Frianda, Septian
(2023)
Postcolonial Trauma Caused by Racism and Dehumanization in Esi Edugyan Washington Black (2018).
Skripsi thesis, Universitas Negeri Padang.
Abstract
This study discusses the issue of postcolonial trauma caused by racism and dehumanization in the novel "Washington Black" by Esi Edugyan. This analysis is a text-based interpretation based on Franz Fanon's postcolonial theory. The postcolonial trauma experienced by colonized people occurred due to racism and dehumanization carried out by the colonizers. Racism refers to the practice of wrongly assigning hereditary psychological or behavioral traits to someone of a particular physical appearance. Believe that superiority or inferiority traits allegedly possessed by people of a certain physical stock can be explained biologically. Dehumanization refers to the practice of designating a group as inhuman, either through the use of subhuman categories or by the use of negatively rated superhuman creatures. Dehumanization, according to Haslam, can take two forms: animalistic dehumanization and mechanical dehumanization. The purpose of this study is to discover how does racism and dehumanization might create postcolonial trauma in colonized people. This study discovered several instances of racism, animalistic dehumanization, and mechanical dehumanization that cause colonized people to experience postcolonial trauma.
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