scholarly journals EKSISTENSI PEREMPUAN DALAM NOVEL AKU LUPA BAHWA AKU PEREMPUAN KARYA IHSAN ABDUL QUDDUS: TINJAUAN KRITIK SASTRA FEMINIS (WOMAN EXISTENCE IN THE NOVEL OF AKU LUPA BAHWA AKU PEREMPUAN BY IHSAN ABDUL QUDDUS: AN OVERVIEW OF FEMINISM LITERARY CRITICISM)

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 236
Author(s):  
Indah Ika Ratnawati
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The People ◽  
Good For

AbstractWoman Existence in The Novel of Aku Lupa Bahwa Aku Perempuan by Ihsan AbdulQuddus: An Overview of Feminism Literary Criticism. Feminisme fight for two thingthat have not owned the women in general, i.e their equality with men and autonomousto decide what is good for themselves. Similary with Ihsan Abdul Quddus, raised thetheme of women who tries to break the tradition. The method used in this research isdescriptive quality by interpreting the text analysis contained in the novel of I ForgetThat I Am Woman. Starting with collection of words, written or spoken sentences relatedto the character of pro feminisme and contra feminisme. Used to find any characterthat agree with feminisme and character that against feminisme this chain of events thatled to the spirit eme of emrgence of existentialisme of feminisme. From the analysisabove that the character of contra feminisme are not only men but there also womencharacthers. Most of the characters are men who oppose Suad, but there are alsoyoung people who contra feminisme. In the novel of I Forget That I Am Woman, thecharacter into the self. From the analysis of existentialisme conducted by Suad characterhave awareness of being a high self. Suad is a woman who has always been a subjectamong the people around her and managed to be a woman who free tobe the selfwholly.Keywords: profeminisme, contrafeminisme, existentialism of feminismeAbstrakEksistensi Perempuan dalam Novel Aku Lupa Bahwa Aku Perempuan karya IhsanAbdul Quddus: Tinjauan Kritik Sastra Feminis. Feminisme memperjuangkan dua halyang selama ini tidak dimiliki kaum perempuan pada umumnya, yaitu persamaan derajatmereka dengan laki-laki dan otonom untuk menentukan apa yang baik bagi dirinya.Sama halnya dengan Ihsan Abdul Quddus mengangkat tema perempuan yang mencobamendobrak tradisi. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah kualitatifdeskriptif dengan cara menafsirkan analisis teks yang terdapat dalam novel Aku LupaBahwa Aku Perempuan. Dimulai dengan pendataan kata-kata, kalimat tertulis ataulisan yang berkaitan dengan tokoh profeminisme dan tokoh kontrafeminisme. Digunakanmenemukan tokoh-tokoh mana saja yang setuju adanya feminism dan tokoh tidak setujuadanya feminisme rangkaian peristiwa ini yang menyebabkan munculnya semangateksistensialisme feminisme. Dari analisis di atas bahwa tokoh kontrafeminisme tidakhanya laki-laki tetapi ada juga tokoh perempuan. Kebanyakan tokohnya adalah lakilakiyang menentang Suad, tetapi ada juga tokoh anak muda yang kontrafeminisme.Dalam novel Aku Lupa Bahwa Aku Perempuan, tokoh yang profeminisme kebanyakanlaki-laki dibanding tokoh perempuan yang menerima perempuan menjadi sang Diri.237Dari analisis eksistensialisme yang dilakukan oleh tokoh Suad memiliki kesadaranakan menjadi Diri yang sangat tinggi. Suad adalah perempuan yang selalu menjadisubjek di antara orang-orang di sekitarnya dan berhasil menjadi perempuan yangbebas untuk menjadi sang Diri seutuhnya.Kata-kata kunci: profeminisme, kontrafeminisme, eksistensialisme feminisme

scholarly journals OJEBETA “THE SELF AWAKENED” IN BUCHI EMECHETA’S THE SLAVE GIRL

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (10) ◽  
pp. 95-99
Author(s):  
Mary Stella Ran B. ◽  
Poli Reddy R.
Keyword(s):  
Christian Education ◽  
Small Degree ◽  
The Self ◽  
African Women ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Buchi Emecheta ◽  
The People ◽  
In The Beginning

