Cultural Nomadism By Dany Laferriere
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Dany Laferrière, a member of the Académie Française since December 2013, is a native Haitian writer who moved to Montreal during the period of the dictatorship of Duval and now lives in Miami. His first novel, Comment faire l'amour avec un Nègre sans se fatiguer, published in 1985, after having taken almost nine years to complete, was a great success. Starting with this novel, the next three, Eroshima (1987), Cette Grenade dans la main du jeune Nègre ou est-elle une arme à fruit? (1993), and Chronique de la dérive douce (1994), also address the problems of a Haitian's adaptation in North America. \nLaferrière, who is so multi-faceted and complex, the author of several novels, but also a journalist and radio reporter, highlights the various shocks he underwent when beginning to write in French in a foreign and English-speaking country, embodying the figure, rather than of the "migrant writer", of the "nomadic" writer, who deterritorializes so as to resist a definitive identity or a localization. \nThis study aims to examine the cultural contribution of Laferrière, who has always tried to avoid materializing a social identity, embodying rather a dynamic identity, and returning, in this way, to a concept dear to Edouard Glissant: identité rhizome. That is, an identity that does not have a single root, but a multiplicity of roots that come together. His status as a permanent exile can be seen as an obstacle: he is not exactly a Haitian but neither is he a Canadian. He calls himself "Américain", i.e. an inhabitant of the American continent; "un écrivain américain à qui il est arrivé tout simplement d'écrire en français", emphasizing that he belongs to a plural America because Petit-Goâve, Port-au-Prince, New York, Miami, and Montreal, are on the same continent. This America is synonymous with the New World, "un monde à la fois réel et rêvé", a plural world.
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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 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.018 | 0.016 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.006 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.001 |
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".