Before Katrina: Archiving Performative Downpours and Fallen Women Named Sadie in Rain and The Deluge (1922)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In 1922, two popular plays – Rain and The Deluge – literally took the stage by storm. In what may strike post-Katrina audiences as a somewhat uncanny coincidence, these plays were based on the aftermaths of natural disasters: specifically, torrential downpours and the breaching of a levee. Both plays also featured a down-on-her-luck “fallen” woman called Sadie. Indeed, after this season, Sadie became an iconic character-type, appearing in various Broadway hits, musicals, and films for years. In focusing on just two of the performative iterations of Sadie, this essay shows that, at the same time that Sadie rivals heteronormative sexuality (as well as codified notions of racialization), so too she finds herself in narratives that often reinscribe such ideologies. And yet, while, narratively , efforts are made to contain Sadie, such efforts often fail. Performatively , then, Sadie is a figure that often resists these oppressions and performs sexual subversions, if only momentary ones.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.012 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 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".