Interview: "Free-Falling" and "Serendipity": An Interview with Joy Kogawa
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Resume: Dans ses romans tels Obasan et Itsuka et son seul recit destine a la jeunesse, Naomi's Road, la romanciere Joy Kogawa a voulu sensibiliser le public a la difficile situation des citoyens d'origine japonaise durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Dans cette entrevue, elle evoque les problemes d'identite que sous-tend son oeuvre romanesque. Summary: In this interview, Joy Kogawa produces a fascinating commentary on the construction of personal identity. She sets this discourse within three generations of her own family, talking about her perception of herself as white in her own childhood, about how her writing of and response to the reception of Obasan has changed her, and about how their perception of racism has affected her own children. She also provides commentary on the crafting of Naomi's Road , her children's version of Obasan , her internationally acclaimed novel about the experience of the Canadian-Japanese during World War II. As well, she gives insight into how personal memories, archival work, and creativity all coalesce in the production of art.
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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) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.035 | 0.012 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.009 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 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".