BOOK REVIEW OF KATHRYN STOCKETT’STHE HELP

Project ini menganalisis tentang novel karya Kathryn Stockett yang berjudul The Help. Novel tersebut berisi tentang rasisme dan penjajahan secara tidak langsung oleh orang kulit putih. Di dalam The Help terdapat 3 tokoh yang menjadi pemeran utama yaitu Eugenia Phelan, Aibeleen Clark dan Minny Jackson. Pengarang menggambarkan setting tempat di Jackson, Mississipi, pada tahun 1960-an. Tujuan penulisan project ini untuk menjelaskan kelebihan dan kekurangan novel The Help. Untuk mendukung penelitian ini, penulis menggunakan unsur intrinsik novel. Kekuatan pada novel The Help terdapat pada tema, setting dan karakter, sedangkan kelemahannya pada bahasa dan alur cerita atau plot. Penulis mengumpulkan semua sumber data dengan buku-buku yang tersedia di perpustakaan maupun diakses melalui internet. Penulis menganjurkan untuk membaca novel tersebut, karena dari isi cerita kita dapat belajar tentang moral kehidupan yaitu pengampunan, keberanian, dan ketulusan

Racial Segregation And Inequality Over The Afro-American Community In Southern America Reflected In Kathryn Stockett’s The Help (Sociological Approach)

The objectives of the research are: 1) to describe the indicators of racial segregation and inequality over Afro-American community in South America in The Help; 2) to describe racial segregation and inequality over Afro-American community in South America depicted in The Help; and 3) to describe why the author specifically address the racial segregation and inequality in The Help. The type of the research that is used by the researcher is qualitative research.In this study, the researcher wants to describe systematically, factually, and accurately an interest of racial segregation and inequality over Afro-American community in South America reflected in the novel. The researcher uses the descriptive method to analyze racial segregation and inequality. The results of the research show that: first, the indicators of racial segregation and inequality over Afro-American community in South America in The Help involve 6 (six) indicators: separated housing, separated facilities, racial hierarchy / stereotyping, toiletry segregation as assumption that black people bring diseases, segregation in public services, and segregation in public policy. Second, racial segregation and inequality over Afro-American community in South America depicted in The Help through the characters in the novel is portrayed through the existence of while characters and black characters. The style used by the author to depict segregation is rhetorical. In events, racial segregation and inequality are portrayed in: African American maids were treated treated as ‘despicable human’ although they had been the whites children’s surrogate mothers; Punishment for people who promote racial equality; The growth of love feeling between white children and their nannies, but but is hindered by differences of skin colors; Love feeling as mother and daughter as portrayed in Aibeleen and Mae Mobley’s relationship; and the feeling as close friends as reflected in Constantine and Skeeter’s relationship.Third, the author specifically address the racial segregation and inequality in The Help because of some reasons: expression of regret of past experience and expressing affection towards others

Dampak Jim Crow Laws Terhadap Orang-orang Kulit Hitam Yang Digambarkan Dalam Novel the Help Karya Kathryn Stockett

This skripsi which is entitled “Dampak Jim Crow Laws Terhadap Orang-Orang Kulit Hitam yang Digambarkan dalam Novel The Help Karya Kathryn Stockett” is a study about the social life of American People in 1960 through the characters in the novel. There are two questions to be answered in this research: Howis Jim Crow Laws reflected in the novel andwhat is the effect of the laws to black people. The aims of this research are to analyze the reflection of the Jim Crow Laws in the novel, and to analyze what the effect of Jim Crow Laws to black people in their social life is. The writer uses theory of Aristotle, George Lukacs and Taineto describe what happened in real life of black people is reflected in a literary work. The intrinsicand extrinsic approaches are applied and the descriptive method is used in this research. The result shows that Jim Crow Laws appears through the story and produces an effect like discrimination that causes black people got treated improperlyseparated and limited in using public facilities, either these laws made white people took a benefit to put blacks in a lower class of society

Characteristics of African-American literature in Kathryn Stockett´s The Help and Alice Walker´s The Color Purple

Discuto si la novela Señoras y Criadas, escrita por una norteamericana blanca, puede considerarse una novela afroamericana a pesar de la etnicidad de la autora. La novela trata sobre la vida de las criadas afroamericanas en los Estados Unidos en la época de los 60, y se ha comparado con El Color Púrpura por su enfoque en el sufrimiento de la mujer negra. En este trabajo, primero establezco cuáles son los elementos esenciales de la literatura afroamericana: la identidad, el rol de la mujer y la ira. Luego sigue un análisis literario donde investigo hasta qué punto estas características se encuentran en Señoras y Criadas, comparándola con El Color Púrpura. También incorporo una parte que compara Señoras y Criadas, La Cabaña del Tío Tom y Matar a un Ruiseñor, todos casos similares en que las escritoras blancas escriben sobre personajes afroamericanos

“Nice white ladies don’t go around barefoot”: Racing the white subjects of The Help (Tate Taylor 2011)

Not only is The Help(2009; 2011) a text within which a white woman author (Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan, played by Emma Stone) profits from the lives of women of colour, but it is also a text originally written by a white woman author (Kathryn Stockett) who profits from the real and/or imagined lives of women of colour. Both authors rely on the invisibility of their whiteness and white privilege in order to inhabit, and, appropriate from, marginalised subjectivities. Through an analysis of The Help’s filmic strategies for inscribing whiteness as a form of absence, this article posits that women of colour are erased and excluded by our continuing cultural reluctance to “see” whiteness and its privileges. I go on to argue that the film simultaneously offers a sceptical reading of Stockett’s and Skeeter’s appropriative projects, finding ways to make characters’ whiteness visible, embodied and accountable. Only in interrogating this cultural invisibility can we contest the ways in which neoliberalism and postracism interplay to reify middle-class whiteness as the default subject position for women in screen media in the twenty-first century

