scholarly journals Representasi Perilaku Priayi Dalam Novel Gadis Pantai: Kisah Seorang Gundik Bendoro Santri

ATAVISME ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-44
Author(s):  
Purwantini Purwantini
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Life Style ◽  
City Council ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Traditional Authority ◽  
Colonial Government ◽  
The City ◽  
High Social Status

Di lingkungan masyarakat Jawa masih terdapat otoritas tradisional yang membawa kewibawaan dan mempunyai status sosial tinggi di mata rakyat, otoritas tradisional tersebut adalah golongan priayi. Golongan priayi mempunyai gaya hidup yang spesifik jika dibandingkan dengan kelompok masyarakat lainnya. Ciri­‐ciri gaya hidup golongan priayi antara lain berupa adat istiadat yang baik, perilaku sopan santun, dan selalu berbicara dengan bahasa yang halus. Secara fisik dapat dilihat dari bentuk rumah kediaman, pakaian kebesaran, gelar kekuasaan, ritualisasi, serta simbol­‐simbol yang melekat padanya. Jadi, golongan priayi adalah kaum bangsawan termasuk para bupati, pegawai pemerintah kolonial, serta keturunan raja-raja di pulau Jawa. Namun, kaum priayi dalam novel Gadis Pantai adalah seorang bangsawan yang berperilaku kasar, biadab, serta berbuat kekejaman terhadap wanita yang pernah dipeliharanya. Akhirnya, otoritas tradisional ini berubah menjadi carut marut tanpa terkendali karena kebiasaan memperlakukan para gundiknya secara tidak manusiawi bahkan agama digunakan sebagai kedok untuk melecehkan kaum santri. Abstract: Javanese society recognizes a traditional authority that shows esteem and possesses high social status in the eyes of the society. This traditional authority is called “priayi”. The life style of this priayi compare to the other group of society’s life style is specific. The natures of their life style among others are politeness, good conduct, and the use of fine language for communication. This group of society can be identified from their physical existence such as their houses, outfits, titles, rituals, and symbols attached to them. The priayi society group is the group of noblemen including the city council, employees working for colonial government, kings and their ancestors in Java. Nevertheless, priayi in the novel Gadis Pantai is unlike the typical priayi member. In this novel, the priayi is the group of people with harsh conduct, bad manner, disrespect, and cruelty to their concubines. At the end, this traditional authority went out of control and turned into disarray due to their inhumane treatment toward their concubines. To some extent, they even exploited religion as a tool to misjudge the group santri ‘strict adherent of Islam’. Key Words: priayi; santri; concubines

scholarly journals Identifying Characters of “Where Angel Fear to Tread Novel” in Teaching Literary Work

AL-TA LIM ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-145
Author(s):  
Suhaimi Suhaimi
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Central Figure ◽  
Library Research ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Central Characters ◽  
High Social Status

The aim of the research is to identify some characters in the novel Where Angels Fear to Tread in teaching literary works. In learning of characters, someone will understand about the term of the interests, desires, emotions, and moral those form the individual within a story. Library research was used in thid study. The experts divide characters become two characters; they are central characters and additional characters. Central characters are a character who takes the greatest part in the main character or a figure that is most telling. Volume appearance of the main character more than the other characters. Meanwhile, additional characters or subordinate figures are figures that appear once or several times, figures that support or assist the central figure. In the novel Where Angels Fear To Tread, writer found some figures or characters such as: Mrs. Herriton, Lilia, Philip, Gino, and Carroline Abbot. Each of them had different characters; Mrs Herriton was a selfish and arrogant because she came from a high social status. Lilia was a patient and never denied what was ruled by her mother in-low although sometimes she was often treated her like slaves. Philip was figured as a handsome man, his tolerance and empathy were high. Gino was figured as stupid character. Miss Abbott as a nice, quiet, dull, and friendly.

KONSEP DIRI “ I “ DAN “ME” TOKOH HIROKO DALAM NOVEL NAMAKU HIROKO KARYA NH.DINI

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 109
Author(s):  
Besin Gaspar
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Self Concept ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Main Character ◽  
Fictional Character ◽  
Social Customs ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Village ◽  
The City

This research deals with the development of  self concept of Hiroko as the main character in Namaku Hiroko by Nh. Dini and tries to identify how Hiroko is portrayed in the story, how she interacts with other characters and whether she is portrayed as a character dominated by ”I” element or  ”Me”  element seen  from sociological and cultural point of view. As a qualitative research in nature, the source of data in this research is the novel Namaku Hiroko (1967) and the data ara analyzed and presented deductively. The result of this analysis shows that in the novel, Hiroko as a fictional character is  portrayed as a girl whose personality  develops and changes drastically from ”Me”  to ”I”. When she was still in the village  l iving with her parents, she was portrayed as a obedient girl who was loyal to the parents, polite and acted in accordance with the social customs. In short, her personality was dominated by ”Me”  self concept. On the other hand, when she moved to the city (Kyoto), she was portrayed as a wild girl  no longer controlled by the social customs. She was  firm and determined totake decisions of  her won  for her future without considering what other people would say about her. She did not want to be treated as object. To put it in another way, her personality is more dominated by the ”I” self concept.

