Rochmawati, Rochmawati (2008) The oppressions faced by black women characters in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye. Undergraduate thesis, Universitas Islam Negeri Maulana Malik Ibrahim.
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Abstract
Woman with oppressions are the social phenomena and problem that are linked together whose existences are often heard and seen both in the real life and literary work. Nowadays, women oppressions become the important issue discussed by most of women because it is acknowledged that in our society there is the structure of oppression whereas women become the object of oppression. Women are oppressed because men and most women too consider that women are as weak creatures. In other words, men become the powerful creatures who have more privilege than women. Men can control women, that is known as patriarchy system.
Basically, both White and Black women receive the same oppression because of the image given to them, women are weak creature. Meanwhile, Black women have a slight different between them. Black women receive double oppression. Black women are not only receiving unequal privileged or disadvantages experiences caused by their gender but also by their race and class. As portrayed in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye, Black women are oppressed which is not only caused by their natural as a women but also by their differential color of skin and their class. Thus, the researcher is interested in studying women oppression which is focused on Black women in The Bluest Eye. Meanwhile, this study is aimed at finding the kinds of oppressions and the response of Black women from those oppressions.
To achieve the above objectives of the study, the researcher applies a feminist literary criticism which insists on linking the novel with the women oppression. So that, this study is involved in literary criticism because of its emphasis on the analysis of a literary work. The primary data of this study are collected from Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye. About the theory of feminism and its elements, researcher herself becomes the research instrument in the process of data collection and data analysis. Based on the researcher's analysis, the oppression faced by Black women portrayed in the novel shows four kinds of oppressions, namely social deprivation, physical, cultural, and psychological oppression. Then, there are three responses of women while facing the oppressions. Those are receiving, imitating, and rejecting the oppressions.
So that, from this study, the researcher hopes there will be other researchers who concern to this study about women whereas mostly women become the victim of oppression not only in the real life but also in literary work. Moreover, the researcher also expects, through this study, she could awaken the readers to defend the equality of women's rights by showing the women’s oppressions. Hopefully, women will realize that women need to defend the equality with men in order not be an oppression object by patriarchy system.
Item Type: | Thesis (Undergraduate) | ||||||
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Supervisor: | Masitoh, Siti | ||||||
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Keywords: | Oppressions; Black Female | ||||||
Departement: | Fakultas Humaniora > Jurusan Bahasa dan Sastra Inggris | ||||||
Depositing User: | Dian Anesti | ||||||
Date Deposited: | 16 Aug 2016 12:06 | ||||||
Last Modified: | 16 Aug 2016 12:06 | ||||||
URI: | http://etheses.uin-malang.ac.id/id/eprint/4519 |
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