Traffic jams across the borders: travelling, dwelling, and the case of Indian Canadian fiction
Bibliographic record
Abstract
espanolEste ensayo explora las dimensiones teoricas de “la frontera” como tropo para estudiar la presente condicion de movilidad, real y figurada, entre naciones y culturas, asi como su aplicabilidad en el campo de la narrativa contemporanea canadiense de la diaspora. La propia nacion canadiense ha sido, de un modo implicito, fundada en esa nocion de ‘diaspora.’ Su simbolo oficial, el mosaico (deliberadamente diferente al crisol americano), es explicitamente diasporico, pues se basa en la existencia de agrupaciones sociales y culturales que mantienen identificaciones fuera del espacio y el tiempo de lo nacional. Este articulo analiza los efectos del enfasis contemporaneo en la movilidad y en el cruce de fronteras sobre las nociones de cultura e identidad. Mi estudio se centra en ejemplos de la narrativa indocanadiense reciente, pues parece paradigmatica de estos cambios y de la validez de las teorias “fronterizas” en el analisis de los textos de la diaspora tanto dentro como fuera de Canada. EnglishThis essay intends to bring together the theoretical dimensions of borders as trope for the condition of movement, physical and/or metaphorical, across nations and cultures and the field of contemporary Canadian diasporic fiction. It could be argued that Canada as a nation has been implicitly founded on the notion of diaspora. Its official icon of the mosaic (purportedly different from the American assimilationist melting pot) is explicitly diasporic in content, since it obviously depends on modes of social and cultural bonding that maintain identifications outside the national time/space. I intend to explore the implications of the contemporary emphasis on movement and border crossing for the notions of culture, identity and home. My discussion will draw on the examples provided by Indian Canadian fiction for it seems paradigmatic of the present transformation of the national literature as well as of the validity of applying border theories to the diasporic text in Canada and elsewhere
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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) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| 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".