| dc.description.abstract | Clotel; Or The President’s Daughter is a novel written by William Wells Brown that was
published in 1853. This novel telss about the social condition in the case of social gap between
white and black people though slavery as the colonial effect in the United State around 1833.
This thesis uses postcolonial as the approach to show the relation between the colonizercolonized
and its result that is not just ended in the end of colonialism. It is shown in the
slavery’s contribution to the existence of the mulatto. Furthermore, this thesis applies
postcolonial theory by Homi K. Bhabha that especially takes “Otherness” and “Unhomeliness”
as a tool to identify these two feelings through Clotel as a mulatto girl and the main character of
the novel.
Mulatto is closely related to hybridity, but this novel has different focus. It refers to the
social critique about colonial effect through slavery that has big influence to the existence of the
mulatto. Even, it happened when Thomas Jefferson became an author of Independency’s
Declaration. Its condition makes this novel interesting to be choosen and analyzed. Using this
thesis I want to show to the reader how big the colonial effect influences the colonized’s
existence even it happened in the postcolonial.
In order to completely understand I conduct this thesis starts with the general idea about
the social condition of the author and the novel that is continued by the slavery role to the
existence of the mulatto and goes to the specific analysis of Otherness and Unhomeliness. The
result of the research shows that slavery gives the biggest influence to the growth of the
mulatto’s otherness and unhomeliness feeling. The white characteristics that are involved to the
mulatto does not have power to make her easily accepted in the society. | en_US |
