Marginality in Toni Morrison's the Bluest Eye and of Gabrielle Roy's Windflower
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and Gabrielle Roy's Windflower (La Riviere sans repos) are both two fictional works that explore many dimensions of marginality. Although the two works show two protagonists of different ethnicities, African and Eskimo, their fates are subjected to and shaped by circumstances similar in many respects. In this paper, The Bluest Eye shows the African-American community in Ohio, America, inundated by external conditions and ideology constructed by the central, American culture there. Windflower is the story of an Eskimo mother, who becomes alienated both from her own culture of the Canadian North and that of the white South because of her love for her child. The protagonists of both, Pecola and Elsa, are victims of circumstances, especially as produced by an overwhelmingly dominant alien culture and its values. Both the works show a protest against the threats of cultural assimilation and dissemination in their own ways.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.021 | 0.033 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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 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".