Bibliographic record
Abstract
The current scenario of post-colonial literature is extremely diverse, with several examples of famous African, Canadian, Indian, Latin-American, Australian writers, all seeking to represent and often question their cultural identity. The list of authors who feature the negative or positive influences that their cultures suffered and suffer through the process of colonization to the present day is immeasurable, however, Australian literature is an exciting object for postcolonial studies due to its uniqueness. Australian Aboriginal writer Mudrooroo, for example, presents us with Wild cat falling (1965), a novel in which for the first time in the history of Australian literature the Aboriginal minority is represented as protagonist. The experiences selected by the author to represent the Aboriginal condition in contemporary Australia involve social exclusion and crime, but also the search for an identity. The objective of this study is to analyze the construction of Aboriginal identity in this novel, given largely by clashes between the protagonist, who recognizes himself as belonging to this ethnic group, and the whites with whom he lives in Australia today. Although these conflicting relationships are presented as an echo of the old colonial situation, some essentialisms are deconstructed in search of a transformed coexistence. The theme of the journey in search for ancestral values, especially through the Dreamtime phenomenon, around which the entire narrative is built, signals the fact that culture is “a source of identity,” raising “recent returns to it and to tradition” (SAID, 2011, p. 12). But Mudrooroo portrays this return by focusing on the processes of hybridity and cultural translation his protagonist goes through. The result is that the character feels more reinvigorated and reconciled with his cultural heritage at the end of the narrative, being ready to face what is going to happen to him next.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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".