Novel Pulang berkisah tentang empat sekawan pelarian politik, dengann Dimas Suryo sebagai tokoh utama. Mereka terjebak di Perancis dan terancam tidak bisa lagi kembali lagi akibat status mereka yang dianggap berafliasi dengan PKI. Pada Novel Pulang terlihat jelas polarisasi Barat dan Timur, Barat sebagai sisi positif dan Timur sebagai sisi negatif. Kolonialisme secara struktur menciptkan oposisi biner antara Barat dan Timur. Pengkajian polarisasi Barat dan Timur mengambil bangun teori poskolonialisme atau yang juga disebut orientalisme.

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This paper will discuss about East-West Polarization in the novel Pulang by Leila S. Chudori. Pulang focuses on political refugees with Dimas Suryo as the main character. They stuck in France and threatened that they can't go back to Indonesia because they are considered to be afliated with Indonesian Communist Party. In Pulang, . East-West polarization seems obvious. The novel indicates West the positive side and East as the negative side. The perspective is legacy of colonial era that creates a binnary opposition of East and West. To Review about East-West, this paper will use post-colonialims theory pr better known as Orientalism.