The novel “The Slave Girl” by Buchi Emecheta exposes the plights of African women and portrayal of their struggle as slaves and ultimately how they come up the problem and becomes a self-awakened.  In this paper, one can see Ojebeta starting her life as a slave and finally becomes an owner of a house by passing so many phases of life as a slave. In the beginning, she is sold into domestic slavery by her own brother.  She has become the victim to her brother’s traits.  She has become a scapegoat to the plans of African patriarchy.  The intention of Buchi Emecheta is to recreate the image of women through feminism.   Emecheta’s fiction is blended with reality representing socio historical elements of the prevailing society and its environment besides questioning the pathetic conditions of the people in general and women in particular. One can observe the narration of innocence of childhood grown into adulthood by attaining certain amount of freedom with the Christian education which she has received with which she has attained a small degree of self-awareness.

scholarly journals INDIVIDUATION PROCESS OF THE MAIN CHARACTERS IN OKKY MADASARI’S BOUND

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanabillah Fatchu Zuhro
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Middle Age ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Negative Side ◽  
The People ◽  
Individuation Process ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Attitudes And Behavior

The characters in the novel are a reflection of the human condition in real life. Understanding the personality of a character in a novel means understanding the personality of people too. This provides an opportunity to understand the attitudes and behavior of the people in real life through the personality of characters in literary works. Therefore, the researcher considers to discuss the process of individuation of the main characters in Okky Madasari’s Bound. The present study is literary criticism. This research aims to describe the individuation process of the main characters, Sasana and Jaka. The main characters, want the freedom to express their true identity. Through this novel, Okky Madasari wants to convey that life is a choice. Humans have the freedom to choose what they want to be without the negative side being dominant in a person. Along these lines, we can utilize Analytical Psychology to break down this novel with the idea of the individuation process. It employs the theory of individuation process proposed by Carl Gustav Jung covering several steps to achieve the process of individuation of the main characters. There are four kinds of archetypes in order to acknowledge the individuation process. They are “persona”, “shadow”, “anima and animus”, and “Self”. The results of this study show that the main characters still cannot reach the individuation process well. Sasana and Jaka have not yet reached middle age, so Sasana and Jaka have not reached self-archetype yet, because to achieve self-archetype, the characters must reach middle age first.

scholarly journals ESTATES IN LEO TOLSTOY’S NOVEL “RESURRECTION”: FROM DENOUNCING LUXURY TO LIFE ON LAND

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 144-154
Author(s):  
Valeria G. Andreeva ◽  
◽  
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Spiritual Growth ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Inner Life ◽  
Creative Imagination ◽  
The People ◽  
Work Family ◽  
The Individual ◽  
First Time ◽  
Final Text

For the first time in literary criticism, the author of the article turns her attention to the image of the estate in Tolstoy’s later artistic work, showing the dynamics of the writer’s views on estate life, the image of an ideal estate, which for Tolstoy was always associated with the motives of work, family life, proper attitude towards the people, etc. It is noted that in 1880–1910, the estate theme in Tolstoy’s creative imagination was directly related to the problems of land ownership, proper management and correct and gradual path of the individual and their spiritual growth. The picture of estate life In Leo Tolstoy’s novel “Resurrection” is realized in two contrasting versions: luxurious existence of the upper class and the aristocracy, not supported by any content, and transforming into a new image of the working life of the intelligentsia and landowners on the land. The author demonstrates the facts of impoverishment of estate life at the turn of the 19th–20th centuries, which are introduced in the artistic world of the novel. It is proved that the idea in the work of inseparable connection of a person with the people around him and with humanity at large, which is the key conception of the novel, is directly related to Tolstoy’s understanding of the change of the forms of estate life, important and dear for the writer himself. Of great importance in the novel is the awareness of the characters of natural life, which is presented in contrast to civilization, which deviates from the basic laws of love and goodness. On the basis of an analytical comparison of the drafts of the novel and the final text, the author substantiates the importance of the estate theme for understanding the feelings of the protagonist and his inner life, for organizing the epic artistic world of the novel. The article illustrates the stages of the dialectical movement of Dmitry Nekhlyudov and the connection between the estate and family themes. The author rethinks some episodes of the novel that have received controversial interpretations in science and reveals the artistic links that connect different chapters of the work.

scholarly journals “I’m a I’m a Scholar at the Moment”: The Voice of the Literary Critic in the Works of American Scholar-Metafictionists

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-51
Author(s):  
Wojciech Drąg
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Negative Attitude ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Critic ◽  
American Scholar ◽  
Snow White ◽  
The Moment ◽  
The Voice

