While in Unconditional film, the writer will analyze about superiority that emerges in the film. Even though racism value has almost gone, the superiority
sill could be seen from the main character, Samantha Crawford.
B. Postcolonial Theory
The term Post-colonial was originally used in 1970’s, definition of term postcolonial is constantly debated in different term. For example, the prefix “post”
makes the problem more complicated because it brings the meaning of “event after” in two sense time, which came after and ideological, in the sense of place.
The second implication that is opposed by the critic these terms: if the imbalance of the colonial government could not be eliminated, then the colonialism was over
premature.
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However, it is view in terms of area and time, indeed literally colonialism is over, and now we are in the postcolonial. It causes the colonies
already spread throughout the world, then the whole world is a region and time of the postcolonial. From this considerations we can see that the term postcolonial
inadequate in defining the current reality of the countries that ever be colonized, because the process of mastery over the forms and the new system has not
stopped.
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Postcolonial studies is one of a growing academic study after the 1980’s. This development as a result of critical thinking theory and postmodern though
Nietzhe inherited, such as: Heidegger, Derrida, Michael Foulcalt, Bataille, Edward W. Said, and others. There are similar characteristics and the main
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Ania Loomba, ColonialismPostcolonialism, London and New York: Reutledge, 1998 p. 1
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Mudji Sutrisno and Hendar Putranto, Hermeneutika Pascakolonial; Soal Identitas, Yogyakarta: Kanisius, 2004, p. 12
characteristic of critical theory, and postmodern social theory is useful to raise awareness and insight enable changes in socio-cultural environment in a rational
and more humane. It is the evident in postcolonial studies. Therefore, the purposed Akhyar that critical theory and postmodern has large contribution in
growing awareness among scientists.
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Postcolonial theory is a set of theories in the field of philosophy, film, literature, and another field which learn the legality of culture which related with
colonialism. Postcolonial theory in the study of literature is understood as a strategy that generates question, which can help to identify the signs of
colonialism in critical texts and literature and assess the nature and significance of the effects of textual sign. Postcolonial discourse not only revolve around literally
texts published in the colonial period but also in the post of colonialism. Study postcolonial tries to focus on relation between government with the
colonized countries, while the relation between colonizer and colonized is the hegemonic relationship, which colonizer is the superior group than the colonized
is the inferior side. From the hegemonic relation between colonizer and colonized it creates the term domination and subordination, and from this relation it creates
the unpleasant portrays about colonized as the barbaric, uncultured, unwished, mystic, irrational, and primitive.
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In this era, the concept of colonialism as a colonizer or domine, that forming “new community” it might make unfair. Colonialism is not an identical process in
different parts of the world but everywhere it locked the original inhabitants and
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Akhyar Yusuf Lubis, Dekonstruksi Epistimologi Modern: Dari Posmodernisme, Teori Kritis, Poskolonialisme, Hingga Cultural Studies,
Jakarta: Pustaka Indonesia Satu, 2006, P. 199
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Leela Gandhi, Postcolonialism Theory: A Critical Introduction, p. vi
