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Political History of Northern Ireland in the Novel “Milkman” By Anna Burns Based on New Historicism Theory

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Literature is not born autonomously but literature is always surrounded by the history of its time. The focus of this research is Milkman, a historical novel written by Anna Burns. This research aims to analyze the political history in the novel Milkman by Anna Burns. Descriptive gualitative method is used in this study. This research using the New Historicism approach developed by Brannigan. The researcher found several literary facts that paralleled to the historical facts of Northern Ireland. The results of this study indicates that the novel is based on Northern Ireland in 1970 historical event. Several factual events related in the novel to sectarian conflicts became the root of the problem presented in the novel. Sectarianism causes instability in that area and led to separation into several group. This condition led to different views and eventually to prolonged difficult conflict among Northern Ireland. Some sectarian forms in the novel are giving restricted names, regional restricted names, regional restrictions for traveling and many government spies roaming around. The representation of sectarian conflict found in the novel Milkman by Anna Burns include: bombings, legal ineguality and Curve restriction.

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No. Panggil

BSI 2022 MER p

Penerbit

Makassar : FAH. Adab & Humaniora UIN ALauddin., 2022

Deskripsi Fisik

xi, 59 hlm.: ilus; 30 cm.

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English

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BSI 2022 MER p

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History
New Historicism
Political History
Milkman.

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