scholarly journals Disciplinary Power, Surveillance, and the Docile Body in Mark Dunn’s Ella Minnow Pea

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 2675-2690
Author(s):  
Hasanain Riyadh Abdulzahra ◽  
Zainor Izat Zainal ◽  
Mohamed Ewan Awang ◽  
Hardev Kaur Jujar Singh
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Valuable Insight ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Prominent Feature ◽  
Disciplinary Power ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Authoritarian State ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Negative Impacts

Power in contemporary society is a prominent feature in literary works, especially in postmodernist literary works. Mark Dunn is an American novelist who deals with the subject of power prominently in his works, especially his first novel Ella Minnow Pea (2001). While previous studies on Dunn’s Ella Minnow Pea focused on aspects of violence, sexuality, and psychological aspects of power, this study concentrates on disciplinary aspects of power, such as surveillance, which is used to subjugate subjects without the use of violence to transform them into productive, docile bodies. The study explores Ella Minnow Pea through Foucault’s concept of disciplinary power, surveillance, and docile body. In Foucault’s view, disciplinary power is used as a conversion method to force individuals into submission to authority characterised by conformity and obedience, or docility. The study examines power manipulation, disciplinary practices, and the effectiveness of surveillance as methods for converting people into productive docile bodies and how the novel achieved this result. In addition, it delves into the characters’ responses in the novel to these machinations, which ultimately reveal that the negative impacts of repressive disciplinary power contrast with the benefits anticipated by the authoritarian state. This study provides a valuable insight on the use of Foucauldian concepts in literary criticism as the concepts chosen for this analysis have not previously been applied to this text.

REPRESENTASI KETIDAKADILAN GENDER DALAM PRAKTIK PERDAGANGAN PEREMPUAN PADA NOVEL MIMI LAN MINTUNA [Representation of Gender Injustice in Women's Trafficking Practices in the Mimi lan Mintuna Novel]

TOTOBUANG ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 43-60
Author(s):  
Zahrotun Ulfah
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Sexual Exploitation ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Feminist Literary Criticism ◽  
The Social ◽  
Trafficking In Women ◽  
The Subject

The practice of trafficking in women is still a phenomenon in various countries, including Indonesia. In fact, this problem has been raised into the literary work, Remi Silado's Mimi lan Mintuna. This novel tells the story of Indonesian women who were trafficked to Bangkok for the purpose of sexual exploitation. This study was conducted to reveal the practice of trafficking in women reflected in literary works as the author's response to the social realities that exist in society. This study uses the theory of socialist feminist literary criticism which considers that gender injustice experienced by women is caused by a marriage between patriarchy and capitalism. The method used is descriptive qualitative to understand the phenomenon on the subject of the study and use the assistive method of reading as a woman. Reading as a Woman is the awareness of gender differences in the process of reading literary works that also influence the meaning. The results of this study reveal that the practice of trafficking in women reflected in the novel, there are various gender injustices that are manifested in forms such as making women as objects of violence, sexual objects, economic marginalization, and the formation of stereotypes on women namely as submissive creatures and easily conquered. In response, this study also revealed feminist ideas as a rejection of gender injustice experienced. These feminist ideas include women's liberation from male domination, women who have strength and courage, women's ability to determine their destiny, women who are economically independent, and women who have intelligence. Praktik perdagangan perempuan masih menjadi fenomena di berbagai negara, termasuk Indonesia. Bahkan, masalah tersebut telah diangkat ke dalam karya sastra, Mimi lan Mintuna karya Remy Silado. Novel ini bercerita tentang perempuan-perempuan Indonesia yang diperdagangkan ke Bangkok dengan tujuan ekploitasi seksual. Kajian ini dilakukan untuk mengungkapkan praktik perdagangan perempuan yang tercermin di dalam karya sastra sebagai respons pengarang terhadap realitas sosial yang ada dalam masyarakat. Kajian ini menggunakan teori kritik sastra feminis sosialis yang menganggap bahwa ketidakadilan gender yang dialami perempuan disebabkan oleh perkawinan antara patriarki dan kapitalisme. Metode yang digunakan adalah deskriptif kualitatif untuk memahami fenomena pada subjek kajian serta menggunakan metode bantu yaitu reading as a women.Reading as a Women ialah adanya kesadaran perbedaan jenis kelamin dalam proses pembacaan karya sastra yang turut memengaruhi dalam pemaknaan karya sastra. Hasil kajian ini mengungkap bahwa praktik perdagangan perempuan yang tercermin dalam novel, terdapat berbagai ketidakadilan gender yang termanifestasikan ke dalam bentuk seperti menjadikan perempuan sebagai objek kekerasan, objek seksual, marginalisasi ekonomi, serta pembentukan stereotipe pada perempuan yakni sebagai makhluk penurut dan mudah ditaklukkan. Sebagai responsnya, kajian ini juga mengungkap  ide feminis sebagai penolakan atas ketidakadilan gender yang dialami. Ide-ide feminis tersebut, diantaranya pembebasan perempuan terhadap dominasi laki-laki, perempuan yang memiliki kekuatan dan keberanian, kemampuan perempuan dalam menentukan nasibnya, perempuan yang mandiri secara ekonomi, dan perempuan yang memiliki kecerdasan.

