Beyond Hodgins and Kroetsch : other spaces of English-Canadian magic realism
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The article offers a tentative analysis of six recent magic realist novels written in English by Canadian female writers of different ethnic origin, and set in different parts of the country, and beyond it. The female authors use magic realist techniques to open up for examination new spaces as they intertwine with the "classic" magic realist concern with memory. The condition of exile, which in many different planes dominates in some of the novels, often generates, but also results from, nostalgie approaches to the past. At stake is the recovery of memory, in all its different aspects; the memory lost as a result of social and/or personal trauma, but often encoded in the landscape itself. Significantly, in the process of negotiating the identities of the protagonists in multicultural contexts, all novels to a certain degree both criticize and revalorize the traditionally female spaces of family, domesticity, and spirituality, often redefining them at the same time. The writers are interested in particular in the self-construction of their protagonists within this domestic/multicultural context.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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".