Marginalisation and the construction of South-Asian identity in novels by Rohinton Mistry, Shyam Selvadurai and Moyez Vassanji
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The three texts analysed in this thesis are A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry, Funny Boy by Shyam Selvadurai and No New Land by Moyez Vassanji. These novels represent characters who experience different types of marginalisation that mediate their South-Asian identity, marginalisation based on caste, class, gender, sexual orientation, race, language and exile. These novels suggest that marginalisation can take place at home or abroad, for the stories are set in India, Sri Lanka and Canada. The thesis discusses the role of diasporic writing in constructing a sense of South-Asian identity. I explore the way these fictional works by South-Asian Canadian writers construct the identity of different minority groups such as women, untouchables, homosexuals, and immigrants through realism and cultural memory. This thesis is divided into three chapters in which marginalisation will be examined in its various forms."--Résumé abrégé par UMI
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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 | 0.002 | 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 | 0.014 | 0.017 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 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".