At the Mouth of the River: Shame, Secrecy, and Intergenerational Trauma in Newfoundland
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In this dissertation, I engage with theories of intergenerational trauma to explore the psychic dynamics of loss and memory in Newfoundland. This inquiry works to unearth the complex historic and social conditions that contextualize ongoing legacies of social injury in Newfoundland. I explore the many ways that Newfoundlanders grapple with the messy contradictions of trauma through aesthetic expression, resilience and love. I ask: in what ways has trauma demanded a kind of suspension between spaces, both temporal and cognitive, in Newfoundland culture? How and why do historic losses define Newfoundland culture, identity, politics and industry today?This dissertation swims in the slippery waters of secrecy, shame and silence that define intergenerational trauma in Newfoundland. Working with theories of trauma, I explore how enigmatic memories move through the generations across relational, embodied, cultural and ecological passageways. By turning to the aesthetic archive of Newfoundland film, folklore and art, this dissertation traces the affective, relational, and sociopolitical legacies of trauma in Newfoundland as they move through somatic, relational, familial, cultural, and ecological passageways. Importantly, I consider how these legacies are rooted in transnational histories that have shaped the cultural landscape of this island, including the Atlantic slave trade, settler colonialism, and resource extraction. In doing so, I propose methods for attuning us to the paradoxical tensions of silence that resound through Newfoundland culture. Such methods lay the foundation for an analysis of the way in which historical contexts such as colonialism, slavery, resource extraction, poverty, rurality, and religion continue to define contemporary Newfoundland life through shame and silence. In this dissertation, I seek a range of modes for listening to transgenerational silences to working through cultural shame and to imagine radical change.
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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 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.014 | 0.014 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.007 |
| 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".