Tesis : Christina Dewi Tri Murwani - Maspaul.com
Tesis : Christina Dewi Tri Murwani - Maspaul.com
Tesis : Christina Dewi Tri Murwani - Maspaul.com
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ABSTRACT<br />
MAX HAVELAAR AND ANTICOLONIAL IMAGE<br />
A POSTCOLONIAL ANALYSIS<br />
Max Havelaar is a literary work by Multatuli, pseduonym E.E. Douwes<br />
Dekker. This novel which used the three narrator is mentioned as a novel with a<br />
anticolonial image. In other hand, this novel never suggest to stop the gouverment<br />
of colonial Dutch in Ducth-Hindia (now is Indonesia). This reseach aims at<br />
revealing the relation about colonialism’s vieuws with the its innovation of<br />
narrative technique in this novel.<br />
The first analysis has appied to fokalization of MH. This way is chosen<br />
because MH presented the debate about colonialism in Ducth-Hindia through<br />
the opinions and vieuws of the focalizers. MH uniquely used three focalizers .<br />
The uniqueness is shown by Stern as a narrator-fokalizer in the Lebak Episode<br />
although he is a character. This way gives the impression that Stern is in a neutral<br />
position. He takes the middle-position between the two other characterfocalizers.<br />
Because he is a character in this novel, so his focalization is not<br />
neutral. Stern invites the reader to support the attitude of Multatuli. Whereby the<br />
readers are confronted to make a choice betwen the war of anticolonial or<br />
procolonial interests and to support either one of the two character-fokalizers :<br />
Multatuli or Droogstoppel.<br />
From the result of focalization the orientalism theory has been applied .<br />
This novel used Multatuli and Stern as opposing figures against the forced labour ,<br />
and Droogstoppel as a figure who supported forced labour and the coffe trade.<br />
MH strove for the labourers to get proper wages so the issue about the procedures<br />
of cultuur-stelsel received a special place in MH. Anticolonial traits are shown<br />
by rejection of the low wages, oppression, robbery, injustice, mistreating, and<br />
discrimination. On the contrary MH is a colonial discourse because it gave to<br />
support to the Dutch colonial government in Dutch-Hindia . This novel is<br />
influenced by the colonial hegemony to the <strong>com</strong>petition of industrial products<br />
from colonized countries of Europe in the 19 th century. That is why liberation in<br />
MH is restricted to the liberation of the labour class from capitalists and a<br />
liberation of people (low-classes) from tyrants . This novel does not discuss<br />
political liberation.<br />
Despite to the ambivalence of this novel, MH was a novel which shown the<br />
literary work can to say about ideologi uniquely , implicit and imaginative.<br />
Key Words: Max Havelaar- focalization –anticolonial- liberation of classes<br />
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