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Record W4388008194 · doi:10.56062/gtrs.2023.2.07.424

‘National Identity’ In Yvonne Vera’s Without A Name – A Study

2023· article· en· W4388008194 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
P. Kannan

Bibliographic record

VenueCreative Saplings · 2023
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicAfrican studies and sociopolitical issues
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsIndependence (probability theory)CommonwealthColonialismEthnic groupIdentity (music)National identityGender studiesHistorySociologyGenealogyMedia studiesLawAnthropologyArtPolitical sciencePoliticsAesthetics

Abstract

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Zimbabwean author Yvonne Vera is well known. She was created in Bulawayo. She attended a university in Canada where she studied and earned a master's degree. She was the National Gallery's Director at the time. Why Don't Carve Other Animals? a 1992 publication of short stories, marked the beginning of her creative writing career. After that, she published five books: Nehanda (1993), Without a Name (1994), Under the Tongue (1996), Butterfly Burning (1998), and The Stone Virgins (2002). She also received the Commonwealth Writers Prize for the Africa Region for her book Under the Tongue. Vera frequently discusses the effects of colonial authority on Zimbabwe's ethnic group in her works, as well as the failure of women's hopes to gain Independence. Vera has made an effort to illustrate the colonial tactic of eliminating Zimbabwe's ethnic identity and establishing a colonial identity in Without A Name. Without a Name makes an attempt to analyze how Zimbabwe loses her ethnic name.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.254
Threshold uncertainty score0.998

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.065
GPT teacher head0.439
Teacher spread0.374 · 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 teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
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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