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Teaching Haiti through the Work of Rodney Saint-Éloi, écrivain engagé

2021· book-chapter· en· W4285378864 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Bonnie Thomas

Bibliographic record

VenueUniversity Press of Florida eBooks · 2021
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicCaribbean and African Literature and Culture
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPoetryMartiniquePassionSAINTHistoryCreole languagePoliticsArtArt historyHumanitiesLiteraturePhilosophyWest indiesLawEthnologyPolitical sciencePsychology

Abstract

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The French term engagement is generally understood to mean politically committed or involved. Many writers from the Caribbean can be considered to write littérature engagée, including Aimé Césaire (Martinique), who occupied the dual roles of poet and politician throughout his long life, and Edouard Glissant (also from Martinique), who consistently remarked upon the inextricability of poetry and politics. This chapter focuses on lesser-known Haitian poetry, and a writer whose work beautifully encapsulates the power of literary engagement. Rodney Saint-Eloi (b. 1963) is a distinguished Haitian poet and writer as well as the founder of the publishing houses Les Editions Mémoire in Port-au-Prince in 1991 and Mémoire d’encrier in Montreal, Canada, in 2003. Through a study of Saint-Eloi’s recent texts—including Haïti kenbe la (2010), the jointly edited Refonder Haïti? (2010) and Passion Haïti (2016)—this study provides insight into how to teach the politically involved and poetic nature of one of Haiti’s important writers.

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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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
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: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.038
Threshold uncertainty score0.076

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0120.006
Scholarly communication0.0030.002
Open science0.0000.002
Research integrity0.0010.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.001

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 head0.024
GPT teacher head0.181
Teacher spread0.157 · 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
GenreOther

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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