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Record W2796301708

Canadian Mosaic or Two Solitudes: Holocaust Children's Literature

2007· article· fr· W2796301708 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Adrienne Kertzer

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Children's Literature / Littérature canadienne pour la jeunesse · 2007
Typearticle
Languagefr
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicThemes in Literature Analysis
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsThe HolocaustEthnologyHumanitiesMainstreamIdentity (music)ArtSociologyPolitical scienceLawAesthetics
DOInot available

Abstract

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Resume: Cet article propose une analyse comparative entre quatre livres pour la jeunesse consacres a l'Holocauste et les recits traditionnels («mainstream») du Canada; il tente egalement de preciser leur specificite par rapport aux ouvrages traitant de la Shoah publies a l'etranger. L'etude des elements relatifs a l'identite canadienne depasse la simple comparaison avec les caracteristiques essentielles des œuvres et des genres dominants. Elle souleve la question du Savoir, c'est-a-dire qu'elle aura chercher a decouvrir ce que les enfants canadiens doivent connaitre sur l'Holocauste. L'auteure de l'article devoile les aspects inquietants que peuvent presenter les livres sur l'Holocauste lorsqu'ils abordent la question de l'identite nationale et s'efforcent de situer les problemes relies a la Shoah dans un contexte canadien. Summary: This essay interrogates the relationship between Holocaust children's books and mainstream Canadian children's fiction. It considers what Canadian means in Holocaust children's books and whether Canadian-authored Holocaust children's books differ in any significant way from Holocaust children's books published outside Canada. It argues that questions about Canadian identity in Holocaust children's literature are provoked but not answered by the structural analysis provided by the list of shared characteristics of mainstream Canadian children's novels. Affirming that identity is also a matter of knowledge, the essay investigates what Canadian children are expected to know about the Holocaust. Through an analysis of four recently published books, the essay demonstrates the disturbing implications when children's books about the Holocaust also take on questions of Canadian identity and locate Holocaust issues in a contemporary Canadian setting. Three of the books are Canadian: Kathy Kacer's Clara's War , Sherie Posesorski's Escape Plans , and Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch's Hope's War ; one, Jackie French's Hitler's Daughter, is Australian.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.105
Threshold uncertainty score0.763

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0030.007
Science and technology studies0.0200.021
Scholarly communication0.0060.002
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0080.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.006
GPT teacher head0.209
Teacher spread0.203 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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