Possibilities of “Moments of Ordinariness” in Mobility in Dionne Brand’s Love Enough
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Dionne Brand’s Love Enough ponders the positionality of alienated characters in the cosmopolitan city of Toronto. Brand particularly depicts her characters in their mobile status, which is peculiar as they are restlessly moving, either physically or psychologically, while being stuck at the same time. The scholars including Sara Ahmed point out that the mobility does not always entail the positive value due to the certain circumstances that drive people into mobility. For Brand’s characters, the central cause for their static-mobility, notwithstanding the various roots of the cause, lies in their troubled body schema. This paper therefore first explores the different forms of static-mobile state of main characters in Love Enough in order to argue that Brand attempts to find the possibility for the alienated characters to negotiate their position in the city space of Toronto in the “moments of ordinariness” within the endless movement. In this brief moments, which are short but influential, the characters in Love Enough become able to reestablish their relation to the world and the people they encounter by re-viewing the same space and situation in their own perspective.
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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 | 0.001 |
| 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 | 0.019 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| 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".