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Record W4245160619 · doi:10.1080/17450910802501105

Veiling an Indian beauty: Shakespeare and the<i>hijab</i>

2008· article· en· W4245160619 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Richard Wilson

Bibliographic record

VenueShakespeare · 2008
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicShakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBeautyOrientalismArtAestheticsLiterature

Abstract

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Bassanio's suspicion of the “beauteous scarf / Veiling an Indian beauty” belongs within an Orientalist discourse in which the “Dark Lady” figures the impenetrability of global trade to western unveiling, an endless “travailing” of “sails and veils” that (like Jacques Derrida and Hélène Cixous) Shakespeare associates with the secretion of silk. But in a culture that craved eye-to-eye openness, his plays valorize masked desire as a means of inserting private faces in public spaces, and so introduce the fashionable silk visor as a screen, like the hijab, which puts secrecy on display. Thus, the “Moorish” subtext of The Merchant of Venice constitutes a new Catholic “closet” sphere that is the foundation of modern religious and sexual toleration, as the overdetermined silk veil is emptied on the stage of its history of cultural suspicion and fundamentalist violence.

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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)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.122
Threshold uncertainty score0.242

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0190.013
Scholarly communication0.0080.003
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0020.006
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0070.001

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.

Opus teacher head0.039
GPT teacher head0.217
Teacher spread0.179 · 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 designNot applicable
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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