Nurjanah Suhawanti, 2211411053 (2015) HEGEMONY AS THE EFFECT OF ORIENTALISM IN CHIYO’S CONFESSIONS OF LOVE. Under Graduates thesis, UNIVERSITAS NEGERI SEMARANG.

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Abstract

This final project is about Western Hegemony as the effect of Orientalism through Eastern country specifically in Japan which is reflected by characters, and setting in the novel “Confessions of Love”. The objectives of this final project are to find out how Orientalism described in Japanese soceity, and what is the author‘s mind towards Western Hegemony as potrays on the novel. The analysis of this study applied Orientalism approach. The main source of this study is the novel written by Uno Chiyo ―Confessions of Love”, and I compared it with Japan social condition and history, and also Uno Chiyo‘s background. This study is qualitative descriptive study because the data were in the form of sentences, dialogue, phrases, and narrative. The data were collected by reading the novel thoroughly, identifying, classifying, and selecting. After identifying the data, I classified the data into a table, and then I selected the data that available to answer the problem. The procedure of analyzing the data includes showing the West domination effect, showing Binary opposition between West and East as reflected on the novel, and the last one describing the effect of West superiority towards East inferiority reflected on the author‘s mind as potrays on the novel. The result indicates that Chiyo‘s work reflected Japan social condition at the time when she wrote this novel where many of Japanese were hegemonized by Western culture. It was because of Orientalism as the trigger of Hegemony effect. Moreover, the Hegemony effect also influenced the author‘s mind in writing the novel by showing Western superiority and Westernized characterization. In the end, I hope this study give additional knowledge about Japan society, Orientalism, and Hegemony effect, and I hope this study will be able to help literature student, and this study could be the references for them in their future research.

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