Sumaryani, Sri (2012) WHITE NARRATIONS, A REVELATION OF THE BLACK AND WHITE RELATION IN FAULKNER’S ABSALOM, ABSALOM!: A POSTCOLONIAL STUDY ON RACISM IN THE SOUTHERN US. S1 thesis, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta.
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Abstract
This research aims to identify racism depicted in a novel entitled Absalom, Absalom!, and to explain the characteristics of the Southern people in relation to racism revealed in the novel. The theory of racial differences in colonial and postcolonial societies by Frantz Fanon is used to answer the objectives. The research was qualitative in nature and a descriptive-qualitative method was used to analyze the data. The main source of this research was a novel entitled Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner. The data were some phrases, clauses, sentences, and expressions related to racism and characteristics of the white Southern people in relation to racism found in the novel. The data analysis was conducted through six steps: identifying, reading and re-reading, coding and categorizing, and sorting the data, making the interrelation between the description of the data and the theory, and making an interpretation of the findings. To obtain trustworthiness, the researcher used intra-rater technique and peer debriefing method. The findings of this research show that there are three aspects seen through the narrations of the white Southerners which depict racist treatments towards Blacks: the use of language, the relationship, and the symbolization. First, White Southerners use language as a means to create negative images towards Blacks and to show Whites’ supremacy through the use of derogatory terms and the standard use of courtesy titles. Second, the relationship between Blacks and Whites tends to spoil Blacks. Black women are regarded as objects by white men while black men are considered dangerous and polluting the white women’s purity and honor. Third, the skin color of Blacks symbolizes animals and sexual threats for white race. The three aspects are used by White Southerners as a means to subjugate Blacks. Meanwhile, the white Southerners, represented by the narrators and other white characters in the novel, are portrayed as being proud of their race and religiously hypocritical. The pride is represented by their unchanged attitudes and treatments towards Blacks as a means to hold White supremacy after the end of the Civil War while their hypocrisy is shown by the use of religious values that have been twisted to legitimize their racist treatments towards Blacks.
| Item Type: | Thesis (S1) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | white narrations, a postcolonial study, absalom, absalom! |
| Subjects: | Bahasa dan Sastra > Bahasa dan Sastra Inggris |
| Divisions: | Fakultas Bahasa, Seni dan Budaya (FBSB) > Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris > Sastra Inggris |
| Depositing User: | Admin Pendidikan Bahasa Inggris FBS |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Jun 2015 02:08 |
| Last Modified: | 29 Jan 2019 23:54 |
| URI: | http://eprints.uny.ac.id/id/eprint/21191 |
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