Scars on Both Body and Mind: Trauma and Rage in Ola Rotimi’s Hopes of the Living Dead
Bibliographic record
Abstract
A tendency towards apparently unprovoked rage characterizes the actions of many a leper-character in Ola Rotimi’s Hopes of the Living Dead . This study attempts, therefore, to utilize insights from clinical psychology or, more specifically, trauma studies to seek out the roots of these characters’ paranoia. Relying on insights from such trauma theorists as Sigmund Freud, Cathy Caruth, Esther Giller and Glen Most, among others, the study traces the root of the leper-characters’ reactions to both internal and external stimuli in the colony to which they have been consigned by the authorities to the repressed sense of neglect and discrimination brought upon by their sequestration. The implied contention of this study is that a different, more humane course of treatment for the leper-characters which seeks to integrate them into, and not separate them from, the society of which they see themselves rightly as a part would have averted the all-too-frequent temper tantrums that suffuse the atmosphere of the play.
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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 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.018 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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".