The Fragmentation of the Self in Postcolonial Drama
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Abstract
This chapter examines plays that speak from a multitude of cultures, histories, narratives, and aesthetic values. The plays contain similarities: they are concerned with the impact of colonialism; they are seeking to retain traditions and values in the form of rituals and dramaturgical traditions that have been ruptured, eviscerated, or disembowelled. The dozen dramatists examined in the chapter are Wole Soyinka, Athol Fugard, and Christina Ama Ata Aidoo from Africa; Girish Karnad from India; Gao Xingjian from China and Yukio Mishima from Japan; Derek Walcott from the Caribbean; the Latin American novelist and playwright Carlos Fuentes; from the Middle East the Syrian dramatist Saadallah Wannous and the Israeli Hanoch Levin; and two exemplary Canadian dramatists, Ann-Marie MacDonald and Judith Thompson. Many of these dramatists are caught in the crossfire between Western modernism's liberating and self-centered proclivities on the one hand, and the customs of communal loyalty on the other.
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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) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.015 | 0.038 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.012 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.010 |
| 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".