Widyanuari Eko Putra in his thesis entitled Mimicry and Hybridity in the Novel Mata Gelap: A Story That Really Happened in Java by Marco Kartodikromo: Postcolonial Studies supervised by Dr. Sukarjo Waluyo.
The exam will be held on June 21 2023 with examiner Dr. M. Suryadi, M.Hum., Prof. Mudjahirin Thohir, M.A., and Dr. Redyanto Noor, M. Hum.
The research entitled “Mimicry and Hybridity in the Novel Mata Gelap: A Story that Really Happened in Java by Marco Kartodikromo: Postcolonial Studies” aims to reveal the structure and formula of the novel which is used to show postcolonial issues in the form of resistance which includes mimicry and hybridity. This research uses auxiliary theories in the form of Robert Stanton’s theory of fiction which focuses on themes, literary devices and story facts, and novel formulas which are reviewed from C. Watson’s Malay literary lingua franca, as well as Homi K. Bhabha’s postcolonial theory. The results of this research show that the structure and formula of the novel contain postcolonial issues, namely mimicry in the form of emancipation efforts and similar actions from native people towards the Dutch colonialists, and hybridity in terms of language, house shape, clothing, lifestyle and culinary. Both of these are forms of native resistance to colonialism, although at the same time they contain ambivalence.
Key words: Marco Kartodikromo, Dark Eyes, hybridity, mimicry, postcolonial, novel formula.
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