Geopoetics and Geopolitics in Connie T. Braun’s <i>Silentium and Other Reflections on Memory, Sorrow, Place, and the Sacred</i>
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Abstract
The aim of this contribution is to look at Silentium And Other Reflections On Memory, Sorrow, Place, and the Sacred (2017) written by Connie T. Braun in the context of thematic and formal approach to life writing. The analysis will be informed by the concepts of Elżbieta Rybicka’s geopoetics and Dorota Kozicka’s definition of travel writing, both of which dialogically correspond with Marianne Hirsch’s notion of postmemory. It is through Braun’s travels to Poland and the life writing practices resulting from it that she retraces her family’s past through memory, delving into the troubled Polish and Mennonite history, and a self-imposed scrutiny. As a person belonging to the “generations of postmemory” (Hirsch 2012), Braun also relies on shards of memory gathered and inherited from her closest relatives, whose painful recollections also determine her narrative. In order to offer a rendition of her identity as a Canadian Mennonite rooted in Poland, she calls for an experimental form of palimpsestic travelogue which turns out to be a fusion of essays, poetry, and fragmented historical and personal narratives. The text also interrogates Braun’s self-positioning as a Canadian of Central and Eastern European as well as German-Dutch Mennonite extraction.
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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 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.009 | 0.029 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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".