"'Voices Under the Window of Representa tion: Austin Clarke's Poetics of (Body) Memory in The Meeting Point"1
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Austin Clarke's reputation as the first major Caribbean/Ca nadian writer is well established.2 For almost forty years of his publishing career, he produced over 20 publications (16 works of fiction, 3 memoirs, a collection of selected writings and one es say publication.) His first novel, The Survivors of the Crossing, was published in 1964 and his latest work, The Polished Hoe. was published in 2002. Clarke has gained some recognition one published book length study, one biography, an Austin Clarke Reader, several articles and numerous reviews—; however, the history of early Clarke criticism exposes a critical enterprise lim ited to representationalist assumptions of mimeticism and aes theticism. A review of the critical reception of his 1967 The Meet ing Point (hereafter referred to as Meeting), for example, shows that, generally, Clarke's work has been limited to readings ad dressing the authenticity of representation in it.3 The novel is consistently commended for Clarke's use of language and gener ally criticised for its weak plot, while there is disagreement among critics regarding the success of his realism. Meeting is a useful focus in this paper because it is one of the earliest Caribbean/ Canadian attempts to figure Canada as a point of cross-cultural contact and also because it demonstrates the tendency in early Clarke criticism to treat Caribbean/Canadian writing primarily in terms of represented content. These readings are often legitimised by assumptions of mimeticism or organicism. In this regard, Meeting is viewed as a novel of excess in which distor tions of the real or disruptions of order are dismissed as aesthetic flaws. Consequently, very little attention has been given to
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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 | 0.003 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.024 | 0.030 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.016 | 0.007 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 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".