Jurnal Ide Bahasa
Vol 3 No 1 (2021): JURNAL IDEBAHASA Vol. 3 No. 1 Juni 2021

THE PENOMENON OF APARTHEID TOWARD AFRICAN PEOPLE IN “ESCAPE FROM PRETORIA”: HISTORICAL APPROACH

Pijar Omar Piscesco (Universitas Putera Batam)
Tomi Arianto (Universitas Putera Batam)



Article Info

Publish Date
29 Jun 2021

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to reveal how the phenomenon of breaking the practice of apartheid construction toward the black race in the escape from Pretoria movie. The construction of apartheid has placed the black race under the domination of the white race and this behavior is legitimate in the everyday life of society. The dichotomy that places the black race as an inferior race has become a normal habit in society. By using a historical approach, the researchers revealed how the apartheid construction was exposed through the black racial figures in the movie. Qualitative descriptions with historical approach analysis techniques were used as the method in this study. The results of this study reveal: the first, the apartheid construction phenomenon that occurred in the movie. The second is the efforts by breaking the apartheid construction from in movie. The phenomena found related to the construction of apartheid in the movie include: 1) the paradigm of society that perceives whites to be better than blacks, 2) racism. Breaking the habits is revealed through the character Tim Jenkin by changing the paradigm of thinking of the white race after escaping from a Pretoria prison.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

Idebahasa

Publisher

Subject

Arts Humanities Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

Jurnal of Ide Bahasa (e-ISSN 2685-0559 and p-ISSN 2684-673X) is published twice a year, June and December. Each issue will be published at least 5 articles. Jurnal of Ide Bahasa focuses on language, literature, and language learning with various dimensions of languages all over the world. The ...