THE SOCIAL CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF RACISM IN LÉOPOLD SENGHOR'S POEM: POME MON FRRE BLANC

Abstract

This research would be like researching a Francophone poetry, titled Poème à mon frère
blanc by Léopold Senghor. Researchers are interested in this poem, because the speaker
writes beautifully, but is full of conflicting meanings over the ideology of racism in
Farnchophone countries, including Senegal (the speaker's country). This article focuses on
the mechanisms and resources implemented in the discursive confrontation between
Africans and the white voice in the dramatic poem Poème à Mon Frère Blanc. The
researchers were interested in researching French poetry because it has a racism theme. In
this research, the problem that the researchers would like to examine is how the poet
criticizes the discourse of racism in poetry. Therefore, the researchers intend to apply
Norman Fairclough's critical discourse analysis to analyze this poetry. This research was
conducted using qualitative research methods with a scalpel of critical discourse analysis
developed by Norman Fairlough. Based on the analysis above, in this part, the researchers
would like to conclude that: first the researchers may show that Fairclough's argument that
ideology is tangible is correct (in this case the ideology of racism).