scholarly journals Breach of Contact: An Intercultural Reading of China Miéville's 'The City and The City'

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Elizabeth Hanna ◽  
Peter Cowley
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Models ◽  
The Other ◽  
Intercultural Training ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Intercultural Encounters ◽  
Training Courses ◽  
City States ◽  
City Relations ◽  
The City ◽  
Two Populations

China Miéville’s 2009 'Weird' detective novel The City and The City is a tale of two city states, culturally distinct, between which unpoliced contact is forbidden. While residents of each city can learn about the other’s history, geography, politics, see photographs and watch news footage of the other city, relations between the two are tightly monitored and any direct contact requires a series of protocols, some of which might seem reasonable, or at least familiar: entry permits, international mail, international dialing codes, intercultural training courses. What complicates these apparently banal measures is the relative positioning of the two cities, each one around, within, amongst the other. The two populations live side by side, under a regime which requires ostentatious and systematic disregard or 'unnoticing' of the other in any context but a tightly regulated set of encounters. For all that interculturality is endemic to everyday life in the 21st century, what is striking is that critical and popular uptake of this novel so frequently decries the undesirability, the immorality even, of the cultural separation between the two populations, framing it as an allegory of unjust division within a single culture, and thus by implication endorsing the erasure of intercultural difference. We propose an alternative reading which sees this novel as exploring the management of intercultural encounters, and staging the irreducibility of intercultural difference. We examine how the intercultural is established in the novel, and ask how it compares to its representations in prevalent theoretical models, specifically that of the Third Place.

scholarly journals Monitoring the Unvisible: Seeing and Unseeing in China Mievelle's The City & The City

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 222-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Marks
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Potential Value ◽  
Two Cities ◽  
The City ◽  
Do So ◽  
The Invisible

Visibility is central to surveillance, but the term is both complex and ambiguous. This article seeks to  add to that complexity and prdocutively investigate the ambiguity by putting forward the concept of the 'unvisible' represented in China Mieviile's recent dystopian novel, The City & The City. Mieville's fiction depicts a world in which characters live in two cities that occupy the same space--are, in the novel's terms, 'topolgangers'. In order to maintain this curious situation, people from one city are required to unsee those from the other, to make them unvisible.  Failure to do so incures punishment from a surveillance force. These and other inventive notions challenge what constitutes visibility.  Briefly addressing ideas on visibility by surveillance theorists, the article argues that The City & The City usefully tests out those ideas. Gary T. Marx has written about the potential 'gradations' between the visible and the invisible. Through a detalied reading of the novel, the article argues for the potential value of the 'unvisible' in those gradations.

Translating Irony in Popular Fiction

Babel ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 97-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Linder
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Popular Fiction ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Raymond Chandler ◽  
Dramatic Effect

Raymond Chandler published his first novel, The Big Sleep, in 1939. There are two Spanish translations of the novel, both titled El sueño eterno, one published in 1958 by Aguilar (Madrid) and the other in 1972 by Barral (Barcelona). This study analyzes irony in the two Spanish translations and concludes that both translations fail to reflect the degree of irony present in Chandler’s original, especially with respect to the translation of two key words, cute and giggle, and the dramatic effect of the novel’s climax is dampened as a consequence. Also, it is demonstrated that the 1972 version is, if not an outright plagiarism of the earlier 1958 version, at the very least a version which does not meet the criteria for originality.

scholarly journals Dos libros y una novela: la función sintagmática y paradigmática de los espacios en Rayuela

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
Libertad Garzón Hurtado
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Typical Feature ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Narrative Space ◽  
Textual Cohesion ◽  
Present Text