Bodies that (Don't) Matter : Regulating Race on the Toilet in Kathryn Stockett's The Help

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African American Vernacular English : a representation of a non-mainstream variety of English in Kathryn Stockett's The Help

Non-mainstream varieties are sometimes stereotyped when they are represented in a piece of fiction work. African American Vernacular English is presumably one of the varieties which is subject to this uncharacteristic portrayal. The purpose of the paper was to analyse the morphological and syntactic properties of this non-standard variety in The Help and determine whether this could be faithfully portrayed in this novel. The two main characters that were studied were Aibileen and Minny who are African American speakers. Half of the chapters belonging to these characters were analysed. The results suggest that Aibileen and Minny exhibit some interesting differences in their speech, but the novel properly reflected African American's speech in a fair manner.Les varietats no estàndard són a vegades estereotipades quan es tracta de representar-les a una novel·la. L'anglès afroamericà és probablement una de les varietats en la qual es contempla aquesta representació poc característica. L'objectiu d'aquest treball consisteix en analitzar les propietats morfològiques i sintàctiques de l'anglès afroamericà a The Help i en determinar si aquesta varietat no estàndard es troba fidelment representada a la novel·la. Els dos personatges que es van estudiar són Aibileen i Minny, les quals són parlants d'aquesta varietat. La meitat dels capítols en els que apareixen aquests personatges van ser analitzats. Els resultats d'aquest estudi mostren que Aibileen i Minny presenten algunes diferències interessants en relació a l'ús del llenguatge, però la novel·la va resultar ser una bona representació de la llengua dels afroamericans

Dignity and Discrimination: Toward A Pluralistic Understanding of Workplace Harassment

Part I of this article briefly examines some of the drawbacks and inconsistencies of Title VII sexual harassment jurisprudence and shows that Title VII does not provide an adequate framework for understanding many common forms of workplace harassment. Title VII is unquestionably a critical means of fighting against workplace discrimination; however, by emphasizing discrimination at the expense of dignity, the Title VII workplace harassment paradigm provides an incomplete understanding of the wrongs of workplace harassment. Part II of this article asserts the importance of an approach to sexual harassment that distinguishes between the nature of the harm of workplace sexual harassment (a dignitary harm) and the context in which the harm occurs (a context of discrimination against women). A pluralistic understanding of workplace harassment permits the provision of legal remedies for workers of any sex or sexual orientation who suffer from abusive treatment (whether sexual or nonsexual in nature), while still recognizing that workplace harassment occurs in patterned ways and has historically operated to exclude women, in particular, from equal access to social, political, and economic power. While Title VII highlights the discriminatory--and often sexist--motives and patterns in many cases of workplace harassment, harassment is not a matter of concern only when sexual. Further, the claim that workplace harassment is a group harm that only affects women is too simplistic. First, as Vicki Schultz has eloquently argued, not all discriminatory workplace harassment of women is sexual in nature. Second, men as well as women can be subjected to harassment and abusive treatment at work. A pluralistic understanding of workplace harassment must reflect these insights. Part III of this article contends that common-law tort causes of action provide a promising way to address the dignitary harm element of classic cases of sexual harassment, those involving male harassers and female victims. Twenty years ago, feminist scholars such as MacKinnon considered--and rejected--this approach. Dismissing a tort approach in this manner, while understandable in 1979, now does a disservice to women and other harassment victims. Moving beyond classic cases of sexual harassment, Part III of this article also argues that common-law tort causes of action contain the germ of a more general right to be free of severe dignitary harm in the workplace and that the changing social meaning of work should be deemed to create special duties for employers in protecting all workers from workplace harassment, sexual and nonsexual. Part IV defends this approach against several possible objections. These objections include the group harm objection, the rigid courts objection, the liability and preemption objection, and the civility code objection. Finally, Part V demonstrates why a pluralistic understanding of workplace harassment would benefit all workers while strengthening feminist efforts to protect women from workplace discrimination. A pluralistic approach to workplace harassment--one that combines the use of Title VII, where appropriate, with tort causes of action--has three important benefits. First, such a pluralistic approach allows for legal remedies for the many workers who experience severe harassment on the job, but who would be hard-pressed to assert that their harassment was because of sex, as required by even the most expansive reading of Title VII. Second, a pluralistic approach keeps the primary focus of Title VII where it should be: on addressing the problem of widespread workplace discrimination against members of less powerful groups, such as racial, ethnic, and religious minorities, and, of course, women. Third, grounding understanding of the sexual harassment of women in a notion of dignitary harm as well as in a discrimination paradigm makes a critical political and philosophical point: The workplace harassment of women is wrong not because women are women, but because women are human beings and share with all other human beings the right to be treated in the workplace with respect and concern

The Bitter Seed: Stockett’s Delivery of the Black Reality

This article explores the power of Kathryn Stockett’s voice in portraying truth of Black struggle through fiction. By examining the truth behind the lines, the idea of a voice outside of this harsh reality of segregation, offers hope for not only fictional protagonists, but minority voices in society. Black experience is portrayed in the novel in both historical aspects and plot device. Stockett’s work mindful of the Jim Crow Laws, the Civil Rights Movement, and the politics of the North and South, allows her position of White privilege, to shed light on this dark reality in American and worldly history. This debut novel situates Stockett on the periphery of something resonant in years to come