CULTURAL IDENTITY AND SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM IN KARMA BROWN’S NOVEL “RECIPE FOR A PERFECT WIFE”

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alia Afiyati ◽  
Divya Widyastuti ◽  
Yoga Pratama
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Symbolic Interactionism ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Cultural Identities ◽  
George Herbert ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
George Herbert Mead ◽  
The Past ◽  
Stuart Hall

In a literary work, two characters can be narrated as the attention center that contains the cultural identity from certain generation. Meanwhile, a symbol actually can cause an interaction within characters. This research discusses about cultural identity and symbolic interactionism reflected in a novel. There is a novel entitled “Recipe for a Perfect Wife” by Karma Brown that tells about two female characters that are represented as a housewife from different generation. This research uses descriptive qualitative as the research methodology and content  analysis as the method in analyzing the object of the research, a novel entitled “Recipe for a Perfect Wife”. This research also uses the intrinsic approach to analyze the characterization, plot, and setting. This research reveals two kinds of a housewife. They are a housewife and working woman, and a full-housewife. This research finds five cultural identities in the past and present time that is related with a housewife reflected by two female characters in the novel by using cultural identity theory by Stuart Hall. This research also reveals the symbol and memory even three concepts of symbolic interactionism that is mind, self, and society based on symbolic interactionism theory by George Herbert Mead.

scholarly journals Matriarchal Society in The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-33
Author(s):  
Teta Irama Setri ◽  
Dwi Budi Setiawan
Keyword(s):  
Women Characters ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Economic Condition ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Historical Approach ◽  
The Past ◽  
Library Research ◽  
Feminine Divine

This research discusses a novel which written by Sue Monk Kidd entitled The Secret Life of Bees. The writers aims to describe the matriarchal society issue that is often regarded as the opposed of patriarchy. This research aims to answer the question how levels of matriarchal society described in the novel The Secret Life of Bees through women characters in the story. This study applies descriptive qualitative method and typically library research. This research applies socio-historical approach in order to look at the relation between literary work and society’s historical elements that happen in the past. At political level, August character shows as the matriarch or the leader in community with important role for overcoming conflict and decision making process. At economical level, it shows that matriarchal society common practice has right and same position in economic affair and giving gift each other to make the economic condition balance. Last, at spiritual and cultural level, it is described that women characters in The Secret Life of Bees believe in feminine divine which is the Black Mary and doing worship for her. In conclusion, The Secret Life of Bees novel clearly depicts matriarchal society based on the theory of Matriarchy by Heide Göettner-Abendroth.Keyword: The Secret Life of Bees, Matriarchy, Matriarchal Society, Levels of Matriarchal Society, Socio-historical Approach

scholarly journals The Construction of Cultural Identity on “Tamu dari Jakarta” Short Story

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Puri Bestari Mardani
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Interaction ◽  
Cross Culture ◽  
The Past ◽  
Interesting Topic ◽  
Big City ◽  
Stuart Hall ◽  
Identity Problems

Identity is liquid and changeable as time goes by. The change of identity is possible since identity can be formed both from the past and from the future. In the case of cross culture, one’s identity may have certain problems especially in determining cultural identity. Problems in cultural identity have become an interesting topic to be discussed. It was also an interesting topic for writer to color their literature work.The focus of this research is the cultural identity in “Tamu dari Jakarta” (2002) short story by Jujur Prananto. This story brings out an interesting topic about a villager named Ratna who move into a big city (Jakarta). Problem of cultural identity was clearly seen when she visited her hometown (Klaten), the villagers no longer see her as one of them instead the saw her as a visitor or according to the title of this short story, a guest from Jakarta.The form of this research is a textual analysis research using the concept of cultural identity by Stuart Hall. This research shows that the cultural identity of Ratna is constructed through positioned and positioning identity that is shown from the cross-cultural interaction between characters in this story. Furthermore, the proses of being positioned and positioning was based on the stereotype of Jakarta citizen. However this story gave a different view and new insight on the stereotype of Jakarta citizen.   Keywords: cultural identity, cross-cultural, Jakarta citizen

scholarly journals REPRESENTASI NAGA PADA TOKOH PEREMPUAN DALAM NOVEL GELANG GIOK NAGA (The Representation of Dragon of Women Character in Gelang Giok Naga)

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
Resti Nurfaidah
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Imaginary World ◽  
Stuart Hall