ResumenEl presente texto se pregunta por el sentido de los “dos libros” contenidos en Rayuela y anunciados por Cortázar en el Tablero de dirección al inicio de la novela. Se propone aquí un análisis semióticoestructural centrado en dos modalidades del espacio narrativo que representan dos modos de cohesión textual: la sintagmática de los macro-espacios y la paradigmática de los micro-espacios en la novela. Mediante este análisis se intenta mostrar cómo la narrativa resultante de cada uno de los órdenes posibles de lectura (el consecutivo y el salteado) se sostiene sobre ejes de construcción distintos, dando lugar a dos sistemas comunicativos diferentes: uno característico de la narrativa, y el otro de la poesía.Palabras clave: Espacio narrativo, Cortázar, Rayuela, frontera semiótica, ejes sintagmático y paradigmático, novela poética.*************************************************Two books and one novel: the syntagmatic and paradigmatic function of Rayuela’s spacesAbstractThe present text considers the question for the sense of the two books contained in Rayuela, which were, also, announced by Cortazar in the Direction board at the beginning of the novel. A semioticstructural analysis is proposed here centred in two modalities of the narrative space that represent two ways of textual cohesion: the syntagmatic one of the macro-spaces and the paradigmatic one of micro-spaces in the novel. Through this study we intend to show how the resulting narrative of each one of the possible reading orders (the consecutive reading and the jump reading) stands over different construction axis, giving way to two different communicative systems: one which is a typical feature of narrative, and the other one a typical feature of poetry.  Key words: Narrative space, Cortázar, Rayuela, semiotic border, syntagmatic and paradigmatic functions, verse/poetry novel.**************************************************Dois livros e uma novela: a função sintagmática e paradigmática dos espaços em Rayuela ResumoEste texto pregunta pelo sentido dos “dois livros” presentes em Rayuela e anunciados por Cortázar  no Tabuleiro de Direção no início da novela. Propõe-se aqui uma análise semiótico-estrutural centrada  em duas modalidades do espaço narrativo que representam dois modos de coesãon textual: a sintagmática dos macro-espaços e a paradigmática dos micro-espaços na novela. O objetivo dessa análise é mostrar como a narrativa resultante de cada uma das ordens possíveis de leitura (sequencial ou pula-pula) se apoia em eixos de construção distintos, dando lugar a dois sistemas comunicativos diferentes: um, característico da narrativa, e o outro,   poesia. Palavras-chave: Espaço narrativo, Cortázar, Rayuela, fronteira semiótica, eixes sintagmático e paradigmático, novela poética

scholarly journals El enigma de lo insignificante. Subjetividad y ciudad en "Jakob von Gunten"

2016 ◽  
pp. 289
Author(s):  
Juan Evaristo Valls Boix
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Robert Walser ◽  
The One ◽  
The City

El propósito del presente estudio consiste en analizar las relaciones entre subjetividad y espacio urbano a través de la novela Jakob von Gunten de Robert Walser. La novela desarrolla una tensión entre, de un lado, un instituto de enseñanza y una forma de subjetividad entendida como interioridad privada y normativizada, y, de otro, la ciudad como espacio de lo múltiple y lo irrepresentable y una forma de subjetividad entendida como intimidad o secreto. La tensión entre ambas relaciones espacio-sujeto supone una versión peculiar de la dialéctica entre modernización y modernidad tal y como Benjamin o Kracauer la relatan, y permite pensar formas alternativas y superpuestas de concebir la subjetividad y el espacio a partir de distintas lecturas de un texto. The purpose of the present study is to analyze the relations between subjectivity and urban space through the novel Jakob von Gunten by Robert Walser. The novel develops a tension between, on the one hand, an institute of teaching and a form of subjectivity understood as private and normative interiority, and, on the other, the city as a space of the multiple and the unrepresentable and a form of subjectivity understood as intimacy The secret. The tension between both space-subject relations supposes a peculiar version of the dialectic between modernization and modernity as Benjamin or Kracauer relate it, and allows to think alternative and superposed forms of conceiving the subjectivity and the space from different readings of a text.

scholarly journals Etikken i den maskerede by. Om Baumans etiske afvisning af den postmoderne bys æstetisering

2009 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-23
Author(s):  
Lasse Suonperä Liebst
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Emmanuel Levinas ◽  
Urban Sociology ◽  
The Other ◽  
Ethical Responsibility ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Per Se ◽  
The Stranger ◽  
The City ◽  
Ethical Demand

