The Portrayal of the Polish-Lithuanian Peasantry in British Travel Memoirs, 1764-1795
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This article examines Margaret Atwood’s 1972 novel Surfacing as a complex narrative of self-discovery, conceptualized here as an ‘ecology of self’. The analysis posits that the unnamed protagonist’s psychological healing is achieved through an ecofeminist immersion in the Canadian wilderness, which functions as a simultaneous confrontation with repressed personal trauma and a postcolonial rejection of patriarchal, consumerist ideology, metaphorically termed ‘Americanism’. This study employs an integrated theoretical framework of ecofeminism, psychoanalysis, and postcolonialism to argue that these are not discrete but interlocking systems of oppression. The paper’s original contribution lies in its comparative analysis, which reveals profound thematic resonances between Atwood’s Canadian narrative and the cultural and historical experience of the Baltic states. By comparing the novel’s exploration of identity formation against a hegemonic neighbour, the role of nature in national resilience, and the recovery from collective trauma with the post-Soviet Baltic context, this study establishes Surfacing as a work of transnational significance, offering a powerful model for post-oppression identity formation relevant to the Baltic region.
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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 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.009 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| 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".