and middle class women. Postcolonial feminism uses women experiences as the main focus, it embodies some factors like ethnicity, class and culture. Since
women have different experience, it is somehow not possible to make generalizations regarding to all women. Postcolonial feminist approach attempts
to examine the relation between patriarchal culture which women live in and workings of colonialism. In the other words, it concerns on women who lived in
colonialized and patriarchal societies as marginalized parties. Postcolonial feminist approach is the most suitable to apply as this thesis conducts a research
on a Japanese woman immigrant living in a marginalized ethnic group in Imperial Valley, California. This approach helps the writer find out how the idea of
postcolonial feminism perceived through the main female character as a Japanese immigrant.
C. Method of The Study
The writer used a library research to do this analysis. The primary source that was used in this thesis was a play entitled The Music Lessons written by
Wakako Yamauchi. The secondary source is some website from the internet, theory books, essays and journals that related to this study as follows: A
Handbook of Critical Approach to Literature, How to Analyze Drama, The Beginning Theory: The Introduction To Literary And Cultural Theory, The
Feminist Reader, Feminist Thought,Race Relations, ColonialismPostcolonialism, Gender, Fifty Key Concepts in Gender Studies
.
There were several steps required to work on this study. First, the writer conducted a deeper reading on the play in order to comprehend the story well and
find the detail. After reading the play, the writer found something interesting to discuss which was, the struggle of a japanese woman immigrant to adjust to the
isolated life in California perceived through postcolonial feminism point of view. In order to do more research on it, the writer used several theories from internet,
essays and literary theory books after the writer finished collecting data from the text.
The next step was applying theories and approach that is already presented earlier to answer the problem formulation. The theory of character and
characterization and theory of gender stereotype were used to reveal the characteristics of the main character through the dialogue and hidden narration as
the object of this study was a play, while the theory of postcolonial feminism was used to reveal the postcolonial perspective seen through the main female character
in the play. After the first problem was answered, then the second problem could be answered as well by reflecting the postcolonial feminism concept, theory of
gender stereotype and theory of hybridity to the first problem, then, the writer would relate it to the Japanese immigrant historical background. By answering
those two problem formulation, the writer could analyze how the characteristics and roles of Chizuko Sakata contributed to reveal her struggle as an Issei widow
seen through postcolonial feminist perspective and finally the writer could draw a conclusion based on the analysis on it.
