Questioning the Great Narratives of War and Masculinity: The Routes and Roots of Violence in Melinda Nadj Abonji’s Novel <i>Tortoise Soldier</i> (<i>Schildkrötensoldat</i>)
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract This article analyzes the novel Tortoise Soldier by Melinda Nadj Abonji, a Swiss German writer with Vojvodina Hungarian roots, with a focus on her critique of the mechanisms of social and historical violence and its deep-seated roots in unsettled ghosts of the past haunting multiethnic communities. Those mechanisms are exemplified through the little-known fate of the Vojvodina Hungarian minority during the wars that tore apart Yugoslavia. This article argues that the violence bursting open during armed conflict has its roots as much in traditional masculinity and its destructive gender norms, which affect minorities, women, and the environment, as in the unresolved presence of a communicative memory that is used and abused to justify social and ethnic exclusion and marginalization. Nadj Abonji’s novel challenges official historical narratives while also exploring ways to process trauma and loss through a narrative coming-to-terms with grief and mourning.
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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 | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.017 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| 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".