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Record W2462298820

Trans-American Nomads in Dany Laferriere's Migratory Texts

2016· article· en· W2462298820 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Jana Evans Braziel

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicCaribbean and African Literature and Culture
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMiamiHumanitiesEthnologyImmigrationMulticulturalismRefugeeIdentity (music)GeopoliticsNationalitySociologyGender studiesHistoryArtPolitical scienceAestheticsPoliticsArchaeologyLaw
DOInot available

Abstract

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Si le nomade peut etre appele le Deterritorialise par Deleuze and Guattari write, c'est justement parce que la reterritorialisation ne se fait pas apres comme chez le [If the nomad can be called the Deterritorialized par excellence, it is precisely because there is no reterritorialization afterward as with the migrant].1 In this paper, however, I am interested in Dany Laferriere as a nomadic migrant writer.2 Like other contemporary francophone migrant writers, such as Flora Balzano, Mehdi Charef, Linda Le, and Leila Sebbar, Laferriere deliberately resists definitive location and deterritorializes the derive and deracinement of the nomad. By resisting location, nomadic migrant writers also elude the fixity of the identity categories by which the country of adoption attempts to define them-le negre ['the black'], le migrant ['the migrant'], I'autre ['the other']. Laferriere is rootless and adrift, but also a deterritorializing force within Quebec that aspires to sovereignty and nationality and within the U.S., increasingly multicultural and transnational. He writes out the diasporic and exilic dislocations of nomadism: linguistic, geopolitical and schizo-social. Laferriere-deracinated (deracine), drifting (derivant), deterritorializing (deterritorialisant). Having worked as a journalist in Baby Doc Duvalier's Haiti in the early 1970s, Laferriere fled the country after one of his colleagues was found dead. In Chronique de la de'rive douce [Drifting Year], Laferrir I fled before they could kill me. That's different] (Chronique 27/25). Throughout Chronique, an account of his first year in Quebec, Laferriere, who now lives in Miami, resists the possibility of establishing roots in the pays d'accueil, yet he also frustrates the possibility of return to the pays natal:

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Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.123
Threshold uncertainty score0.244

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0180.008
Scholarly communication0.0050.003
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0020.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.001

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.

Opus teacher head0.010
GPT teacher head0.197
Teacher spread0.186 · 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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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