Minority Models: An Analysis of Asian American Sentiment in Drama
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This thesis explores Asian American playwrights’ resistance against Asian American stereotypes of silence and compares their rhetorical and semantic techniques to those of White American playwrights. It applies a digital humanities approach to the analysis of spoken emotions as expressed by a vast corpus of Asian American plays. Methods include a comparative topic model of the two ethnic corpuses and a sentiment analysis using a dictionary tailored to the corpus of late 20th century Asian American and White American plays using a Naïve Bayesian model. The thesis seeks to place the Asian American theater corpus in history and in American literary tradition as a piece of cultural activist resistance and community reclamation. Sentiment analyses and topic models reveal the semantic nuance to the subtle emotional activism used by Asian American playwrights.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Date created | May 10, 2017 |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Lee, Mirae |
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| Degree granting institution | Stanford University, Department of English |
| Primary advisor | Algee-Hewitt, Mark |
| Advisor | Moya, Paula |
Subjects
| Subject | Department of English |
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| Subject | digital humanities |
| Subject | Asian American |
| Subject | Asian American theater |
| Subject | drama |
| Subject | sentiment analysis |
| Subject | topic modeling |
| Genre | Thesis |
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- Lee, Mirae. (2017). Minority Models: An Analysis of Asian American Sentiment in Drama. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/cq155jv9479
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