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A Postcolonial Perspective of Margaret Laurence’s This Side Jordan

2020· article· en· W3154155255 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
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Bibliographic record

VenueLINGUISTICA ANTVERPIENSIA · 2020
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicPostcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsColonialismPostcolonialism (international relations)White (mutation)HatredConsciousnessHistoryPsycheGender studiesFeelingDouble consciousnessSociologyAestheticsAnthropologyArtPoliticsPsychoanalysisPolitical sciencePhilosophyLawPsychologyArchaeology
DOInot available

Abstract

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Colonialism has been encountered by the majority of people living in the world today, and the literature created in different parts of the world and challenges the Eurocentric conceptions of culture are characterized by multiplicity, variety, diversity, and richness, Canadian literature, one of those many works of literature, relates its colonial past and way of thinking and feeling so profoundly rooted in its psyche, diversity and wealth. In the light of postcolonialism, the paper aims to include an in-depth study of Margaret Laurence's African literature. Her African novel This Side Jordan, written in this light, set in the Gold Coast in the 1950s, illuminates a specific time in African history and expresses an insight gained from contemplating its colonial past. The white people look down with scorn and disdain on the Africans. Gold Coast is in the process of Africanization, i.e. Europeans are being replaced by Africans everywhere and these white employers feel that Africans lack administrative capacity A white lady writing about African colonial encounters, her novel This Side Jordan exhibits her untroubled or serene double-consciousness. Besides, the novel depicts, together with their repressive mind-set, the troubles and turmoil of the English colonizers too. Laurence differs from other colonial authors in this and appears to be a human being who transcends the walls of hatred and bigotry.

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Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.956
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.025
GPT teacher head0.241
Teacher spread0.216 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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