Bridges across Chasms: Towards a Transcultural Future in Caribbean Literature
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Abstract
he twenty-nine essays collected here were contributions to the twenty-third ASNEL conference that was held in Aachen and Lige from 31st May to 4th June 2000.The theme of the conference was "Towards a Transcultural Future: Literature and Society in a 'Post'-Colonial World."During five days some 200 papers and talks were given by creative writers as well as critics on various post-colonial topics.The present volume offers a selection of the essays dealing with Caribbean Literature which is understood here in its widest sense, ie, as referring to authors living in the Caribbean, but also to writers of Caribbean heritage part of its diaspora, whether based in Britain, Canada or the United States.The genesis of this book, Bridges Across Chasms, undoubtedly accounts for its consistency and the recurrence in its pages of such notions as transculturality, hybridity and creolization, which clearly echo the central theme of the conference.More precisely, its Caribbean focus relates to two underlying preoccupations which interact in a fruitful tension and, as this collection testifies, trigger reflection, either creative or critical, or both.One of these is the obsession with the very real disruptions that were caused by colonization, slavery, and exile and whose effects are still with us today.The other brings to light possibilities of healing, reconciliation, and belonging, never fully achieved but an always present goal.In most contributions this tension initiates a transformative process, a crossing between a devastating past experience and perspectives of improvement in the future.This perception of the post-colonial condition as an ongoing passage provides a first explanation for the choice of "bridges across chasms" as the title of this collection.This phrase, borrowed from Wilson Harris and used by Maria Cristina Fumagalli in the title of her own essay on Derek Walcott, seems to fit this volume for other reasons discussed below.In spite of their unquestionable thematic unity, the papers in this volume present a wide array of topics and methodologies.
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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 | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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; a candidate call from one teacher head, 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".