Afiyah, Nur (2012) The contruction of beauty in Toni Marrison"s the Blust eye / Nur Afiyah. Diploma thesis, Universitas Negeri Malang.
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Keywords Beauty colonization power majority minority Franks et.al (2008) claims that colonization often results in poor power relation between the colonizer and the colonized which is likely to lead into negative stereotypes against the colonized. This in turn affects the colonized identity construction. The thesis discusses about the colonial construction of beauty to analyze the novel written by Toni Morrison The Bluest Eye (1970). In the case of beauty construction the colonizer wants the Blacks to develop their self images as ugly and unequal compared to the Whites. Yancy (2005) asserts that whiteness is beautiful blackness is ugly. Because whiteness is pure blackness is impure . The relationship between the colonizer and the colonized is ambivalent because the colonized subject is never completely opposed to the colonizer. This thesis concerns on the analysis of two main characters Pecola and Claudia in perceiving the white beauty construction. Both of them perceive the construction differently Pecola quickly follows it while Claudia does not. However these two opposing characters represent the same struggle for their existence in order to be accepted in the White society and no longer marginalized. To support the analysis this thesis discusses three important concepts of colonial problems including constructed concept of beauty by colonizer power of dominance and also concept of inequality in order to address the incapability of both main characters in constructing their beauty concept. Moreover the way post-colonial theory contributes to the construction of new identity and beauty perceived by the blacks will be discussed in detail through this thesis. The conclusion of the analysis shows that both main characters in the novel cannot successfully construct and resist their own beauty concept which they hold for a quite long time however they are successful to be different from their excolonizer. This is because no one could be identically the same both physically and psychologically because the nature of adopting the white ethic will be never very far from mockery. An almost the same but not quite would stand for the result of this concept. Moreover the minority groups in particular the Blacks are subordinated in terms of power and privilege to the majority or dominant group. In short there will be no use of mimicking other dominant group s appearances since we have our own uniqueness compared to each other.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Diploma) |
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| Subjects: | ?? ?? |
| Divisions: | Fakultas Sastra (FS) > Departemen Sastra Inggris (ING) > S1 Bahasa dan Sastra Inggris |
| Depositing User: | library UM |
| Date Deposited: | 11 Jul 2012 04:29 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Sep 2012 03:00 |
| URI: | http://repository.um.ac.id/id/eprint/245196 |
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