VOICES OF THE SUBALTERN: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF EXPOSITION OF ISSUES OF WOMEN THROUGH DIASPORA NOVELS
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Abstract
Literature is one of the best mediums which can unfold various issues of the subalterns especially the issues of women. Pen is mightier than sword. In the era of globalization, migration has become inevitable for progress and sustenance. The issues of immigrant women-vis- a-vis those who are at home are of prime concern today and the expatriate women writers give voice to it. The paper will focus on comparative study of two novels of the expatriate novelists, viz. Anita Rau Badami’s The Hero’s Walk and BapsiSidhwa’s An American Brat. It will concentrate on various issues that women face in the host country and homeland. In The Hero’s Walk, Maya goes to Canada and then marries with Alan. Her condition in a patriarchal set up and the freedom that she gets in Canada are narrated by Badami. An American Brat narrates the journey of a young woman Feroza through three cultures-her own community’s Parsi culture, her country’s Pakistani Islamic culture and the western culture of the United States. In Pakistan she finds clash between conservative Islamic traditions and freedom of her community. A comparison between gender-relations in India and among overseas Indian communities will be carried out. The novels will be studied from the theories of Edward Said and Gaytri Spivak on legacy of Colonialism. It will help to reassess the conventional ways of understanding the status of women and will suggest various steps that are required to be taken in social, political and economic policies for eradication of this gender discrimination and to provide a dignified status to women.
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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 | 0.006 | 0.010 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.026 | 0.015 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.013 | 0.009 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.011 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 0.001 |
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".