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From Silence to Excess

2025· book-chapter· en· W4414493490 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Jade Jenkinson

Bibliographic record

VenueUniversity Press of Mississippi eBooks · 2025
Typebook-chapter
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicHistorical and Contemporary Political Dynamics
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsSilenceIndigenousWrightNarrativeMainstreamStorytellingHogan

Abstract

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This chapter explores the creation and development of horror through the tropes of silence and excess, focusing on 1990s novels by Linda Hogan (Chickasaw), Eden Robinson (Haisla/Heiltsuk) and Alexis Wright (Waanyi). The chapter demonstrates how silence and excess exhibit the underlying principles and stylistic advancements of the broader genre, which the author coins as Indigenous Educational Gothic. Indigenous Educational Gothic responds to the horrifying historical realities of Indigenous schooling in the US, Canada and Australia, and these narratives are often told through the eyes of young female protagonists. Silence and excess expand the parameters of horror in tandem with and informed by Indigenous resurgence, “grounded normativity,” and authors’ specific storytelling traditions. Ultimately, the chapter examines how literature can ethically and profoundly engage with dark historical narratives and it initiates a dialogue on Indigenous horror within mainstream literature and how this responds to implications surrounding readership and positionality.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.008
Threshold uncertainty score0.027

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0080.022
Scholarly communication0.0060.006
Open science0.0010.006
Research integrity0.0010.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.001

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 head0.028
GPT teacher head0.186
Teacher spread0.158 · 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

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

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".

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