Hybridity Lifestyle and Fashion in Allah Jang Palsoe

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10.2991/978-2-38476-140-1_16How to use a DOI?

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Postcolonial; mimicry; hybridity; Allah Jang Palsoe

Abstract

In a colonized country, a cultural encounter is inevitable. The natives, with their authentic culture and the colonizers carrying their colonial values, get into contact for an extended period. Dutch East Indies, Indonesia’s former official name under the Dutch occupation, had a long colonial history and caused various cultures to intersect Mimicry and cultural hybridity are two products of the intersection of cultures. The people of the Dutch East Indies, including the Chinese and other diaspora who had their own culture, tended to imitate the culture of their colonizers. Such impersonation can become a hybrid identity. The imitation of lifestyle and dress style represents the hybridity of the Dutch East Indies community during the colonial period. Kwee Tek Hoaij’s drama, Allah Jang Palsoe, displays the mimicry of European culture performed by the Chinese-breed community. That eventually gave birth to hybridity. This play’s depiction of mimicry and hybridity aligns with Homi K. Bhabha’s postcolonial theory. This study aims to bring to the surface the forms of hybridity resulting from different cultural intersections, mainly in lifestyle and fashion. The descriptive-qualitative method is used to interpret the mimicry and hybridity data gathered to describe the forms of hybridity in the people’s way of life and clothing styles.

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AU  - Lidwina Putu Gratia Ekaristi
AU  - Cahyaningrum Dewojati
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023/11/07
TI  - Hybridity Lifestyle and Fashion in Allah Jang Palsoe
BT  - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Language, Linguistics, and Literature (COLALITE 2023)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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EP  - 152
SN  - 2352-5398
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