“Mixed up in this amazing fecundity” Persistenze ecosistemiche e vitalistico-ancestrali in Gardening in the Tropics di Olive Senior
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This paper focuses on Gardening in the Tropics (1994), the second poetry collection by Olive Senior, a contemporary Jamaican-born Canadian author. Taking its cue from the volume’s provocative title, my analysis begins by considering the meanings that should be attributed to the notion of ‘gardening’ and its historical phenomenology in the Caribbean region, in connection with both European colonization and West Indian ancestral heritage. Subsequently, attention is drawn to the ways the poems’ Creolized voices, imagery and discursive tools succeed in foregrounding the axiology, cultural roots/routes, resistance and survival strategies of Caribbean peoples. Space is also devoted to the motifs of conservation, horticulture and the ecosystem, including references to a number of indigenous or nativized plants, which Senior significantly recollects by retrieving their original (pre-Linnaean) names.
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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 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| 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; a candidate call from one teacher head, 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".