| dc.description.abstract | This thesis discusses the African American or colonized people’s response
to the colonial culture, which is drawn in Beloved. It also discusses how the author
expresses her colonialism resistances through the characters and symbols in the
novel. The discussion of colonial resistance is taken from the text of the novel
itself. The scope of the study is focused on textual analysis.
The approach to use in this thesis is post-colonialism approach. This thesis
takes three main post-colonial issues to analyse the topic. They are Orientalism,
Postcolonial Remembering, and Hybridity.
This thesis uses inductive method to discuss and analyse the fact about
symbols and the Negro characters’ action when they against colonial culture in
slave narrative. The data of this thesis are collected from reading some relevant
articles, books, and references, and constructed to make a clear and detailed
explanation about this thesis. The primary data is the novel itself. Besides the
novel as the primary data, the discussion needs another data that are relevant to
the topic discussion to support the analysis, such as books, articles, and
dictionaries.
There are several goals to gain in this thesis. The first is to show that the
awareness process of decolonisation will create self-actualisation against colonial
dominance. The second is to show the importance of communal support in the
process of self-liberation from colonialism. The third is to gain clear
understanding about the methods of the African American process of re-creating
new identity as manifestation of their resistance. | en_US |
