Research Article
Orientalism on Malay People in Kipling’s Limitation of Pambe Serang
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.30-7-2019.2287606, author={Hariyono Hariyono and Putut Handoko and Sanhari Prawiradiredja and Meithiana Indrasari}, title={Orientalism on Malay People in Kipling’s Limitation of Pambe Serang}, proceedings={Proceedings of the 1st Asian Conference on Humanities, Industry, and Technology for Society, ACHITS 2019, 30-31 July 2019, Surabaya, Indonesia}, publisher={EAI}, proceedings_a={ACHITS}, year={2019}, month={9}, keywords={orientalism malay people kipling's}, doi={10.4108/eai.30-7-2019.2287606} }- Hariyono Hariyono
Putut Handoko
Sanhari Prawiradiredja
Meithiana Indrasari
Year: 2019
Orientalism on Malay People in Kipling’s Limitation of Pambe Serang
ACHITS
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.30-7-2019.2287606
Abstract
This article studies how Orientalism is applied in Rudyard Kipling’s short story the Limitation of Pambe Serang. To achieve this goal, this article studies the idea of Orientalism as proposed by Edward Said (1978). The result of this paper can be described that Kipling represents the main character of the story, Pambe Serang, a Malay sailor, as good Malay, that according to Kipling, the definition of a good Malay as someone that cannot easily forget a bad deed that disturbs him, so that he waits for revenge if a change takes place. This representation of orient, Pambe Serang, as a vengeful person is a stereotype that is held by Kipling, as a proof that western authors at the peak of imperialism represent the oriental peoples as they want to.