Bibliographic record
Abstract
Recent fiction produced by Muslim women novelists writing in English appears to explore and contest the continuation of Western images of Islamic women. Novels such as The Translator (1999), by the Sudanese writer, Leila Aboulela, writing from her experience of living in Scotland, and Sachs Street (2001), by the South African, Rayda Jacobs, who in 1995 returned to Cape Town after 27 years of Canadian exile, both posit complex personal relationships experienced by women whose identities are co-defined by Islam and the post-colonial condition. A third novel, A Mighty Collision of Two Worlds (2000), by Safi Abdi, originally from Somalia, is similar in plotting, in its concern with the reconstruction of an East-West marriage in terms of Islam. The aim of this paper is to trace some of the ways in which these romances construct a discourse within a generic framework readily identifiable with both the contemporary mass-market popular romance and also, in the case of Aboulela’s novel in particular, Jane Eyre. In that process, however, they appear also to challenge and refract the more predictable vagaries of the personal and sociopolitical desires of their Western generic counterparts.
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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 | 0.000 | 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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 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".