Complex oppression towards sanikem as depicted in Toer's 'Earth of Mankind' (PDF)

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2010 in the subject History - Asia, grade: A, University of Airlangga, course: English Literature, language: English, abstract: ABSTRACT
Zhis paper, through postcolonial-feminist criticism, attempts to prove the existence of the oppression toward the Javanese women during the Dutch's colonialism in Indonesia. The analysis is focused to the character of Sanikem which is also known as Nyai Ontosoroh in Toer's This Earth of Mankind. Firstly it aims to know whether there is a relation between the Dutch's colonialism and the Javanese feudalism with the oppression towards Sanikem and then analyse how the dual hierarchy of the Dutch's colonialism and Javanese's feudal system contribute to the oppression. The second is to discover shifting of Sanikem's personality which makes her aware of the oppression and struggle against it. And the last is to examine whether, under the oppression, Sanikem successfully voices her rights or whether her struggles results in vain. In conducting the analysis, cultural and historical background will be applied in the thesis along with the discussion of the subaltern women in a colonized country established by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. This research applies qualitative method which means that the data is taken from the novel itself which is This Earth of Mankind, both digital and non-digital library research, journals, and other resources which are appropriate in conducting the analysis.