Bibliographic record
Abstract
In discussing the work of postcolonial writers, Homi Bhabha has observed that "the peoples of the periphery return to rewrite the history and fiction of the metropolis". While Bhabha is mainly discussing the periphery versus the metropolis within the former British Empire, and while his focus is on fiction, recent American theatre has produced a parallel movement, with formerly marginalized groups claiming centre stage in a multicultural society by placing the formerly offstage voices onstage. Such authors as Anna Deavere Smith (Fires in the Mirror and Twilight Los Angeles, 1992), Tony Kushner (Angels in America), and Suzan-Lori Parks (Imperceptible Mutabilities, The Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World, and The America Play) have displaced dominant notions of national identity (such as e pluribus unum, which claimed a united whole but really included only parts of that whole) with novel images of a fragmented society. In particular, Suzan-Lori Parks adopts a postcolonial perspective by positioning African Americans as a formerly colonized people — so that, rather than their lands being occupied by colonial powers, slave traders could be said to have colonized their bodies, deporting them from their native land, enslaving them, depriving them of their families, their language, and their culture — and as a people who, having lost their roots, their identity, and their self-esteem, remain alienated in the modem American metropolis. In this article, I will examine how Suzan-Lori Parks has deconstructed conventional American history through her theatrical redeployment of space and time and refigured African-American identity by re/making African-American history.
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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 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.863 | 0.797 |
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".