"Deconstructing Binaries?" A postcolonial perspective on selected contemporary Slovenian-Northamerican texts
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Abstract
This dissertation aims to offer a postcolonial reading of Ted Kramolc's novel Potica za navadni dan/A Potica For an Ordinary Day (1997) and Sarah Stonich's novel These Granite Islands (2001), as well as give some general insight into contemporary Slovenian diasporic literatures in the USA and Canada.The selected texts are analyzed considering narrative techniques, thematic structures, symbols, imagery, implied world views, and epistemological systems.The focus lies on the transfer of imperialist epistemologies, the concepts of hybridity, third space, the subaltern, and binary oppositions such as centermargin, civilized-primitive, past-present, self-other, especially with regard to how these ideas influence the formation of national and individual identities, as well as the dynamic nature of cultural heritage.The analysis shows that, despite initial appearances of the opposite, Kramolc's novel is an attempt at the deconstruction of binary oppositions, whereas Stonich's novel transports dualistic epistemologies.they nevertheless allow for some form of strategic essentialism if it is considered individually in each new context.Considering the size of Slovenia, Slovenian diasporic literature has relatively much to offer in terms of (auto)biographies, diaries, missionary-and travel reports, fiction, as well as a wide range of other miscellaneous writing.Nevertheless, there have been comparatively few scientific studies published on this topic, in part probably because it wasand still remainsa politically sensitive issue.The first anthology of Slovenian-
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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) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
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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.
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