Ghosts that visit us as we dream and Figurative homelands: second-generation immigrant experiences in North American contemporary poetry
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Abstract
The Ghosts That Visit Us as We Dream is a poetic manuscript that observes my family’s immigration from Tanzania to Canada. The poems are voiced from a variety of familial perspectives to capture how identity reforms and transforms throughout generations. Several of the poems were written as part of my research trip to Tanzania in January 2019, while others meditate on my experiences of growing up in Alberta, Canada. This manuscript principally employs repetitions and figurations of the natural world to reflect on wider themes of womanhood, belonging, cultural dissonance, loss, homeland, and spirituality. Water, in all its forms, becomes one of the collection’s major metaphors, representing liminality, crossings, and time as recursive. My work traverses the borders between the imaginary, the inherited, and the present moment. Figurative Homelands: Second-generation Immigrant Experiences in North American Contemporary Poetry examines how second-generation immigrants figuratively represent their North American and ancestral homelands in poetry. It includes a critical analysis of the poetic works of South Asian, Muslim second-generation immigrants, Kazim Ali, Fatimah Asghar and Tarfia Faizullah, and evaluates how they fuse the literal with the figurative in order to explore, give expression to, and take ownership of multidimensional identities. It examines the poetics of diaspora, specifically considering second-generation immigrant diasporic identities, from a multidirectional approach. Moreover, it builds upon the framework of what Sadia Abbas calls the “new Islam,” and examines how figurative homelands are constructed within the context of conflictual experiences arising from Islamophobia in the period following 9/11. This research also evaluates how second-generation immigrants craft figurative homelands using intergenerational storytelling and childhood remembrances. Additionally, it examines how loss manifests for writers who live in liminality, and how contradictory experiences or multiplicity are illustrated by gaps in both a poem’s formal structure and its conceptual landscape.
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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 | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.021 | 0.016 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| 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".