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Retelling the Story of Untold History: A Study on Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria

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VenueInternational Journal For Multidisciplinary Research · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicComics and Graphic Narratives
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsNarrativeCarpentariaHistorySubalternWrightGloryNarrative historyContext (archaeology)LiteratureSociologyLawArt historyArtPolitical sciencePolitics

Abstract

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History plays a significant role in preserving a nation’s cultural heritage and traditions and in shaping the collective identities of the nation’s citizens by incorporating a sense of continuity in them to identify themselves as a part of a broader historical narrative. According to some of the greatest historically significant personalities like E.H. Carr, Mark Twain, and Theodore Roosevelt, such evocative History is possible only by adding a few manipulative narratives that uphold the nation’s glory and deleting the bitter truth that distorts the nation’s glory. Such biased and fabricated historical narratives are termed as the Dominant historical narratives. As the self-explanatory term suggests, these narratives give precedence to the rulers’ perspectives and interpretations while sidelining or silencing the experiences of the Oppressed or the Subaltern. The Institutionalized Historical narratives have gained prominence, especially in Settler colonies like the United States, Canada, and Australia. In the context of Australia, its official history commenced only with the arrival of Europeans, which overlooked the existence of historical footprints of autochthonous populations. This paper strives to excavate the suppressed historical narrative of the Aborigines by closely reading Alexis Wright’s award-winning novel Carpentaria. Through this study, an attempt is made to provide a counter-historical narrative that challenges the existing authoritative Dominant colonial narrative.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.004
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.007
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.036
Threshold uncertainty score0.072

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0040.007
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0270.026
Scholarly communication0.0080.005
Open science0.0020.005
Research integrity0.0030.008
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.253
GPT teacher head0.454
Teacher spread0.201 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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".

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