“It Was a Strange New World, It Was”: Queering Place and Place Myths in Contemporary Newfoundland and Labrador Literature
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article begins with an analytical itemization of several moments in recent Newfoundland and Labrador fictions in which identity, culture, and history are presented and romanticized through heteronormative sexual relationships and metaphors. Having identified such depictions as established tropes in Newfoundland and Labrador literature, this article then considers a new wave of queer representations of Newfoundland place and people in novels and stories by Jessica Grant, Kathleen Winter, Eva Crocker, Michael Winter, and others to examine how these instances contradict and complicate heteronormative images of consummation and control. Finally, this article will accept the invitation extended by Scott Lauria Morgensen in “Settler Homonationalism: Theorizing Settler Colonialism within Queer Modernities” to consider how queer histories can be consumed by settler nationalism and then question if these new Newfoundland narratives are unsettling and transformative or simply more stories supporting the complexity, as well as the inevitability and finality, of an Indigenized Newfoundland settler culture.
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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 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.037 | 0.074 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.012 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 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".