| Summary: | This study aims to reveal the theatrical performance of immigrants in
Poisson d'or, a novel written by Le Clézio. The context of theatrical performance
relates to several issues. First, the efforts are undertaken by immigrants to survive
in the migration country by doing a theatrical performance. Therefore, it is
necessary to know about the forms of theatrical performance as an immigrants�
political identity, which is an effort to show his theatrical performance in order to
adapt, negotiate or resist. Second, the relations between the core community
subjects and the immigrants provides in Poisson d'or. Third, theatrical
performances are seen in the sociocultural context of French society. Erving
Goffman dramaturgy theory is applied related to the theatrical performances.
Besides, this study is also used the francophone literature perspective,
postcolonial literature, and identity politics. Roland Barthes� method of semiotics
focusing on myth is as the method of analyzing data.
The result of the study reveals that the immigrants make efforts of
theatrical performance by doing varied ways on the side of the front stage and the
back stage as well. In the front stage, the immigrants have built positive images
for they are dealing directly with the core community by coding, including using
costumes, body language, maturity of thought, identity as an African people,
appearance, hobbies, intelligence, lifestyle, and linguistic abilities. In the back
stage, the immigrants have made the back stage area as a hidden realm that
supports the creation of positive images at the front stage e.g. through freedom,
insulting words, and inferiority. The relations existing between the immigrants
and the core society is hierarchical and equal relations. In the hierarchical relation,
there are relations of the dominants and dominated people, employer and
employee, parents and adopted children, teachers and pupils, and the punished and
the Punisher. There is an equal relation among immigrants and African people.
The reading of theatrical performance in sociocultural context of Africa nation
reveals that theatrical performance in novel have the homology with theatrical
performance in sociocultural context, however there is no homology because there
is no such phenomenons in novel or conversely. The reality shows that France as
a respected country in the world releases policies that are not pro-immigrant, such
as prohibition veil wearing, or restricting the immigrants into the French national
football team. Thus, theatrical performance strategy became important for
immigrants in order to gain more space and to be acknowledged.
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