Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article explores suppressed histories of those residing on the margins of social power as counter-narrative against the official history in Michael Ondaatje’s In the Skin of a Lion (1987). The novel is a ‘historiographic metafiction’ and deals with the immigrant workers in Canada. It is centered on the construction of the Bloor Street Viaduct and the Toronto Waterworks at the beginning of the 20th century. To dispel the myth of documentary objectivity and to recuperate the hidden histories of the dispossessed, the novel writes the counter-narrative silenced by the official archive. And it exposes the internal colonialism hidden in the past history of Canada. My reading relies upon two epigraphs that show the themes and aesthetics of the novel. Through a seeking of the past, Patrick Lewis’ journey from passive observer to political actor is mirrored in the first epigraph taken from the Epic of Gilgamesh. The second epigraph comes from John Berger’s G. It implies the style and strategies Ondaatje employs, such as fragmentation, indeterminacy, estrangement, and ambiguity in the form of collage. Also I read this novel focusing on colonialist psychology from the viewpoint of the colonial subject, the cultural outsider. I suggest that the novel reveals the ways in which colonialist psychology operates to sustain the imbalances of cultural power, that is, the colony within.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.020 | 0.016 |
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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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".