Abstract In her seminal book on metafiction, Patricia Waugh describes this practice as an obliteration of the distinction between “creation” and “criticism.” This article examines the interplay of the “creative” and the “critical” in five American metafictions from the late 1960s, whose authors were both fictional writers and scholars: Donald Barthelme’s Snow White, John Barth’s Lost in the Funhouse, William H. Gass’s Willie Masters’ Lonesome Wife, Robert Coover’s Pricksongs and Descants and Ronald Sukenick’s The Death of the Novel and Other Stories. The article considers the ways in which the voice of the literary critic is incorporated into each work in the form of a self-reflexive commentary. Although the ostensible principle of metafiction is to merge fiction and criticism, most of the self-conscious texts under discussion are shown to adopt a predominantly negative attitude towards the critical voices they embody – by making them sound pompous, pretentious or banal. The article concludes with a claim that the five works do not advocate a rejection of academic criticism but rather insist on its reform. Their dissatisfaction with the prescriptivism of most contemporary literary criticism is compared to Susan Sontag’s arguments in her essay “Against Interpretation.”

The Failure of the American Dream in “The Great Gatsby”- Fitzgerald

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 299
Author(s):  
Zamira Hodo
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
American Dream ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Social Discrimination ◽  
Pursuit Of Happiness ◽  
Modern Life ◽  
Great Gatsby ◽  
The Great Gatsby ◽  
Good Guide

The American Dream is one of the most important issues, which has drawn the attention of literary criticism through many years. It represents the ideals of a nation: equality, liberty, pursuit of happiness and democracy; ideals that have been understood in different ways by people. The real values related to these ideals changed and deviated from what it was meant into the enormous desire and greed for wealth and power. Fitzgerald tried to reveal that social discrimination is present and no one is treated as equal to others. The following research over the novel “The Great Gatsby” demonstrates how the dream cannot be successful because of the way it is misunderstood by the society and people’s materialism view of modern life. The characters and their attitudes through the chronology of the story are the embodiment of disappointment and the lack of moral values in the pursuance of a dream. Qualitative research used in this study aims to give a clear image and a deep analysis of the novel’s major themes, symbols, the period of writing, author’s life, various perspectives of the American Dream and its failure. We expect this thesis to be a good guide for further readings and projects with an explicit goal that the achievement of a dream does not necessarily requires the loss of the self and an excessive significance to what ruins the personal and the others future.

scholarly journals The Journey Towards the Self: A Study of Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide in an Ecocritical Perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (10) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
A Aravinth Raja
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Fictional Characters ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Amitav Ghosh ◽  
The People ◽  
Nature Experience

This paper attempts to study The Hungry Tide by Amitav Ghosh from anecocritical perspective. The researcher identifies the journey of the characters in the novel towards nature as a metaphorical symbol to the journey in discovering the self. The conflict between the people and the environment is the only obstacle during the journey of the characters in the novel. The characters experience the conflict between the environment and people through observation and at the same time, self-realisation. This paper also identifies the author's concern for nature through the fictional characters in the novel Piyali Roy, a cetologist and Fokir, a local fisherman.In anecocritical perspective, this paper sees the disturbances that the nature experience as a harm towards nature and its progression.

scholarly journals Heeding the Warnings: ‘Sucking up the seas’ in Vance Palmer’s Cyclone

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Jordan
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Historical Record ◽  
Extreme Weather Events ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Critical Response ◽  
The People ◽  
Weather Events ◽  
Environmental Imagination ◽  
New Criterion ◽  
The Impact

Climate change literary criticism calls for fundamental re-evalutions of our critical tools. In representations of extreme weather events, Vance Palmer’s Cyclone set in North Queensland meets many of the new criterion with its story about the impact of the cyclone on individuals, community and plot. The genesis and inspiration of the novel, its writing, its  publication, review and reception can be addressed. The cyclone is seen through the perceptions of different characters. Vance and Nettie Palmer knew many of the people drowned in the 1934 cyclone. Palmer drew on the historical record in his novel, which was published over a decade later. The reception of Cyclone was very limited given it was published locally by Angus & Robertson and had no serious critical response. The environmental imagination has been a powerful force in Australia creative writing and is undervalued in contemporary debates.

scholarly journals Self-Determination of Liz’s Character in Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 31
Author(s):  
Tarwia Ulfa ◽  
Trikaloka Handayani Putri
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Social Life ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Jean Paul ◽  
Love Life ◽  
The Impact

