Death, Rebirth and Considerations of the ‘Indigenous’ in Kathleen Winter’s Annabel
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article examines Annabel, a novel by Canadian author Kathleen Winter, through a decolonial lens infused with a consideration of Native Canadian survival, resistance, and rebirth. This reading stratagem enables one to understand how the main character, intersex individual Wayne/Annabel, may suggest how principles of Indigenous resistance can aid an understanding of intersex and gendered identities.. Moreover, this paper brings together a focus on perceived cultural death (a strategy employed historically by the Canadian government, as in the case of residential schools, to justify horrendous policies to ‘save’ Indigenous cultures through assimilation) and intersex/gendered ‘death’ (a death enforced by society’s refusal to accept and give life to the latter via recognition and understanding) in order to suggest how rebirth and a denial of death take place through new theoretical examinations. The article departs from previous readings of Annabel, which, to this point, have focused mainly on the novel’s general call for an acceptance of difference and on its possibility of providing ecocritical commentary. Rather, this paper is a call to embrace and create theories that disregard death (that is, the perceived death of both Indigenous nations and individuals whose intersex identity is not given life by those who adhere to ‘normative’ societal identities) and provide new strategies for reading sexual and gendered identities through a lens shaped by a recognition of the continuance of Indigenous life. In particular, the article revisits the principles of rebirth and resistance revealed by the Canadian Native Renaissance of the 1960s and 1970s and blends the latter with a consideration of intersex and gender realities. In doing so, the paper proposes a fresh theoretical outlook and tact for reading intersex and gendered identities through a consideration of Indigeneity.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.042 | 0.045 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.007 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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 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".