“Five Little Indians: A Narration of Trauma and Witnessing”
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Residential schools operated in Canada from 1876 to 1996 on the intention to assimilate Indigenous children to Euro-Canadian culture. Under the authority of the Indian Act (1876), Indigenous children were taken away from their parents and sent to these schools. The trauma that these children experienced as a result of physical, mental, and sexual abuse at these residential schools is reflected in Michelle Good’s novel Five Little Indians (2020). This novel is based on Judith Herman’s conception of trauma and Shoshana Felman and Dori Laub’s notions of witnessing and testimony, which support the idea a literary work can bear witness to historical incidents that occurred at residential schools in Canada. The various characters in Good’s novel describe their experiences of these schools and follows their lives after escaping or completing their schooling. Each character narrates their stories and describes their plight during and after their time at a residential school. As such, the chapter will further discuss how the novel’s characters exhibit traumatic symptoms as a result of the hardships they experienced.
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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 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.043 | 0.020 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.009 |
| 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".