Dépaysé: l’exil linguistique des écrivains “italiques” Antonio d’Alfonso en conversation avec Alessandra Ferraro
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In 1978, Antonio D’Alfonso founded the publishing house Guernica in Montreal, which published in three languages; with Filippo Salvatore and Fulvio Caccia, he then participated in the birth of Italian-Canadian literature and, with works in English and French, he became a major figure in this artistic movement. In 2021, he inaugurated a more intimate, autobiographical vein (Outside Looking In, Dépaysé) and published an essay, notably “Federazione per il futuro”, where he explores the evolution of the “italic”culture produced in the context of Italian emigration. The conversation is about this culture of which the Italian-Canadian intellectual is the spokesman. Ferraro’s exchanges with D’Alfonso, born within the activities organized by the Centro di Cultura Canadese in Udine, enriched over the years by correspondence and meetings in Montreal, have made it possible to deepen and define the key aspects of his thought and work. His condition as an exile, from a geographical, cultural and linguistic point of view, pushed Antonio D’Alfonso to reflect on his composite identity, to create multilingual and transmedial works and to forge the notion of “italics” to bring out, by trying to define it, the invisible production of Italian writers abroad, children of this emigration that emptied Italy for decades. The loss of their country and their culture of origin intimately marked the emigrants and their children, giving the works born in this context characteristics that derive from this deterritorialization.
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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 | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.010 | 0.008 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.007 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 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".