Postcolonial Fiction of the<scp>W</scp>est<scp>I</scp>ndian/<scp>C</scp>aribbean Diaspora
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In the Caribbean, one emigré writer recollects, “you grow up knowing that you're going to leave” (Philip 230). That seems to be a given for writers‐to‐be of the West Indies/Caribbean basin, whose diaspora includes the United States, Canada, and Great Britain. For the Anglophone Caribbean, London has long served as a de facto cultural capital, and with the post‐World War II surge of migration, its West Indian population grew significantly. By 1961 an estimated 172,000 West Indians had immigrated to the UK, and by 1981 500,000 people of West Indian background lived there. Diasporic literature begins as a literature of immigration, later becoming a migrating literature constantly reformulating its sense of place and identity. “Migration creates the desire for home, which in turn produces the rewriting of home” (Condé & Lonsdale 1999). In its beginnings, diasporic literature exists on the margins of national literatures, whether British, American, or Canadian; as it evolves from one generation of writers to the next it redefines national spaces and imagines transnational ones.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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 teacher head, 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".