MétaCan
Menu
Back to cohort

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

2025· article· en· W4411463826 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

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

fetched live from OpenAlex

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.

Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.696
Threshold uncertainty score0.886

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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