BRITISH STEREOTYPING TOWARDS INDIANS IN E.M. FORSTER’S A PASSAGE TO INDIA: A POSTCOLONIAL STUDY

Oliyvia Devi Astiti, English Literature Study Program, Faculty of Languages and Arts, Yogyakarta State University, Indonesia

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Abstract

This research aims to find out how the Indians are presented in E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India and how the novel reflects the stereotyping of the British toward the Indians seen from the orientalism of the postcolonialism theory. This research applied the descriptive qualitative method. The data of this research were in the form of expressions related to the British stereotyping towards the Indians found in A Passage to India. In order to achieve the validity and trustworthiness of the data, the researcher applied the peer debriefing method. There are two results of the research. First, there are three main stereotyping represented by the British towards the Indians: inferior, primitive and barbaric. Second, the novel reflects the stereotyping of the Indians through the narration and the dialogs.

 

Key words: postcolonialism, orientalism, stereotyping

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