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Subaltern Consciousness In Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance

2021· article· en· W3210605763 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
C. Shahin Banu

Bibliographic record

VenueTurkish Online Journal of Qualitative Inquiry · 2021
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicSouth Asian Cinema and Culture
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSubalternCasteColonialismHarmony (color)ConsciousnessPoliticsGender studiesSociologyPostmodernismAestheticsHistoryPolitical scienceLiteratureLawPhilosophyArt
DOInot available

Abstract

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Post colonialism deals with the cultural heritage of colonialism and imperialism which mainly exposes the exploitation of colonized people and their lands and brings out the upshots of the unfair treatment under the control of the colonisers. The post colonial theory analyses the culture, history, literature and discourse. The postmodern novelists deal with a variety of themes by blending history, fancy and reality. The unexplored world of the a subaltern is presented realistically by writers like Mahasweta Devi, Bama, Aravind Adiga and Rohinton Mistry. Internationally acknowledged Post Colonial writer, Rohinton Mistry is an Indian born Canadian. His writings deal with the downtrodden exploitation by the political injustices, economic imbalances and societal stereotypes. Though he belongs to a Parsi community, he focuses mainly on the plight of the untouchables who are treated inhumanely by the dominant class in this novel, A Fine Balance (1995). The novel deals with several issues like the quest for identity, conflict between the oppressed and the oppressor, political injustices, economic imbalances and loneliness. The most striking and prominent theme is exploitation of the lower caste people by the upper caste. The aim of this paper is to bring out the subaltern consciousness in Rohinton Mistry’s A Fine Balance and thereby make the society to realise, empathise and live in harmony with one another.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.013
Threshold uncertainty score0.039

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0130.019
Scholarly communication0.0050.005
Open science0.0000.005
Research integrity0.0020.006
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 head0.140
GPT teacher head0.392
Teacher spread0.252 · 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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