Naga merupakan hewan yang paling istimewa di antara kedua belas simbol hewan dalam penanggalan Cina. Jika binatang lain masih dapat dilihat dalam kehidupan nyata, naga merupakan hewan yang imajiner. Namun, naga dianggap sebagai sumber peruntungan yang luar biasa. Tahun naga dianggap sebagai tahun keberuntungan. Hanya saja, keberuntungan tersebut tidak lantas mengundang risiko kehancuran yang tidak kalah dahsyatnya. Novel Gelang Giok Naga  mengungkapkan representasi keagungan naga pada serangkaian tokoh perempuan. Perempuan-perempuan yang digambarkan dalam novel tersebut adalah perempuan yang pada awalnya mampu meraih keberuntungan dengan caranya sendiri, tetapi dalam kurun waktu tertentu mendapati kehancuran. Makalah berikut, dengan penggunaan teori representasi dari Stuart Hall, memaparkan representasi naga pada beberapa tokoh perempuan dalam novel Gelang Giok Naga. Tokoh perempuan itu dianggap merepresentasikan karakter naga dengan segala konsekuensinya.Abstract:Dragon is the most special animal among  twelve symbolical animals in the Chinese calendar. If other animals are found in the reality, the dragon is only  found in an imaginary world. However, it is considered as a source of the incredible fortune. The year of the dragon is considered a lucky year. Nevertheless, the luck  does not mean to give an incredible risk. Gelang Giok Naga novel reveals the representation of the dragon greatness on its female characters. The women in the novel are those  who initially got their great fortune in their own way, yet in the end they got  a certain period of  falling. The paper, applying the theory of the Stu ar t Ha ll ’s  repres en ta ti on , presents the dragon  representation on those female characters in in the novel. The women character is considered representing the dragon character with its consequences.

Life histories and the perspective of the present

2004 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaretha Järvinen
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Life Histories ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Past Experience ◽  
The Self ◽  
George Herbert ◽  
True Self ◽  
George Herbert Mead ◽  
The Past

The purpose of the article is to suggest a development of the narrative life history tradition along the lines represented by George Herbert Mead and Paul Ricoeur. This theoretical approach is presented as an alternative to both subjectivist approaches, that continue the search for the solitary, true self behind the life histories, and to structuralist approaches, in which the self and its past experience disappears. In the article a theoretical framework is sketched that a) focuses on “the perspective of the present” but does not lose sight of the past, and b) emphasizes the interactionist dimensions of life histories but also pays attention to the self and its ongoing projects. The reasonings of Mead and Ricoeur are applied to a series of empirical examples, drawn from different areas of life history research. (Time, Narrative, Emplotment, Life Histories, Self, Mead, Ricoeur)

scholarly journals KAJIAN TENTANG INTERAKSIONISME SIMBOLIK

PERSPEKTIF ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nina Siti Salmaniah Siregar
Keyword(s):  
Symbolic Interactionism ◽  
Symbolic Interaction ◽  
George Herbert ◽  
Interaction Theory ◽  
George Herbert Mead ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
The Mind ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Attitudes And Behavior ◽  
Symbolic Interaction Theory

The basic idea of symbolic interaction theory states that the emblem or symbol of culture are learned through interaction, people give meaning to everything that will control their attitudes and behavior. To understand the interaction of symbolic (symbolic interactionism) is a way of thinking about the mind (mind), self (self) and society (society).By using sociology as a foundation, as well as teaching that when human interact with each other, they share the meaning for a certain period and for a specific action. George Herbert Mead is a figure who is seen as symbolic interaction builders understand this. He taught that the meaning comes as a result of interaction between people, both verbally and nonverbally. Through the actions and responses that occur, we give meaning to the words or actions, and therefore we can also understand an even in certain ways too, because people are assumed to a rise from interrelated conversations between individuals.

scholarly journals Recent Contributions to the Irish Novel by Sara Baume, Anna Burns and Eleanor O’Reilly: On Language, Words and Wordlessness

Oceánide ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 85-94
Author(s):  
Margarita Estévez-Saá
Keyword(s):  
Women Writers ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Unstable Condition ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
Irish Women ◽  
Identity Crises

The purpose of this contribution is to study three young writers who have offered, in the past three years, in a distinctively new voice, further instances of the Irish writers’ endless ability to experiment with the form of the novel. Sara Baume’s "A Line Made by Walking" (2017), Anna Burns’s "Milkman" (2018), and Eleanor O’Reilly’s "m for mammy" (2019) are three representative instances of the potential of the form of the novel in the hands of Irish women writers. Each of these novels deserve a study in its own due to their complexity and interest, but analysing them together offers us a unique opportunity to assess the thriving state of novel writing in Ireland, especially in the hands of Irish women writers.The three novels object of our study deal with identity crises, and they similarly represent their protagonists as struggling against society and its structures, be it the family, local communities, the world of art, nature or politics. Furthermore, the three authors have been able to devise alternative narrative styles, techniques and even endings that enabled them to render the complexities of the topics dealt with as well as to represent the unstable condition of their protagonists. In addition, Baume, Burns and O’Reilly have significantly chosen as protagonists female characters with artistic or intellectual aspirations who allow the authors to endow their respective narratives with metaliterary meditations on the possibilities as well as limits of language, words and wordlessness.

