The intricate relationship between space and autobiography : (space narrated in I Had a Father by Clarke Blaise)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
My intention in this paper is to analyse Clarke Blaise's novel I Had A Father (A Postmodern Biography) (1993) front the point of you how spacialization and autobiography are linked in his identity formation. Space is of particular importance in the process of trying to define his bilingual and bi/polycultural identity. His father was French-Canadian, his mother was English-Canadian and he lived much of his life in the USA. The "multiple personality syndrome" in his case is strongly connected to space and therefore to places in an idiosyncratic way. This narrative of self-definition cannot be separated from spatial interaction with the environment. The spatial polarities among which he keeps moving aim towards Québec; he would like to become a Québecer and is searching for his roots there, and therefore it is a questfor his father as well, who was present in his life by his absence. The article will conclude by supposing that the varied spatial configurations in the novel support an ambivalent fixity, which, however, is set in a deep-rooted Québecois self.
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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 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.013 | 0.020 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 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".