Black American Counter Hegemony in Mildred Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (1976)

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10.2991/978-2-38476-078-7_22How to use a DOI?

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hegemony; counter hegemony; racism; peaceful movement

Abstract

This research is conducted to analyze the hegemonic and counter hegemonic practices in Mildred Taylor’s Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (1976). The analysis is based on mimetic point-of-view, considering the literary work as a fictional representation of the real world within which the work was made. The aim of the research is to analyze the social aspects of the novel, including conflicts of power between white people as the dominant or the ruler race and black people as the subordinate or the ruled race in the USA - especially in southern region - and find the philosophical values inferred from the idea found in the novel that is related to the wider social realities outside the mere facts described in the literary work. The approach used is literary sociology approach, in which the research is focused on the novel’s text analysis. It is also called with sociology of work. Theory of Gramscian Hegemony and concept of racism are used as the tools of analysis. The analysis on the Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry showed that there were conflicts between whites as the ruler group and some critical black folks. The conflicts were held as the consequences of the low level of hegemony and the high level of coercion in the whites’ authority. It was recognized that there was a war of maneuver between the whites as the ruler group and the critical blacks who tried to create a new form of leadership called as a counter hegemony in the society, especially for the subordinate black people. Based on Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, there were important characteristics in black movements. There were ideas about peaceful and continual spirits in black struggles.

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AU  - Heri Dwi Santoso
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BT  - Proceedings of the 1st Lawang Sewu International Symposium on Humanities and Social Sciences 2022 (LEWIS 2022)
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