Bibliographic record
Abstract
Unlike the United States, Argentina does not have a genre in literature and film comparable to the “Western” in the United States (or the “Northern” in Canada), which glorifies and romanticizes colonial expansion and the conquest of Indigenous lands and peoples. This chapter draws on José Hernández’s Martín Fierro, as a case study to explore the interlacing of epic and power in Argentine cultural history. Published in two parts in 1872 and 1879, the poem has sparked numerous debates on the uses and meanings of the epic, largely due to its own ambiguity: while the first part is an anti-epic critique of state violence against rural inhabitants known as gauchos, the second part, in the mode of national epic, shows the assimilation of gauchos into the liberal state. Both parts circulated among the working classes, but it was not until the turn of the century that conservative elites strategically turned a quarrelsome gaucho into a paradigmatic hero, and canonized the poem as a self-legitimatizing story of Argentine nationalism and modernity. Focusing on literary and cinematic adaptations of the poem, this chapter examines how and why Martín Fierro has been used for different ideological and political purposes up until today.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.120 | 0.026 |
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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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".