Abstract This study focuses on depicting self-determination performed by main character’s act and how her self-determination gives the impact to her existence. The self determination is the way she takes decision in love life, beliefe, and social life that give impact in her existence. The first problem talks about how Elizabeth Gilbert or Liz determines herself from the conflict in her life. The second will continue the impact she get from her self-determination. This research applies literary criticism in order to describe Self-Determination of Liz’s Character for her existentialism in the phrase, quotation, and statement that related with self-determination in the novel. To answer the problems, this study uses the theory of existentialism by Jean Paul Satre,especially in his book entitled Existentialism is Humanism. The data divides into 2 part that explain about what are the decision Liz take in love life, beliefe, and social life then the impact of her self-determination. The result from the first statement is Liz’s decision as her actualization to determine her destiny in life. Then the impact as her choise she takes is the circumstances she responsible. Key words: Self-determination, existentialism, Jean Paul Sartre, Eat, Pray, Love novel. Abstrak Penelitian ini berfokus pada penggambaran penentuan nasib sendiri yang dilakukan oleh tindakan utama dan bagaimana penentuan nasib sendiri berdampak pada keberadaannya. Penentuan nasib sendiri dari cara dia mengambil keputusan dalam kehidupan cinta, kepercayaan, dan kehidupan sosial yang memberi dampak pada keberadaannya. Masalah pertama berbicara tentang bagaimana Elizabeth Gilbert atau Liz menentukan dirinya dari konflik dalam hidupnya. Yang kedua akan melanjutkan dampak yang didapat dari penentuan nasib sendiri. Penelitian ini menggunakan kritik sastra untuk menggambarkan penentuan nasib sendiri karakter Liz untuk eksistensialismenya dalam frasa, kutipan, dan pernyataan yang terkait dengan penentuan nasib sendiri dalam novel. Untuk menjawab masalah tersebut, penelitian ini menggunakan teori eksistensialisme oleh Jean Paul Satre, khususnya dalam bukunya yang berjudul Existentialism is Humanism. Data dibagi menjadi 2 bagian yang menjelaskan tentang keputusan yang diambil Liz dalam kehidupan cinta, kepercayaan, dan kehidupan sosial kemudian dampak dari penentuan nasib sendiri. Pernyataan pertama adalah keputusan Liz untuk mewujudkan takdirnya dalam kehidupan. Maka dampak dari pilihannya yang dia ambil adalah situasi dia bertanggung jawab. Kata kunci: Penentuan nasib sendiri, eksistensialisme, Jean Paul Sartre, Eat, Pray, Novel cinta.

Analytical Study of Violence Theme in Victoria Schwab’s This Savage Song

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Study ◽  
Research Paper ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Vicious Cycle ◽  
Aggressive Approach ◽  
Research Article ◽  
The People ◽  
The Social ◽  
Different Dimensions ◽  
The Right

This research article focuses on the theme of violence and its representation by the characters of the novel “This Savage Song” by Victoria Schwab. How violence is transmitted through genes to next generations and to what extent socio- psycho factors are involved in it, has also been discussed. Similarly, in what manner violent events and deeds by the parents affect the psychology of children and how it inculcates aggressive behaviour in their minds has been studied. What role is played by the parents in grooming the personality of children and ultimately their decisions to choose the right or wrong way has been argued. In the light of the theory of Judith Harris, this research paper highlights all the phenomena involved: How the social hierarchy controls the behaviour. In addition, the aggressive approach of the people in their lives has been analyzed in the light of the study of second theorist Thomas W Blume. As the novel is a unique representation of supernatural characters, the monsters, which are the products of some cruel deeds, this research paper brings out different dimensions of human sufferings with respect to these supernatural beings. Moreover, the researcher also discusses that, in what manner the curse of violence creates an inevitable vicious cycle of cruel monsters that makes the life of the characters turbulent and miserable.

Persuasion: Fellow Creatures

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pam Morris
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Class Relations ◽  
Narrative Perspective ◽  
Class Hierarchies ◽  
A Chain ◽  
Porous Boundaries

Persuasion overtly foregrounds the self as embodied: physical accidents and sickness are recurrent. Sir Walter Eliot’s belief in the time-defying bodily grace of nobility is subject to Austen’s harshest irony. The transition from vertically ordered place to horizontal space in Persuasion is more extreme than in any other of the completed novels. Anne Elliot’s movement from social exclusiveness to socially inclusive possibility allows Austen to challenge gender and class hierarchies traditionally held to be inborn. Her writerly experimentation expands the possibilities of narrative perspective to encompass the porous boundaries of the physical, the emotional and the rational that constitute any moment of consciousness. Her focalisation techniques in the text look directly towards Woolf’s stylist innovations. A chain of references to guns and shooting gathers into the novel contentious contemporary discursive networks on class relations, notions of masculinity and the nature of creaturely life.

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