Bibliographic record
Abstract
I begin this chapter on Margaret Atwood's two historical novels Alias Grace (1996) and The Blind Assassin (2000) with her radical questioning of the terms on which identities, individual and collective, are constructed. Addressing a Canadian audience in Ottawa shortly after the publication of Alias Grace, Atwood evokes the collective "we" but only in order to break open any comfortable assumptions about national identity based on a sense of history and origins. She draws attention to the relationship between present and past, not by focusing on connections but by pointing to the inbetween space between Now and Then, casting doubts on historical certainties and challenging any notion of an authentic national identity that derives from the legitimating narratives of history, hinting at instabilities and gaps within collective and subjective memory: "We live in a period in which memory of all kinds, including the sort of large memory we call history, is being called into question" (In Search, p. 7). Though Atwood widens her frame of reference here by alluding to a general context of postmodernist skepticism, her questions directly address uncertainties generated by the cultural and ideological shifts that have altered the terms of the debate about Canadian identity and heritage during the 1990s.KeywordsScience FictionTraumatic MemoryLove AffairLunatic AsylumCanadian HistoryThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
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
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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".