The narrator is an important element in a story because he delivers the story, takes control of the storytelling process, either shows or hides stories through the narration, and controls the story according to his wishes. In that important position, the narrator is allowed to have subjectivity in his way of narrating the story. The subjectivity of the narrator can be found in the novel Njai Warsih by Thio Tjin Boen, a work of Chinese Peranakan literature. The narrator uses his subjectivity to narrate the oppressed and the oppressor, how his vision sees indigenous people, and where he is siding with his position. This study wants to expose and prove that the narrator of the Njai Warsih novel by Thio Tjin Boen uses his subjectivity in the narration about indigenous women and power relations during Dutch colonialism in the Dutch East Indies or Indonesia by knowing the narrative structure of Genette’s narratological theory. The questions used as the basis for this research are: How are the focalizations and subjectivities of the narrator implied in the novel Njai Warsih by Thio Tjin Boen? By those two questions, the hypotheses found in this study are: The focalization used by the narrator is zero focalization, meaning that the narrator uses the third-person omniscient point of view and the subjectivities shown through the narration, which are influenced by reality outside the literary work.

Authors:
Suci Diah Ningrum, Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia

About the Presenter(s)
Suci Diah Ningrum is a postgraduate student at Master of Literature, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Suci is interesting in to narratology and currently assisting her lecturer's research on naratology.

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