<i>The Migrant Canon in Twenty-First-Century France</i>. Oana Sabo. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2018. Pp. ix+198.
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Migrant Canon is a sophisticated, innovative, and timely examination of the genre of migrant fiction in France, tracing its development from a marginal position in the 1980s to an influential one in twenty-first-century criticism and publishing.The Migrant Canon, whose cover design-especially its red band-recalls both the French publishing house Gallimard and the removable red slip added to prizewinning books in France, focuses on the areas of production, reception, and consecration of "migrant literature" in order to explore its canonization.Examining both new and old legitimating agents and strategies, The Migrant Canon seeks to demarginalize the category of migrant fiction in contemporary French literary production.Oana Sabo, an associate professor at Tulane University, expertly analyzes the editorial, institutional, and reading mechanisms that bestow an ever-increasing value to the fictional French-language migrant novel.The author engages in close readings and sociohistorical analysis in order to challenge existing dichotomies such as francophone/French, elite/popular, aesthetic/commercial, center/periphery, and consecrated/emergent.The result of such rich analyses is a dynamic new literary categorization that no longer separates French and migrant literature from one another. Early in its introductionThe Migrant Canon offers an original approach to the French literary tradition, one that defies and redefines the concept as the author bases "French" not on birth or residence in France, but merely through publishing with French presses.While this significant change is but one of many instances whereby this work undoes and opens borders surrounding literary consecration and categorization, it is more Modern Philology, volume 117, number 1.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.034 | 0.009 |
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".