| dc.description.abstract | A Literary work is a reflection of reality. It depicts some conditions and
situations in social life. Novel is kind of literary genre used to depict feeling,
perspective, and etc, about several conditions and situations that happen in some eras.
In other words, it can be called the representation in literary works is used as a
medium to communicate to each other or the society. The representation in the
literary work is framed by the discourse. Discourse, here, is used as the framework of
knowledge to get the meaning of the representation.
This research analyzes Sapphire’s Push portraying the situation in 1980s
which has racialism as its discourse. The novel tells about child abuse occurred in
black community; Harlem. The portrait of child abuse represents the sociological
condition in Harlem at that time. The main purpose of the writing this thesis is to find
what the ideology that constructs the production of the novel. Therefore, this research
uses Stuart Hall’s theory of representation.
By taking this research on Hall’s theory, this novel has indeed made a new
representation on Black in Harlem that Black also can do anything, black is not
always cruel, always stupid and un-skilled. This is the ideology brought by the novel;
that is anti-racialism. There is no race; there is only an equal human being. | en_US |
