Framework of Thinking LITERATURE REVIEW

66 Feminist, marxist, gay and lesbian theory, also cultural studies focus their research on the voice of the marginal. It happens as well in the discrimination or social construction about children. There have been a lot of novels depicting how children “should be” based on Western ideology or metaphysical thinking. In addition, there are lots of children‟s books offering forms of literature which strengthen certain ideology. It is also the same with Wilson‟s The Illustrated Mum since it portrays children, as one of the marginal group. Wilson‟s The Illustrated Mum is famous in children‟s literature and the fact is that this novel has deconstructed the adultchild power relation. It breaks logocentrism about children as well. Wilson‟s The Illustrated Mum offers a new alternative reading in children‟s book especially how it presents the unconventional images of children in post-modern era. To help analyzing and understanding the problem better, some books related to deconstruction, especially proposed by Jacques Derrida, were used to reveal new ways of reading and writing children‟s literature. In order to analyze the data taken from Wilson‟s The Illustrated Mum, the researcher applied content analysis. It was gathering and analyzing the content from the text. More specifically, the researcher narrowed this research as the applying of textual analysis. As one of qualitative research way, textual analysis has identification and interpretation that come from the text itself, Wilson‟s The Illustrated Mum. 67 The way of textual analysis works is in relation to deconstruction concept that there is noth ing outside of the text that “textual analysis involves the identification and interpretation of a set of verbal and non- verbal signs” Vanderstoep and Johnston, 2009: 210 inside of the text. It clarifies that the contents of analysis from this research were some symbols, signs, words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc that were used to communicate through the novel. After that, the data reflected and were related to the social context. In the process of placing the data, the researcher was involved as well.

B. The Data and Sources of Data

The sources of data in analyzing the novel came from Wilson‟s The Illustrated Mum published in 1999 by Doubleday in Great Britain. The data provided by this novel were some significant words, phrases, clauses, sentences, and paragraphs which were related to revelation of unconventional images of children and how deconstruction was presented in the novel. These data provide the unconventional images of children that were built by Wilson‟s The Illustrated Mum. The data showed how deconstruction was presented in the novel. There are several books and articles that were used to support the data analysis related to deconstruction theory, for example, book from Madan Sarup entitled An Introduction Guide to Post-Structuralism and Post-