The Portrait of Otherness Towards Black People in Antebellum America in Octavia Butler's Kindred: A Postcolonial Analysis

Fithryah, Amirah Karini (2023) The Portrait of Otherness Towards Black People in Antebellum America in Octavia Butler's Kindred: A Postcolonial Analysis. Diploma thesis, Universitas Andalas.

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Abstract

This research studies the portrait of otherness against black people in Antebellum America, as seen in Octavia Butler's work entitled Kindred. This research scrutinizes the similarity between the United States' condition during the slavery period and the themes presented in Kindred. The data is analyzed using qualitative methods, and the analysis result is presented descriptively. In analyzing the problem in the novel, the researcher uses the concept of otherness proposed by a postcolonial scholar named Homi Bhabha. The researcher studies the history of slavery in antebellum America first to be able to analyze otherness in Kindred deeply. The researcher notices that otherness against black people in antebellum America, as seen in Kindred, is represented by stereotypes and prejudices. Black people have to deal with negative stereotypes against them, such as being considered strange, immoral, and nothing more than animals. They also have to engage with prejudice that their masters have against them, such as being mistaken as a criminal, prostitute, and a witch or a devil. Making stereotypes and prejudices are white people's way of putting black people as others. It can lead to the justification of committing violence against black people themselves. The negative images that are associated with black people make them suffer from physical and sexual violence exercised by white people. Many masters exercise violence as a way to rule and civilize them so that they remain submissive and obedient.

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