Worlded Literature in Quebec: Wajdi Mouawad’s <i>Le Sang des promesses</i> Cycle
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Abstract
This article examines how contemporary Québécois literature is worlding itself. The term “worlding” being problematic, its use in this article departs from that of David Damrosch and other scholars who consider literature to be “worlded” when it has been integrated into a canon of literary works from around the world that ought to be, and sometimes are, read. In this study, I focus on the works of literature themselves in order to analyze how they inscribe the “world” through a problematization of history, identity, languages, and, in Wajdi Mouawad’s theatre in particular, of time and space. The four plays that make up Mouawad’s Sang des promesses cycle are connected through overarching themes such as war and conflict, ruptured family lines, death, and blurred identities, but, more importantly, they are preoccupied with historical and political events suggesting that, regardless of how distant they may be (in time and in space), they nonetheless shape the world now. Thus, the plays show that events such as the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 or the Lebanese Civil War of the 1970s and 1980s have an impact now, even on readers or spectators in Quebec. Mouawad’s tetralogy highlights how Quebec is inextricably connected to global concerns and urges that we share the ethical responsibility in creating a world that is less violent.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 teacher head, 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".