relation: http://eprints.uny.ac.id/57085/ title: THE REJECTION OF ORIENTALISM IN THE MAIN CHARACTERS OF JUDY BLUME’S SELECTED NOVELS: TALES OF FOURTH GRADE NOTHING, FUDGE-A-MANIA, AND DOUBLE FUDGE creator: Bangsa, Siska Adonia Bela subject: Bahasa dan Sastra Inggris description: Since children’s character is like an amount of clay that can be easily shaped into any kinds of forms, adults hold the important responsibility of children to treat and help them shaping their character using any means, one of which is using literature. Adults’ role is not only to guide children in selecting literary texts for them to read, but also to create and evaluate the texts especially for the young readers. In order to provide the best storybooks for children, adults should be able to adjust and maintain the balance of what children really need and what they really want from reading literature. In the other words, adults should not interrupt children’s freedom to experience the process of reading the text by making their personal observation and understanding the story as a unity. However, adults may not pay enough attention to many storybooks that out of its focus by implying didacticism and censorship through the texts. It indicates that the practice of Perry Nodelman’s Orientalism upon children’s literature can be found through the depiction of adults’ attitude toward the child character that purposely to dominate and hold the control over them rather than trusting children to be what they want and do. Therefore, the objective of this study are to: (1) reveal in which aspects of Orientalism represented by adults’ attitude toward children found in the selected novels; and (2) to reveal Blume’s depiction of children’s traits represented by the main characters that indicate as Orientalism rejection in the selected novels. This research takes Judy Blume’s selected novels: Tales of Fourth Grade Nothing, Fudge-a-mania, and Double Fudge as the subject of study. The research was conducted using descriptive-qualitative approach by critically analyze the content of the texts in the form of direct and indirect speech of the the characters in the novels as the primary data. The data collection technique was completed by carefully re-reading the texts; note-taking significant speech or utterances; and classfying the data into certain categories supported by its description to gain transferability of the research. In order to get validity and trustworthiness, the researcher takes cross-checking step between the data taken from the texts with the literary theory to get data saturation and avoid double variation in the research. Besides, the researcher also implements triangulation techique with her college friends and consult her research with her supervisors. The results in this research show that adults’ attitude toward children in the storybooks are reflected the four aspects of Orientalism in children’s literature as inherent inferiority; inherent femaleness; inherent adult-centeredness; and inherent silencing. While Judy Blume’s depiction of the child main character in the storybooks representing the traits of children rejecting Orientalism. date: 2018-06-23 type: Thesis type: NonPeerReviewed format: text language: en identifier: http://eprints.uny.ac.id/57085/1/11_Siska%20Adonia%20Bela%20Bangsa_10211141002_a%20thesis.pdf identifier: Bangsa, Siska Adonia Bela (2018) THE REJECTION OF ORIENTALISM IN THE MAIN CHARACTERS OF JUDY BLUME’S SELECTED NOVELS: TALES OF FOURTH GRADE NOTHING, FUDGE-A-MANIA, AND DOUBLE FUDGE. S1 thesis, Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta.