‘Memórias emprestadas’: From the Post-national State to the End of Socialist Internationalism in Ondjaki’s <i>AvóDeznove e o segredo do Soviético</i> and <i>Sonhos azuis pelas esquinas</i>
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Angolan author Ondjaki, born in 1977, after Angola’s independence, borrows the memories of his parents’ generation of anti-colonialist revolutionaries to consecrate the image of a post-national, autonomous Angolan nation in fiction written in the twenty-first century. AvóDezanove e o Segredo do Soviético (2008) transmits an idealized vision of a revolutionary childhood in order to bolster the post-national image of the Angolan state in the twenty-first century, when neither the author nor his readership lives in Angola, and the government is no longer idealistic but corrupt and oppressive. The short story collection Sonhos azuis pelas esquinas (2014), exploring the author’s globalized identity, employs the vantage point of the globalized present to unravel the memories borrowed from the narrator’s parents in order to come to terms with stark realities of the 1980s obscured by the earlier work’s ideology.
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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 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.023 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| 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".