the theme of ever-changing identity politics in the Americas. In this paper, I am particularly interested in the ways in which Edward Jones`s historical novel, The Known World, comes up with the topics of power and ethics. First, focusing on the triangular relationship between a unique black slave owner Henry Townsend, his biological father Augustus Townsend, and his white surrogate father William Robbins, I discuss how the ruse of authority influences fatherhood. Then, resorting to Giorgio Agamben`s philosophical view of sovereignty, I delve into the way that the slave master as a sovereign manipulated slavery as a peculiar state of exception in the antebellum plantation regime. Finally, taking a close look at the confrontation between the white sheriff John Skiffington and the free black woman Mildred Townsend, I investigate why the rule by law has been in conflict with the right of resistance in the history and how Skiffington`s excessive law enforcement results in Mildred`s sublime civil disobedience.
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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 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.013 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 0.001 |
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".