Chilean Identity Performativity in Carmen Aguirre’s Chile Con Carne and The Refugee Hotel: Narrative Evidence of the Shortcomings of Canada’s Multiculturalism Discourse
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Abstract
Theatre, especially the alternative theatres of immigrant communities, can ask its audience to question social inequities and to seek socio-political change. In my MRP, I use Butler’s theory of performativity and Brechtian distanciation to analyze nuanced Chilean exilic identity depictions in Carmen Aguirre’s plays: Chile con Carne and The Refugee Hotel. I find that Aguirre’s politically engaged theatre functions as a visceral and compelling counter-narrative that challenges the dominant discourse of Canadian multiculturalism inclusivity. Ultimately, identity performativity, coupled with Brechtian techniques, allows Canadian audiences to understand the nuanced multiplicity and hybridity of Chilean-Canadian lived experiences as fundamentally Canadian narratives that belong, on their own terms, in a pluralistic Canadian society. Keywords: Chilean; Exile; Performativity; Identity; Intersectionality; Theatre; Multiculturalism Discourse.
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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 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.017 | 0.021 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.007 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 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".