The Coming-of-Age Narrative of Confessional Healing in Joy Kogawa`s Obasan
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Kogawa’s Obasan is a bildungsroman that portrays the narrator Naomi Nakane’s transformation in the wake of her clan’s internment during WWII. Naomi reaches adulthood, in a manner that she changes from an infantile and silent Japanese subject, traumatized by the mysterious absence of her mother as well as her wartime experiences, to a “healthy” Canadian subject. Naomi’s coming of age, as a result, is accompanied by a growing pain, a racial injury and grief that she pays for, while fleshing out a new Canadian subjectivity in exchange for the memory of her “skeleton” mother.” Indebted to Anne A. Cheng’s theory of racial melancholia, this paper shows that the first step towards curing Japanese Canadians’ racial injury is to be able to recognize that they themselves are disciplined to be invisible and silent vis-a-vis white authority, thus allowing them to regain their voice and to reclaim their national identity as Japanese CANADIANs rather than JAPANESE Canadians.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.039 | 0.022 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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".