Family as the Place for National Discrimination: An Analysis of Beatrice Speraz’s Autobiography
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Abstract
This essay examines Beatrice Speraz’s autobiography, Ricordi della mia infanzia in Dalmazia (1915), which describes her childhood in Dalmatia and how the different nationalities of her parents—one Italian and the other Dalmatian—affected her life and self-perception. It looks at how the author portrayed the formation of her national identity through relational dynamics with her maternal aunt and her father and emphasizes how one of the semantic aspects of this process was eventually dismissed by the Italian side of her family. The essay delves into these issues by employing Adriana Cavarero’s understanding of relationality and contrapuntal reading as theorized by Edward Said in Culture and Imperialism (1994). Through these lenses, the essay underscores how Speraz represented her identity as the daughter of an Italian mother and a Dalmatian father, and the kind of relationship she established between her national identity, Italy and Dalmatia. Furthermore, the essay elucidates how Speraz’s familial relationships played a pivotal role in two processes: first, in fostering her belief that she was a participant in a historically equal relationship between Italians and Dalmatians; and second, in her dismissal as a “barbarian” because her father was Dalmatian.
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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 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.012 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 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.
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