| dc.description.abstract | SULA, a novel written by Toni Morrison, tells about a black woman who
rebels against the patriarchal system, racial oppression and class discrimination as
the conventional values in Bottom society, where the blacks live.This thesis
focuses on Sula’s Rebellion against the black conventional values as the indicator
of her feminist spirit in Toni Morrison’s Sula.Sula as the main female character
breaks and rebels the conventional values surrounding her. The strongest
influential factors that shape and influence Sula’s rebellion are coming from the
society, family and friednship. She breaks the patriarchal culture and the racial
problems within her society by rejecting marriage and having free sexual partner.
For those reasons, Sula is named a pariah and evil. Therefore, this novel is
interesting to analyze because the story of the novel teaches us many things in
life, especially about black woman struggle.
Using Marxist theory and sociological approach, they give a series
explanation on how the economic power determines the consciousness and the
existence of men. The main source of all oppression is indeed the higher
economic people to oppress the lower economic people. The Bottom society is
dominated by the ideology of white which put the black as the lower economic
people live in the wrong system of oppression, especially black women. The
applied literary theory, Black Feminism is taken to give a clear reading over the
black women as the victims of oppression. It is used to talk about patriarchal
system and racialism as the idea of feminism spirit in Tony Morrison’s Sula.
Having pressed down by the white ideology and neglected by the white feminist,
racial issues become the lead issues for black woman.
The research is done through library research that uses data from libraries
and cybernetic resources. Here, the method of analysis is inductive method. It
analyzes the data from specific cases to a general conclusion. Furthermore, In
terms of theory, Afro-American feminism The goal of composing this thesis is to
make clear understanding and detailed analysis of the main female character’s
rebellion seen in the novel and how her rebellion reflects feminism. Moreover,
this is significant to understand Afro-American women and their struggle against
oppression of patriarchal system and racial problems in their society. With
expectation, most black women finally have the consciousness of the wrong
system that lock their chance to have the same occasion in many aspect of life.
Moreover, they are already able to behave and act freely in their society with no
segregations and any label of dissimilarity in many aspects of life. | en_US |
