Bibliographic record
Abstract
Lindsey Collen was born in South Africa in 1948.Married to a Mauritian, she lives in Mauritius and all her novels are entrenched in Mauritian reality.The Rape of Sita (1993), 1 which won the 1994 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for the Africa Region and was long-listed for the Orange Prize 2 , is her second novel 3 .The Rape of Sita re-visits the age-old Hindu sacred epic, the Ramayana and associates it predominantly to the famous modernist classic of Anglo-American literature, T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland, which is thus also re-visited.As such, it partakes in a literary practice that has become one of characteristic features of contemporary literature, defined, among others, by Adrienne Rich in 1979 as, "re-vision-the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction 4 ", by Gérard Genette in 1982 as, "hypertextuality" whereby a text (the "hypertext") is grafted onto a previous text (the "hypotext") and could not exist without it 5 , by Linda Hutcheon in 1985 as "modern parody" or "repetition with critical distance 6 ", by Christian Moraru in 1 All references are to Lindsey Collen's The Rape of Sita (1993), London, Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2001. 2 The Commonwealth Writers' Prize is divided, in a first stage, between four regions: (i) Africa, (ii) the Caribbean and Canada, (iii) Eurasia (Europe and Asia) and (iv) South-East Asia and the South Pacific.The final winner is selected from the four winners.3 Collen has also written: There is a Tide (1991), Misyon Garson (1996)-a novel written in Mauritian Creole, Getting Rid of It (1997), Mutiny (2001), Boy (2004)-an English adaptation of Misyon Garson, which won the 2005 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for the Africa Region.Her last novel, The Malaria Man and Her Neighbours, was published in 2006.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.015 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.008 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.025 | 0.005 |
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".