“slave over epic”: (Re)presenting Voice and Negotiating Nationalism in George Elliott Clarke’s Canticles I
Bibliographic record
Abstract
George Elliott Clarke’s ongoing, multi-volume epic, Canticles I, engages canonical and minority racial narratives in order to create a discursive space for (re)presentations of voice. As an epic, Canticles I utilizes many of its traditional structural markers; however, it largely revises and adapts them in order to suit its postcolonial project. The collection, though international in scope given its mapping of transatlantic movement, also negotiates with issues of nationalism, particularly in recognizing the effects of diaspora on the multicultural mosaic of Canada and confronting Canada’s long-disregarded history of slavery. This thesis examines how Canticles I evokes postcolonial poetics within the framework of the traditional epic mode, how it participates in canon reformation through the reconstruction of voice, and how it contributes to the Canadian, and more specifically, African-Canadian, literary project. Beyond a close analysis of Canticles I, this thesis also identifies a recognizable gap in literary scholarship regarding African-Canadian literature – one that Clarke similarly aims to fill, both through his critical and creative writing
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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 | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.022 | 0.039 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.012 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| 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".