The Otherization of Collective Identities of Both Sexes in the Blind Assassin Under the Camera Focalization
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The Blind Assassin, is the masterpiece by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, whose complex structure, various themes and identity concerns have always been the focus of controversy among literary critics. However, few of them explore the otherization of male and female characters’ collective identities in the novel through narrative focalization. Thus, based on some theories relevant to identity concerns and feminist narratology, the paper tries to investigates how camera focalization simulating objective observation——constructs and others the collective identities of both sexes through embedded news clippings. The analysis reveals that female collective identity is othered through patriarchal mechanisms and the reduction of women to decorative objects under the gaze. Meanwhile, male collective identity undergoes otherization through intra-group power struggles. Thus, the paper exposes the co-domination and the co-shaping of both sexes by masculinity and patriarchal culture, and Atwood’s advocation of decentralized gender view and harmonious relationship between the two sexes, providing a reference for the relevant studies on identity politics and narrative forms.
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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) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.011 | 0.014 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 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".