Previous Research Findings LITERATURE REVIEW
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the labor of the dominating and the colonizer one and how the changing depictions can win the ideology of the colonizer or the dominating through
media. Another research is conducted by
Ananda Suri Andini‟s undergraduate thesis entitled The Revelation of Deconstruction on Conventional Images:
A Study of Rowling’s Children Book The Tales of Beedle Bard”. This research questions about
a hero‟s conventional characteristics that are totally different from Rowling‟s hero in The Tales of Beedle Bard and
how she deconstructs those conventional images through her novel. The research results on four results. The first is that the depiction of imperfect
hero who is not white, mighty, and confident. Even, the images of hero in Rowling‟s The Tales of Beedle Bard are depicted as unconfident with his
power, being skeptical to love and doing sadistic actions. The second is the depiction of independent female characters that are different from
conventional images of woman. They are powerful, smart, cunning, brave, and leading. The third is the depiction of unconventional villain which is
represented by Death, not person. The last is the depiction of gloomy atmosphere that is different from conventional images of fairy tales‟
atmosphere. Andini reveals the Rowling‟s method of deconstructing the conventional images of hero, woman, villain and atmosphere using four
ways. The first is by subverting moral dichotomy, then by subverting gender dichotomy, after that employing irony and the last by employing
unconventional dictions such as „gruesome‟ words.
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Those researches have explained well in detail how the revelation of deconstructing works on race, class and opposition in binary opposition.
One research has revealed how certain changes in Oompa-Loompas are not merely to remove the racial antagonism, but it is to dominate the
power of White and Upper Class society. The other research has explained as well how conventional images of hero, villain, woman, have been
replaced by unconventional images in a certain work. However, the researcher thinks that the issues about race and class
have been discussed many times and there is still one issue that is related to adultchild opposition that has not yet discussed. This research reveals
how that adultchild power relationship is not absolute. In addition, the revelation on hero, female and villain images that has been conducted is
still too general, that is why Wilson‟s The Illustrated Mum is studied on how it deconstructs the conventional images of, not hero, woman, or
certain race, but more specifically, child. Moreover, after long research finding the previous studies talking about The Illustrated Mum, the
researcher found there is not yet research such as journal or thesis doing analysis on Wilson‟s The Illustrated Mum, whereas, this work is a great
example of unconventional images of children.
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