THEMES OF DISPLACEMENT AND IDENTITY OF VIKRAM LALL IN M.G. VASSANJI’S NOVEL THE IN-BETWEEN WORLD OF VIKRAM LALL
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The issue of migration, displacement or dislocation is not new. From the beginning man has been moving across the globe in search of a job or for safety reasons. The In-Between World of Vikram Lall by M.G. Vassanji examines the difficulties of displacement and identity in the post-colonial Kenyan setting, where diasporic peoples' lives are shaped by historical, political, and cultural factors. Vikram Lall, the protagonist is the man divided between several identities and commitments. The journey of Vikram Lall, which reflects the larger story of South Asian immigrants in East Africa is examined in this novel. The story expertly combines themes of identity negotiation in the face of changing socio-political environments, displacement and belonging.In his novel The In-Between World of Vikram Lall Vassanji uses the idea of migration both psychological and physical to emphasize the conflict and confusion that diasporic people go through. The protagonist Vikram battles to settle his mixed identity arose between his colonial Kenyan childhood, his Indian ancestry, and his ultimate banishment to Canada. His journey is placed within the larger framework of Kenyan history and the effects of colonialism, which highlights how the personal and political intertwine to shape diasporic identities in the novel.
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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 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.018 | 0.019 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.004 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| 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".