Abstract
Narrator is an important element in a story because he has the ability to deliver, take control of, show, or hide stories through the narration. In that important position, the narrator is able to have subjectivity in his narration. The subjectivity of the narrator can be found in the Njai Warsih novel by Thio Tjin Boen, a work of Chinese Peranakan literature. The narrator in the Njai Warsih novel uses his subjectivity to narrate the indigenous people and place where he siding his position in the narration. This study wants to expose and prove that the narrator of the Njai Warsih novel by Thio Tjin Boen uses his subjectivity in the narration about indigenous women and power relations during Dutch colonialism in the Dutch East Indies or Indonesia by knowing the narrative structure focused on focalization of Genette’s narratological theory. Focalization is a concept to identify the narrator’s position in the story. The hypotheses found in this study are: the focalization used by the narrator is zero focalization, meaning that the narrator uses the third-person omniscient point of view, and the subjectivities shown through the narration are influenced by reality outside the literary work.
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Suci Diah Ningrum, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia
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Conference: KCAH2024
Stream: Literature/Literary Studies
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Ningrum S. (2025) The Subjective Narrator in the Novel “Njai Warsih” by Thio Tjin Boen: A Narratological Analysis ISSN: 2759-7571 – The Korean Conference on Arts & Humanities 2024 Official Conference Proceedings (pp. 81-91) https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2759-7571.2024.8
To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.22492/issn.2759-7571.2024.8
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