Hyphens, Boundaries and Third Spaces: Identity and Cultural Politics in Afro-Caribbean-Canadian Writing
Bibliographic record
Abstract
«Hyphens, Boundaries and Third Spaces: Identity and Cultural Politics in Afro-CaribbeanCanadian Writing». This paper intends to show that Afro-Caribbean-Canadian writers use the indeterminacy of the cultural/national in-between to reconceptualise the position of the Afrosporic subject in Canada, since the dominant ambivalence of this space allows them to inhabit a continuous oscillation between the preservation of difference and the pursuit of similarity. Firstly, the definition of the term transculture provides the scene in which to root contemporary Afro-Caribbean-Canadian writing. Secondly, a diachronic sketch through such a cultural manifestation by resorting to the works of its most representative figure, Austin Clarke, shows how the field has been shifting to reach the present stage of textual diversity, which precludes the firm constitution of the field itself. Finally, I briefly turn to the concept of the third space of intervention, which is a necessary condition for the enunciation of difference in a transcultural frame that counteracts the paradigm of diversity brought to light by the 1988 Canadian Multicultural Act.
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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 | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| 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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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".