Bibliographic record
Abstract
In this chapter, I argue that Nduka Otiono and Amatoritsero Ede, both Nigerian-Canadian writers, negotiate dual homelands by writing their “place” in both Nigeria and Canada through the discursive spaces of the Niger Delta and Black Canada. As writers who constitute the new African diaspora, it is important to engage with their uniquely Niger Delta and Canadian perspectives. I position both writers as active agents in the construction of their dual national spaces from the position of marginality. I demonstrate how Otiono and Ede integrate notions of home as both a distant fact and an immediate reality in such a way that what Monica Popescu calls “affective temporal structures” accentuate the temporal perspectives of the Niger Delta and the immigrant subject-position of Black Canada at the same time. I also show how home slides between temporalities, spaces, places, and realities in a form of “trans-spatiotemporality” that is present in the poetry of Otiono and Ede. Ultimately, I underscore a unique aesthetic associated with the Niger Delta identity in the complex and heterogenous space of new African diasporic writing.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| 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 | 0.014 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| 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".