Artiklen problematiserer Zygmunt Baumans argument om, at æstetiseringen i den postmoderne by er uforenelig med en virksom etisk ansvarlighed for den fremmede i byen. Denne forståelse er kraftigt inspireret af Emmanuel Lévinas’ fænomenologiske nærhedsetik, der forstår æstetik og etik som antagonistiske fænomener. Med afsæt i denne forståelse anser Bauman æstetiseringen af den Anden, som en maskering af det nøgne ansigt, der ifølge Lévinas er den etiske fordrings kilde. Hermed mødes den Anden ikke som et unikt menneske, men snarere som et overfladisk objekt, der nydes uden etisk ansvar. Artiklen peger på, at Knud E. Løgstrups fænomenologiske nærhedsetik – som Bauman fejlagtigt jævnfører med Levinas’ – tilbyder en interessant alternativ forståelse af forholdet imellem æstetik og etik: Ifølge Løgstrup har æstetikken nemlig forrang for etikken. Artiklens afgørende argument bliver i lyset heraf, at den etiske fordring som den Anden stiller, forudsætter at jeg er i kontakt med dennes liv, hvilket netop sker i den æstetiske sansning. Den æstetiske maskering af den Anden kan således ikke per se afskrives som en uetisk objektificering, men rummer snarere potentialet til, at jeg på sanselig-æstetisk vis kommer i stemt nærvær med det liv, der fordrer mig etisk. ENGELSK ABSTRACT: Lasse Suonperä Liebst: Ethics in the Masked City The article questions Zygmunt Bauman’s argument that the aesthetization of the postmodern city is incompatible with the existence of an ethical responsibility towards the stranger in the city. This argument stems from Emmanuel Lévinas’ phenomenological ethics of proximity according to which aesthetical and ethical phenomena are antagonistic. Bauman’s lévinasian argument is based on the assumption that the aesthetization of The Other in the city veils the naked face which, according to Lévinas, is ethically demanding. This way, The Other is not faced as a unique human being, but rather as a masked and fungible object, which can be enjoyed without any responsibility. In this article it is argued that Knud E. Løgstrup’s phenomenological ethics of proximity, which Bauman sees as nearly equivalent to Lévinas’ ethics, offers an alternative theoretical concep-tualization. According to Løgstrup, the aesthetics has primacy over the ethical: The ethical demand of The Other presupposes that I am in contact with the life of The Other which takes place in a sensuous-aesthetic way. The aesthetical masking of The Other, thus, is not per se an unethical objectification, but rather a sensuous way to become ethical demanded by the Other. Key words: Zygmunt Bauman, Knud E. Løgstrup, Emmanuel Lévinas, urban sociology, aesthetization, ethics of proximity.

scholarly journals “LIKE YOU, I WANT TO FEEL EXCITEMENT AND HOPE ABOUT OUR CITY”: ‘CHRISTCHURCH THE CITY’ IN CAMPAIGN MATERIAL OF THE 2013 CHRISTCHURCH CITY COUNCIL ELECTION

2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sally Carlton
Keyword(s):  
Physical Environment ◽  
Local Politics ◽  
City Council ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
City Space ◽  
The One ◽  
The City ◽  
Post Disaster

The Christchurch City Council election of 2013 provides a compelling case study through which to consider the interaction between politics and city space. On the one hand, through the careful placement of campaign posters, politics encroached on the physical terrain of the city. On the other hand, candidates included in their campaign material multitudinous references to ‘Christchurch the city,’ demonstrating the extent to which the physical environment of the post-disaster city had become central to local politics.

scholarly journals Beyond the Margins: Identity Fragmentation in Visual Representation in Michel Tournier’s "La Goutte d’or"

Text Matters ◽  
2012 ◽  
pp. 250-263
Author(s):  
Richard J. II Gray
Keyword(s):  
Identity Construction ◽  
Visual Representation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Visual Images ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Spatial Property ◽  
Object A ◽  
Postcolonial Identity ◽  
Identity Based ◽  
The City

In the final scene of Michel Tournier’s postcolonial novel La Goutte d’or (1986), the protagonist, Idriss, shatters the glass of a Cristobal & Co. storefront window while operating a jackhammer in the working-class Parisian neighbourhood on the Rue de la Goutte d’or. Glass fragments fly everywhere as the Parisian police arrive. In La Goutte d’or, Tournier explores the identity construction of Idriss through a discussion of the role that visual images play in the development of a twentieth-century consciousness of the “Other.” At the beginning of the novel, a French tourist takes a photograph of Idriss during her visit to the Sahara. The boy’s quest to reclaim his stolen image leads him from the Sahara to Marseille, and finally to the Rue de la Goutte d’or in Paris. The Rue de la Goutte d’or remains one the most cosmopolitan neighbourhoods of the city. In Tournier’s novel, the goutte d’or also corresponds to a symbolic object: a Berber jewel. It is the jewel that Idriss brings with him, but which he also subsequently loses upon his arrival in Marseille. From the very moment that the French tourist photographs him, a marginalization of Idriss’s identity occurs. Marginality, quite literally, refers to the spatial property of a location in which something is situated. Figuratively speaking, marginality suggests something that is on the edges or at the outer limits of social acceptability. In this essay, I explore the construction of the marginalized postcolonial self (the “Other”) through an examination of the function of visual representation in the development of a postcolonial identity in La Goutte d’or. In the end, I conclude that the construction of a postcolonial identity is based upon fragmentation and marginalization, which ultimately leads its subject to create an identity based upon false constructions.

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