Bibliographic record
Abstract
This essay focuses on Evans’s detailed and meticulously realist representations of place in her first two novels, 26a and The Wonder, and argues that, underlying these realistically presented localities are instabilities, the narrative’s use of the magical and fantastical, which create instabilities in the text and serve self-consciously to challenge routine distinctions between self and other, native and foreigner, home and homelessness. The identities constructed are unselfconsciously plural, constituted of shifting, or colliding, geographies and temporalities whose significance nonetheless rests in the present of the novel and not in an extra textual historicity. Although centring on stories of loss and dislocation, the narrative creates affective spaces of commitment that, despite being also configured by loss and sadness, present the possibility of hope. The detailed attention to the specifics of place are evidence of Evans’s interest in how characters belong, rather than on the need to belong. The essay demonstrates the narratives’ privileging of unbelonging and movement, though within its carefully constructed spaces of commitment constituted by the emotional ties of individuals to each other. The spaces within which national, cultural and individual identities emerge is, in these texts, fluid, irreducible and integrally connected to globally enmeshed pasts.
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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 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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".