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Reading mimicry in Dreamgirls the movie / Mawar Firdausi

Abstrak
ABSTRACT Firdausi Mawar.2009. Reading Mimicry in Dreamgirls the Movie. Thesis. English Language and Literature Faculty of Letters State University of Malang. Advisor M. Nasrul Chotib M. Hum. Key terms slavery Sambo inferiority complex mimicry resistance. Slavery had accompanied historical development of Afro-Americans in the United States. The most dangerous version of slavery had been the humanist way in which the slaves were guaranteed of all their primitive needs for psychological and security to build a distinct personality that is docile childlike and dependent Sambo. The result of Sambo-like personalities was hegemonic process of identification to the reality imposed upon the Afro-American. As their reasoning capacity grew paralyzed it was becoming more guided and could not generate logic other than that introjected into them. This dumb-founding produced inferiority complex that led Afro-American to take Whites as their natural master. The consequence of such complex is not merely adjustment but also elimination of characteristics pertaining to their identity. The Blacks start mimicking their master as to be equally being recognized. This phenomenon is known as mimicry and becomes this thesis major issue. Mimicry is defined as the desire for a recognizable other to be the same but not quite. However mimicry does not necessarily take place in linear way. As Bhabha asserts mimicry is constructed around an ambivalence which eventually creates resemblance and at once menace toward the colonial. The process of mimicry is revealed through film studies and post-colonialist approaches. The object of analysis is Dreamgirls the movie. The discussion reveals that the movie presents two types of mimicry those who prefer to stay original and those who welcome change. The first Blacks are intoxicated and delusioned by their specific false consciousness that unconsciously puts the identity of the Whites as the superior. The more they alienate and separate the more they continually make the Whites as the only model of negation. Eventually they would become a simple not White instead of original Blacks. While resisting the idea to alter identity these Blacks are actually menacing the power of the Whites. The rejection represents a conscious effort showing recognition of position thus the self as they manage to acknowledge their existence consciously. Hence they are no longer a mere overpowered individual yet possessing a potential self-power that constitutes threat to the colonial power. Once accumulated it could represent that the massive Afro-Americans collective consciousness is able to withstand colonial power. The second Blacks also falsely believe that Whites are better thus correlatively think that blackness is worse. The more they compels their way to become whiter the more they become the Fanonian character of black skin white mask. Once accepting this character as subject the Whites are not only admitting the whiteness of this character but also the character s remaining blackness. Inside this character represents incessant threat that corrupts and infects colonial power. Conclusively despite being manipulated by colonial power subjects of mimicry are also capable of retaliating back by doing mockery toward the authority of the colonial. What is left from mimicry is the impure artificial identity that presents mimicry as a form of a menace than resemblance or of a rupture than consolidation toward the original identity both for the slave-Blacks and the master-Whites.

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DDC

Rs 813.083 FIR r

Prodi

Skripsi (Sarjana)--Universitas Negeri Malang. Program Studi Bahasa dan Sastra Inggris, 2008.

Deskripsi Fisik

viii, 60 hlm : il. : tab. ; 30 cm

Bahasa

No Reg

00368/KI/09

Edisi

Skripsi (Sarjana)--Universitas Negeri Malang. 2008

Subjek

1. BAHASA INGGRIS - FIKSI AMERIKA - ASPEK SOSIOLOGI
2. BAHASA INGGRIS - FIKSI AMERIKA - ASPEK PSIKOLOGI

Pembimbing

1. M. NASRUL CHOTIB

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