“A Very Strange Thought”: Colonial Fantasy, Domesticity, and Property in <i>The Female American</i>
Bibliographic record
Abstract
As a female Robinsonade, The Female American casts a feminine gaze upon a landscape conventionally portrayed from and dominated by a masculine point of view. As the biracial daughter of an Indigenous American princess and an English plantation owner, she also performs a self-consciously hybrid identity that at once augments and complicates her performance of feminine power. In this article, I show how her constitutional “strangeness” as a travelling biracial woman unsettles the racial logic of transatl colonialism. Her liminality positions her simultaneously in the space of colonial contact and as the embodied product of that contact. At once capable of empathizing, communicating, and identifying with Indigenous and enslaved people in her midst, she nevertheless occupies positions that grant her access to the privilege of property, including enslaved Indigenous people. Her disruptive presence exposes the tense lines of ideological and material violence that uphold and also link domestic and colonial tyranny.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 teacher head, 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".