NAVIGATING OPPRESSION AND SEEKING EMPOWERMENT IN IBI ZOBOI'S (S)KIN 2025

ALLY SITI MEDINA, . (2026) NAVIGATING OPPRESSION AND SEEKING EMPOWERMENT IN IBI ZOBOI'S (S)KIN 2025. Sarjana thesis, UNIVERSITAS NEGERI JAKARTA.

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Abstract

Penelitian ini mengkaji bagaimana perempuan menavigasi penindasan dan mencapai pemberdayaan dalam novel-in-verse karya Ibi Zoboi yang berjudul (S)Kin (2025). Penelitian ini berfokus pada pengalaman dua tokoh perempuan utama, Marisol, seorang imigran Karibia yang tidak berdokumen, dan Genevieve, saudara tiri campuran yang dibesarkan di lingkungan kelas menengah Brooklyn, yang posisi sosialnya yang berbeda menunjukkan bagaimana penindasan beroperasi secara berbeda tergantung pada ras, kelas, dan status imigrasi. Meskipun (S)Kin ditulis dalam bentuk novel-in-verse, penelitian ini tidak menganalisis unsur-unsur puitis dari teks tersebut. Analisis sepenuhnya berfokus pada konten naratif dan konteks sosial teks, khususnya pengalaman tokoh-tokoh, hubungan antar tokoh, dan kekuatan ideologis yang membentuk kehidupan mereka. Penelitian ini menerapkan kerangka Black Feminist milik Patricia Hill Collins, khususnya teori Matrix of Domination dan teori Self-Definition, sebagai landasan teoretisnya. Teori Matrix of Domination digunakan untuk mengkaji bagaimana penindasan beroperasi melalui empat domain kekuasaan yang saling bersilangan, domain struktural, disipliner, hegemonik, dan interpersonal, sementara teori Self-Definition digunakan untuk menganalisis bagaimana tokoh-tokoh perempuan melawan penindasan tersebut melalui penilaian diri dan rasa hormat, kemandirian, dan pemberdayaan pribadi. Analisis ini juga mengeksplorasi bagaimana persaudaraan dan ruang aman berfungsi sebagai strategi politik perlawanan kolektif. Temuan penelitian menunjukkan bahwa Marisol dan Genevieve menghadapi sistem penindasan yang saling terkait dan beroperasi secara bersamaan di keempat domain, mulai dari hukum imigrasi dan eksploitasi tenaga kerja hingga standar kecantikan koloris dan kekerasan interpersonal sehari-hari. Namun, keduanya melawan kekuatan-kekuatan tersebut melalui pengakuan kembali identitas Karibia leluhur mereka, yang terwujud dalam folklor Soucouyant, serta melalui persaudaraan yang mereka bangun di atas perbedaan kelas dan perbedaan warna yang memisahkan mereka. Penelitian ini menyimpulkan bahwa navigasi perempuan terhadap penindasan dalam (S)Kin tidak dicapai melalui satu tindakan pelarian, melainkan melalui akumulasi penolakan sehari-hari untuk didefinisikan, direndahkan, atau dibungkam, dan bahwa ikatan antar perempuan adalah alat perlawanan paling kuat yang ditawarkan novel ini. ***** This study examines how women navigate oppression and achieve empowerment in Ibi Zoboi’s novel-in-verse (S)Kin (2025). The study focuses on the experiences of two female protagonists, Marisol, an undocumented Caribbean immigrant, and Genevieve, her mixed-race half-sister raised in a middle-class Brooklyn household, whose contrasting social positions demonstrate how oppression operates differently depending on race, class, and immigration status. Although (S)Kin is written in the form of a novel-in-verse, this study does not analyze its poetic elements. The analysis focuses entirely on the narrative content and social context of the text, specifically the characters’ experiences, relationships, and the ideological forces that shape their lives. This study applies Patricia Hill Collins’s Black Feminist framework, particularly the Matrix of Domination theory and the Self-Definition theory, as its theoretical foundation. The Matrix of Domination is used to examine how oppression operates through four intersecting domains of power, structural, disciplinary, hegemonic, and interpersonal, while the Self-Definition theory is used to analyze how the female characters resist that oppression through self-valuation and respect, self-reliance and independence, and personal empowerment. The analysis also explores how sisterhood and safe spaces function as political strategies of collective resistance. The findings show that Marisol and Genevieve are subjected to interlocking systems of oppression that work simultaneously across all four domains, from immigration law and labor exploitation to colorist beauty standards and everyday interpersonal violence. However, both girls resist these forces through the reclaiming of their ancestral Caribbean identity, embodied in the Soucouyant folklore and through the sisterhood they build across their class and color differences. The study concludes that women’s navigation of oppression in (S)Kin is not achieved through a single act of escape but through the accumulation of daily refusals to be defined, diminished, or silenced, and that the bond between women is the most powerful tool of resistance the novel offers.

Item Type:	Thesis (Sarjana)
Additional Information:	1). Eka Nurcahyani, S.S., M.Hum. ; 2). Atikah Ruslianti, S.S., M.Hum.
Subjects:	Bahasa dan Kesusastraan > Sastra Inggris
Divisions:	FBS > S1 Sastra Inggris
Depositing User:	Ally Siti Medina .
Date Deposited:	19 Aug 2026 09:02
Last Modified:	19 Aug 2026 09:02
URI:	http://repository.unj.ac.id/id/eprint/71952

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