Voices of the other: children's literature and the postcolonial context
Bibliographic record
Abstract
General Editor's Forward Preface Contributors Introduction Roderick McGillis Section I: Theory 1. Rethinking the Identity of Cultural Otherness: Discourse of Difference as an Unfinished Project Shaobo Xie 2. We are the world, we are the children: Semiotics of Seduction in International Children's Relief Efforts Nancy Ellen Batty 3. View from the Center: British Empire and Post-Empire Children's Literature Peter Hunt and Karen Sands 4. Continuity, Fissure, or Dysfunction: From Settler Society to Multicultural Society in Australian Fiction John Stephens 5. Text, Culture, and Postcolonial Children's Literature: A Comparative Perspective Jean Webb Section II: Colonialism 6. Saved by the World: Textuality and Colonization Nineteenth-Century Texts for Children Clare Bradford 7. Making Princesses, Remaking A Little Princess Mavis Reimer 8. Colonial Canada's Young Adult Short Adventure Fiction: Hunting Tale Jean Stringam 9. Lies my Children's Books Taught me: History Meets Popular Culture in The American Girls Books Daniel Hade Section III: Postcolonialism and Neocolonialism 10. Bedtime Stories: Canadian Multiculturalism and Children's Literature Louise Saldanha 11. Multiculturalism in Canadian Children's Books: Embarrassments of History Dieter Petzold 12. Initiation for the Nation: Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Writing for Children Oliver Lovesey 13. Wrestling with the Past: Young Adult Novels of Buchi Emecheta Alida Allison 14. And the Celt Knew the Indian: Knowingness, Postcolonialism, Children's Literature Roderick McGillis 15. Reviving or Revising Helen Bannerman's Story of Little Black Sambo: Postcolonial Hero or Signifying Monkey Jan Susina Afterword: Merits and Demerits of the Postcolonial Approach to Writings in English Victor J. Ramraj Index
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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 | 0.004 | 0.010 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.005 | 0.009 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.015 | 0.019 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.019 | 0.010 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.006 | 0.008 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.020 | 0.002 |
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".