"Je me souviens": Staging Memory in Anglo-Québécois Theatre
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Abstract
This essay will wade into the debate about what distinguishes English-language writing in Quebec from the rest of English-Canadian writing by focussing on theatre. It begins with the premise that Anglo-Quebec writing since the 1970s is a response to Quebec nationalism and language policies, as well as a sign of acceptance of Quebec as a distinct society and an acknowledgment of the heterogeneity of the minority Anglo-Quebec community. The plays that we categorize as Anglo-Quebecois reflect the influence of living in a francophone environment, have some political content, and dramatize the historical memory of a particular segment of the anglophone or allophone communities. By examining works by David Fennario, Marianne Ackerman, Lorena Gale, Vittorio Rossi, Stephen Orlov, Endre Farkas, Rahul Varma, and others, the author demonstrates that Anglo-Quebecois theatre enacts what Charles Taylor calls deep diversity by performing different Canadian and Quebec identities and different ways of belonging. Abstract: Le present article examine les debats concernant les differences entre les ecrits de langue anglaise du Quebec et ceux du reste du Canada anglais en mettant l'accent sur le theâtre. L'article debute en declarant que depuis les annees 1970, les ecrits anglo-quebecois sont une reaction au nationalisme quebecois et aux politiques sur la langue ainsi qu'un signe d'acceptation du Quebec en tant que societe distincte et une reconnaissance du caractere heterogene de la communaute minoritaire anglo-quebecoise. Les pieces de theâtre que nous classons comme anglo-quebecoises refletent l'influence d'une existence dans un milieu francophone, sont quelque peu politisees et dramatisent la memoire historique d'un segment particulier de la communaute anglophone ou allophone. En examinant les œuvres de David Fennario, Marianne Ackerman, Lorena Gale, Vittorio Rossi, Stephen Orlov, Endre Farkas, Rahul Varma et d'autres ecrivains, l'auteure demontre que le theâtre anglo-quebecois promulgue ce que Charles Taylor appelle une « diversite profonde » en mettant en scene differentes identites canadiennes et quebecoises ainsi que differents modes d'appartenance.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.028 | 0.019 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.011 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.010 | 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".