Mothering Alter-Narratives: Jack Hodgins’s The Drover’s Wife
Why this work is in the frame
A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper examines the alterations undergone by an Australian icon who is made to transmigrate to Canada. From a traditional attitude of feminine disempowerment and resignation, the drover’s wife has moved to a masculine, robust and conquering position which operates according to the principle of the full inversion of her original status: Jack Hodgins has performed a reversal which hinges on a photograph to develop Hazel Bailey’s life in Canada as a passage from subaltern to dominant, from silenced reification to loud claims of responsibility. But the photograph which mediates her alteration is a middle-brow art, it is on the second front page of a local newspaper, and it only displays the owner of the third largest private timber company in the remote province of B. C.. The drover’s wife’s achievement must be qualified accordingly and envisaged as an example of the fecundity and ambivalence of story telling in the postcolonial age. It might also be considered as a (m) othering of alterna(rra)tives destined to interrogate fiction and its duplicates or “the relationship of the self with the self which is nevertheless other.”
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| 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 it