The Streets, de Marlene Nourbese Philip: denuncia y redención de la Historia
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper offers an analysis of The Streets, a short play framed within the essay “Dis Place—The Space Between”, by Afro-Caribbean-Canadian author Marlene Nourbese Philip. The play follows the argument developed in the essay, namely, that the sign “woman”, and more specifically that of “black woman” has been expelled from the “outer space” or social sphere and, as a consequence, has been erased from historiography as well as from a particular instance of the writing of Philip herself. Tackling most of the themes which are a constant source of preoccupation for the author, the essay searches for the reasons for that suppression or silencing, as well as for the means of overcoming it. The Streets operates as a symbolic redemption of that suppression. The play, incomplete and fragmented, recovers the historical figure of the jamette, a black woman ‘of loose morals’ who through her heterodox behaviour manages to sidestep the reclusion within her “inner space” devised for the black woman by the secular connivance of patriarchy and white hegemony.
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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 | 0.010 | 0.020 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 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".