scholarly journals Representations of suppressed indigenous cultural memories: the communities of Sami of Finland and Kurdish of Turkey

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-175
Author(s):  
Adél Furu
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Folk Music ◽  
Cultural Memory ◽  
Cultural Identities ◽  
Political Discourses ◽  
The Past ◽  
Traditional Songs ◽  
State Interventions

In my paper I intend to examine how the historical marginalization of Sami and Kurdish history and culture affects the cultural identity of these ethnic groups. I discuss how recent political discourses and state interventions have influenced the images of the past and identity politics in the Sami communities living in Finland and in the Kurdish society living in Turkey. Furthermore, I describe how these assimilated minorities have alienated from their own identity due to a damage of their collective memory caused by devastating historical events. The paper also focuses on the ways these two minorities give meaning to the past and strengthen their cultural identities through different forms of art. Both Samis and Kurds express their identities in several creative ways. Their historical realities, individual histories, memories of assimilation and common values are reflected in joiks, folk music and cinema. These are strong ways of remembering and expressions of identity in both cultures. Traditional songs, films, documentaries reveal histories, reproduce cultures and shape the memories of both Sami and Kurdish people. Therefore, I will discuss how the patterns of their cultural memory have an impact on the representation of their identities in the above art forms.

scholarly journals George Herbert Mead on Humans and Other Animals: Social Relations after Human-Animal Studies

2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 182-194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rhoda Wilkie ◽  
Andrew Mckinnon
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Symbolic Interactionism ◽  
Animal Studies ◽  
George Herbert ◽  
George Herbert Mead ◽  
Nonhuman Animals ◽  
Human Animal

The turn towards nonhuman animals within sociology has shed a critical light on George Herbert Mead, his apparent prioritisation of language and the anthropocentric focus of Symbolic Interactionism (SI). Although Herbert Blumer canonised Mead as the founder of this perspective he also played a key role in excising the evolutionary and ‘more-than-human’ components in Mead's work. This intervention not only misrepresented Mead's intellectual project, it also made symbols the predominant concern in Blumer's version of SI. Since groundbreaking animal sociologists in America framed much of their thinking in opposition to SI's emphasis on language, because it excluded alingual animal others from sociological consideration, Mead's Mind, Self, and Society has largely functioned as a negative classic within this sub-field. Although some scholars recognise there is more in Mead's work that is potentially applicable to this interspecies area the attempt to recover what might be helpful has yet to begin (e.g. Alger & Alger 1997 ). This paper suggests that if the ambiguities and contradictions that exist alongside Mead's oft-quoted anthropocentrisms are also attended to this may open up a more positive reading and use of Mead's work for animal sociology.

scholarly journals Identitas Budaya, Kreativitas, dan Kajian Arkeologi Publik

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (23) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Andri Restiyadi
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Cultural Influence ◽  
Public Archaeology ◽  
Cultural Identities ◽  
Archaeological Research ◽  
View Point ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Public Role ◽  
Foreign Culture

AbstractPublic Archaeology can’t be understood as a narrow-minded view point as an archaeological research and their object’s presentation and representation at the public only. However, public archaeology must be understood more widely as an archaeological view point for understand the public requirements and importance. These discipline have an important meaning for the socialization of supreme culture values at the past. On the future, those values will be reinforcing the national cultural identities from the foreign cultural influence. In order to those purpose, public role, active and seletive creativity in the foreign culture adoption without leaving any cultural identity, will be necessary.

scholarly journals Negotiation of Cultural Identities in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 2780-2782
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Sense Of Belonging ◽  
Positive Attitude ◽  
Cultural Identities ◽  
The Novel ◽  
The West ◽  
Negative Attitudes ◽  
Minor Characters ◽  
Nigerian Literature ◽  
Global World

The Nigerian literature illuminates on the experiences of migration which makes a person oscillate between two different places. The novel describes the formative process of Ifelmu and Obinze who fall in love in Nigeria and migrate to the west ,and they ultimately reunite in Nigeria after fifteen long years .The article explores the negotiation of cultural identity in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel the Americanah (2013). The Protagonist and other minor characters questions identity, sense of belonging and they try being as positive models through a negative stereotypical society. The characters undergo a redemptive process through migration as they encounter problem with Race, Language and Hair which culturally connects them to the roots. The article attempts to showcase how culture gets fragmented in the global world where the notion of identity becomes an ever changing factor. As the characters undergo changes because of the convoluted identity they struggle to thrive in their hardships. The article also attempts to focus on how negative attitudes and approaches reminds them of their past and develops a positive attitude enabling them to create an identity for themselves in a diasporic society

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