Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article examines the politics of representation in Thomas King`s indigenous narratives by analyzing his short stories in One Good Story, That One and his essays in The Truth about Stories: A Native Narrative. In his writings, not only does King criticize the process of building a modern nation-state in Canada, particularly the ways in which colonizing governing ideology becomes dominant in the process, but he also attempts to construct narratives that can contribute to (re)conceptualizing indigenous peoples` identity. This article is particularly concerned with the ways in which King`s representation of indigenous narratives serves as local narratives that can run counter to a colonizing central or national narrative. This study hopes to show how King seeks to articulate resistant local voices by indigenous peoples and contributes to (re)gaining the spatio-cultural and political position of indigenous peoples` narratives in Canada. Furthermore, it will assist us to (re)discover and (re)consider a cultural and political topography of indigenous peoples in Canada, in the situation that voices of indigenous peoples have long been marginalized, distorted, and erased.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.020 | 0.017 |
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".