Cultural Globalisation and Poetic Globality in a Nomadic Quebecois Writer: Dany Laferriere
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Like many writers in the postcolonial era, Dany Laferrière, born in Haiti and \nexiled in Montréal, has ambiguous, sometimes even tense relations with \nFrance. Although he himself admits that he has no problem with being \npublished by a French publisher, he refuses to measure himself against the \nrules of the literary institution of the Hexagon, denying any compromise \nwith a country that for other writers will always remain their intellectual \nhomeland. France is, therefore, absent from his literary production since \nLaferrière refuses to bow to the colonizer, as well as to the dictator. France \nis also absent from his work because he has “découvert par hasard [...] que \nHaïtiétaiten Amérique et non en France”, which led him to the point of \nwishing that Haiti “se place sous la bannière américaine” rather than the \nFrench one. Nevertheless, since 2013, Dany Laferrière has occupied the \nchair of Hector Bianciotti in the Académie Française. He is the first \nCaribbean and North American writer to enter the Coupole”. \n“France”; “Montréal”; “Haïti”; “French language”; “Francophonie”
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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 | 0.001 | 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 | 0.021 | 0.011 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.009 | 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".