Discursive Boundaries: Characterization of Male and Female Characters in Dutch Novels, 1960s vs 2010s.

To what extent has the novel fostered social change? This paper examines the role of Dutch novels in the history women's emancipation between the 1960s and the 2010s. Comparing the discourse around both male and female characters, it concludes that the literary discourse around gender has not significantly changed in this period. As such, it rejects the hypothesis that the distance between male and female literary discourse decreases between the 1960s and the 2010s. Thus, the discourse around gender in novels has stable boundaries that has not transformed in parallel with the social changes of... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Roel Smeets
Dokumenttyp: conferencePaper
Erscheinungsdatum: 2023
Schlagwörter: novels / dutch literature / text mining / gender / discourse / keyword analysis
Sprache: unknown
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To what extent has the novel fostered social change? This paper examines the role of Dutch novels in the history women's emancipation between the 1960s and the 2010s. Comparing the discourse around both male and female characters, it concludes that the literary discourse around gender has not significantly changed in this period. As such, it rejects the hypothesis that the distance between male and female literary discourse decreases between the 1960s and the 2010s. Thus, the discourse around gender in novels has stable boundaries that has not transformed in parallel with the social changes of women's emancipation.