Menegakkan Eksistensi Masyarakat Afrika Amerika Dalam Konteks Budaya Amerika: Sebuah Kajian pada Puisi-Puisi Amiri Baraka

• Main Authors: , Nurain Jalaluddin, , Prof. Djuhertati Imam Muhni, M.A.,Ph.D
• Format: Theses and Dissertations NonPeerReviewed
• Published: [Yogyakarta] : Universitas Gadjah Mada 2012
• Subjects: ETD
• Online Access: https://repository.ugm.ac.id/100452/; http://etd.ugm.ac.id/index.php?mod=penelitian_detail&sub=PenelitianDetail&act=view&typ=html&buku_id=56264
• Institution: Universitas Gadjah Mada

thesis This discusses Amiri Baraka�s role in African Americans� struggle for establishing African Americans� existence through his protest poems. Focusing on Baraka�s �A Poem Some People Will Have To Understand�, �Afrikan Revolution� �Black People�, Three Modes of History and Culture�, and �Babylon Revisited�, which are considered representative in accordance with the study, this thesis tries to elaborate how Baraka expresses his anger to fight against the whites� discrimination and domination. Baraka stresses on the struggle against the discrimination and domination in the sector of education, employment, economy and whites� brutality against the African Americans. The research is conducted in a perspective of American Studies. Therefore, it applies an interdisciplinary theory in order to get a deeper understanding about the American culture and society in the specific period discussed. In addition, the research uses historical, sociological, and cultural approaches along with a literary approach. Since all the data used in this research are written texts, library research is applied. Books, journals, and many written materials, including internet-based materials, are treated as secondary data, while the poems are considered the primary data. There are three steps in this library research, namely collecting data, selecting data and analyzing data. The other method used in this research is a descriptive method, by which all the data obtained are analyzed and presented descriptively. The research shows that miserable life experienced by the African Americans, as the result of the discriminatory treats done by white Americans, encourages Amiri Baraka to start thinking to protest through his poems. Baraka begins to protest the circumstances such as the condition of the African Americans that live in poverty with no progress in education and employment sectors. This makes the African Americans lose their power to determine their own life. Baraka contributes a new nuance of writing in African American literature by composing such provocative poems as discussed in this research.