Bibliographic record
Abstract
Fugitive BordersThis book contributes to the literary branch of Black Canadian studies.As such, it works at the interdisciplinary juncture of history, literature, and literary history.Although Black Canadian studies have been flourishing over the past decades, especially, work in history and historiography has dominated the field (see below).Much remains to be explored in Black Canadian literature; in particular, the literary output of the nineteenth century has garnered hardly any attention.Yet, despite the absence of Canada as a nation-state, or maybe precisely because of that, it is necessary and relevant to delve into lesser known texts today.Such attention can nuance our understanding of the British North American-U.S. border, its racial dimension, and the community-based textual production that shaped it.Therefore, this book gives full recognition to an original sample of multilayered life narratives that have received little or no regard from literary scholars in Canada.This has to with the fact that they have been partly regarded as historical sources, and also because the label "slave narrative" has made them "an exotic species of Americana" (Clarke, "'No Hearsay'" 7), which prevented them from entering the canon of British North American literature before Confederation in 1867.The choice of texts continues to challenge the literary canon of both Canadian literature written by minority authors and that of North American slave narratives.Accordingly, the attention this book dedicates to these four narratives participates, on the one hand, in putting Canada West on the map of abolitionism, anti-slavery activism, and black community building before 1867, and discussions of North American slave narratives and black life writing by former slaves, on the other.Fugitive Borders utilizes and transcends life writing scholarship in investigating the consequences of the authors' multiple literary and biographical cross-border trajectories between Canada West and the United States (and sometimes other places) as reflected in their narratives.The potential of this crossborder literature unfolds precisely through these trajectories, turning the by now
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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 | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.022 | 0.028 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.016 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.016 | 0.003 |
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".