Discrimination That Nima Experienced as a Muslim in Home Is Not a Country

Abstract

The objective of this study is to find the main character’s experiences facing discrimination in America that has Islamophobia. This Study aims to find discrimination either verbal and non-verbal form that main character faced and the main character’s feelings regarding the discrimination. The researcher uses the novel by Safira Elhillo entitled Home Is not a Country and focuses on the main character that is a Sudanese American Muslim girl named Nima. The researcher used qualitative methods to observe. The researcher used post-colonial theory that was stated by Bill Ashcroft and the theoretical framework of post-colonial theory that is racism by George M. Fredrickson and Islamophobia that depicted in the novel. The result of the research is Nima experienced, she was mocked by his friend by saying that they dressed like her terrorist mom, it’s actually taken from 9/11 attacks, that is the verbal discrimination even non-verbal discriminations also experienced by the main character as she got choked out of his neck, then Nima’s feeling regarding the discrimination that she had faced as the main character feared and unbearable because of the action of his environment that has Islamophobic and confuse why his parent bring them to the country that has Islamophobias.