KONSTRUKSI IDENTITAS DI DALAM NOVEL DESIRABLE DAUGHTERS KARYA BHARATI MUKHERJEE: TINJAUAN PASKAKOLONIAL

Diaspora literature is a kind of literary work that written by a diaspora writer as a form of their conciousness toward the difference between the old and the new tradition. Some issue that usually rose within Diaspora literature are alienation, homesick, nostalgia, and crisis of identity as effect of adaptation process. In her book Women Writers and Indian Diaspora, Agarwal mentioned some of Diaspora writer that contributed in fulfilling the Diaspora literary work such as, Shanta Rama Rau, Jhumpa Lahiri, Chitra Banerjee, Anita Rau Badami, and Bharati Mukherjee. Agarwal also noted while another Diaspora writer choose assimilation and adaptation as identity construction in their novel�s character, in other word Bharati Mukherjee precisely rejected adaptation and assimilation chose to stay loyal with traditional value. The background of this research is to prove and to find Agarwal statement about the identity construction in Bharati�s work that rejected assimilation and adaptation. This research is using hybridity theory by Homi K. Bhabha as part of postcolonialism study. In collecting data and references, both primary data and secondary data, the writer is using �observe� method, which is observing the language unit that found in text that is the novel Desirable Daughters itself. The data that found from the text (the novel) will be separated into binary opposition, until the structure within the text will be found, especially the binary opposition. Besides, this research is also needing the secondary data which taken from books of colonial history in India. Furthermore, the taken data will be related each other within a process called data analysis. Firstly, deconstructive method will be used to read the text within. This deconstructive reading will be formulated into three solutions. The first is by determining the binary opposition that found in the text. The second is taking the line on the binary opposition so the hierarchy within the text will be easily known. The third is turning down the hierarchy and seeing the historical context of culture, based on hybridity theory. After conducting this research deeply, it could be conclude that binary opposition that constructing the structure in Desirable Daughters, is un-regardless with ambivalence/split/doubles. Each opposition that already constructed the author in the novel, are experienced by hybridity as a process of Indian postcolonialism culture. The identity construction that pictured in Desirable Daughters cannot be separated with hybridity and cultural mixture which closely related with history of Indian colonialism