Towards a Sri Lankan Feminism: Intersections in Feminism, Buddhism and Poststructuralist Thought Through Sunethra Rajakarunanayake’s Metta
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Abstract
This paper aims to stimulate a cross-cultural conversation between western poststructuralist feminist thought and eastern Buddhist thought as their resonancnes emerge through Sunethra Rajakarunanayake's novel, Metta. The novel, which essentially narrates the growth and development of a female character, radically complicates the central assumption of the female bildungsroman genre as a narrative of a woman’s self-creation/self-assertion because the heroine’s growth and development culminates not in the achievement of a sense of selfhood but in the realization of a self-lessness - the idea that there is no essential, core organizing principle behind experience. A knowledge that stems from Buddhist epistemology, Rajakarunanayake presents the attainment of this knowledge as profoundly empowering. Epistemologically, the novel thus resonates with western feminist poststructuralist thought which evinces a similar suspicion of identity categories. The novel thus provokes a meditation on the intersections between radically different cross-cultural epistemologies and illustrates how these epistemologies could be mutually-enriching.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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 teacher head, 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".