A Discourse and Statistical Approach to Intersections of Gender and Race in Melville's Typee
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- abstract
- In this paper, I approach Melville’s first book, Typee, under the auspices of excavating Melville’s conceptions of gender in this early stage of his career. I enfold the influence of Western colonial and racial beliefs into this treatment so as to create an intersectional analysis. My approach is through macroscopic analysis in which I collect and classify a variety of semantic proclivities of Melville’s narrator so as to produce a more attuned and granular picture of Melville’s understanding of gender, as shadowed by colonialism and race.
- subject
- Corpus
- Feminism
- Gender
- Melville
- Race
- Typee
- contributor
- Farmer, Meredith (committee chair)
- Farmer, Meredith (committee member)
- Lancaster, Zak (committee member)
- Maine, Barry (committee member)
- date
- 2020-05-29T08:35:43Z (accessioned)
- 2020-05-29T08:35:43Z (available)
- 2020 (issued)
- degree
- English (discipline)
- identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10339/96801 (uri)
- language
- en (iso)
- publisher
- Wake Forest University
- title
- A Discourse and Statistical Approach to Intersections of Gender and Race in Melville's Typee
- type
- Thesis