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Funny Boy: Dismantling the System of Carnal and Racial Autocracy

2025· article· en· W4411463946 on OpenAlex
Sunita Kumari, Yasmeen Mughal

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Bibliographic record

VenueInternational Journal For Multidisciplinary Research · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicSouth Asian Cinema and Culture
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSubalternGender studiesSociologyCharacter (mathematics)PoliticsPower (physics)Sexual orientationRace (biology)TamilHuman sexualityEthnic groupEgalitarianismMasculinityFemininityBattleHistoryPolitical scienceLawLiteratureAnthropologyArt

Abstract

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The horrific ethnic clashes between the minority Tamils and the majority Sinhalese in Sri Lanka during the early 1980s are the backdrop for Shyam Selvadurai’s novel, Funny Boy (1994). Selvadurai is a Sri Lankan-Canadian writer. Six chronologically related stories that center on the subaltern core character's gender, sexual orientation, and race make up the novel. Arjun Chelvaratnam, also known as Arjie, is the main character. He comes from a Tamil minority household and is subjected to strict and oppressive rules from his patriarchal family, which prevents him from engaging in his passion of cross-dressing. These rules are contrasted with a string of tragic ethnic conflicts that occur throughout the nation. Because of his non-traditional sexual orientation, Arjie feels sexually uncomfortable in his own family and faces political limits due to his race. This research seeks to investigate Arjie's battle to liberate himself from the constraints of gender and desirability and accept his emerging sexuality. Michel Foucault's concept of power is also referred to in order to obtain theoretical insight into the process of gendered "othering" and to provide critical opinions on the marginalization of the third gender as a power discourse in society.

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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)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.784
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
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 head0.082
GPT teacher head0.421
Teacher spread0.339 · 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