scholarly journals NOVEL “ORANG-ORANG PROYEK”: SEJARAH ORDE BARU

TELAGA BAHASA ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ramis Rauf
Keyword(s):  
Set Theory ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
New Order ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Alain Badiou ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject

This study wants to reveal the truth procedures in Ahmad Tohari's novel Orang-Orang Proyek, as a part of an event and a factor in the presence of a new subject. This research would answer the problem: how was the subjectification of Ahmad Tohari in Orang-Orang Proyek novel as truth procedures? This study used the set theory by Alain Badiou. The set theory explained that within a set there were members of "Existing" or Being and events as "Plural" members.  The results proved that the subjectivity between Tohari and New Order events produced literary works: Orang-Orang Proyek. This happened because there was a positive relationship between the author and the event as well as on the naming of the event. Not only as of the subject but also do a fidelity to what he believed to be a truth. The truth procedures or the void—originating from the New Order event—was in the history of the making of a bridge in a village in Java island, Indonesia during the New Order period that filled with corruption, collusion, and nepotism. Tohari then embodied it in his novel. By the presences of the novel, we could know the category of Tohari's presentation as a new subject such as faithful, reactive, and obscure.

scholarly journals ANGUISH IN ALEXANDER DUMAS’ NOVEL THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 217-224
Author(s):  
Hidayati Hidayati ◽  
Arifuddin Arifuddin ◽  
Zainab M Z. ◽  
Aflina Aflina
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Sociology Of Literature ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Literary Research ◽  
Research Guidelines ◽  
French Writer ◽  
The Subject

The research is conducted based on the novel The Count of Monte Cristo, written by a French writer Alexander Dumas. The focus goes to anguish experienced by the protagonist of the novel, Edmond Dante, a young and handsome sailor with a brilliant prospects in career making him plunged into life of anguish. He is arrested for no reason, sent to jail with inhuman treatment. Descriptive qualitative method is applied to reveal that literary works are mirrors of all the occurrences in society. This is in line with the sociology of literature also implemented here as the approach to further analysis of the subject matters having three aspects to be used as a literary research guidelines: social contexts of the author, already showed by the author, literature as the reflection of society, revealed through the text tending to social reality and functions of literature as entertainer or remodel of society, exposed through the responses of the readers. The results show that the novel contains anguish subdivided into Non-procedural Arrest and Inhuman Imprisonment covering the whole study.

scholarly journals Bernard Cohen’s Snowdome: somewhere in a postmodern time

2007 ◽  
pp. 185
Author(s):  
Andrés Romero Jódar
Keyword(s):  
Space Dimension ◽  
World Order ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Time Space ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Near Future ◽  
The City

Occidental societies, according to certain visions of a postmodern future as reflected in literature and arts, are heading towards a dystopian decadent world order. It is inside this perspective that I place the following essay with the aim to analyse the representation of Postmodernism and Postmodernity in Bernard Cohen’s experimental work, Snowdome. This novel can be conceived as a complex portrayal of contemporary existence and life in the city. By means of three different narrations and two stories separated by the unstable boundary of time, Cohen depicts contemporary Sidney from a nightmarish present of noise that leads to the complete isolation of the subject in a near future. The novel emphasises the multiplicity of information in contemporary society and the way in which that information becomes a constant noise flooding the city. The individual is unable to grasp a bit of that “pure reality” outside the simulacrum offered by the media and by the terrifying museum. Sidney and Australia become, in Cohen’s work, a prolongation of contemporary North-American invasive culture, based on the power of the TV screen and the falsehood of simulacrum, whereas individuals are plunged into a new time-space dimension which is placed somewhere in a postmodern time.

scholarly journals Kritik Sastra Ekologis terhadap Novel-novel Terbaru Indonesia

GERAM ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-89
Author(s):  
Noni Andriyani ◽  
Wilda Srihastuty Handayani Piliang
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Ecological Literature ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Natural Situation ◽  
The Universe

Environmental literary works appear as a form of literary sensitivity to society and the environment which has specific environmental tendencies. Studies using the theory of ecological literature began in around 2008 and above with a very limited number. Therefore, the development of studies of literary works with this theory is very necessary. The creation of public opinion about the importance of protecting the environment to reduce the impact of global warming is very necessary. Later, through several novels, authors have done it. However, not all messages in the novel are clearly conveyed so that they still need ecological literary criticism to understand them. Based on this, the problem raised in this study is "What is the ecological literary criticism of Indonesia's latest novels?". Data collection and data analysis is done by descriptive and content analysis methods. Data are classified and analyzed with ecological literary concepts according to Garrard including (1) pollution; (2) wilderness; (3) disaster; (4) housing / residence; (5) animals; and (6) earth. The research findings and discussion show that Indonesia's latest novels are friendly with their environment, want to describe as much detail as possible about the universe, worship nature, and are always interested in natural changes. Ecological literary concepts are contained in Indonesia's latest novels to describe the natural situation as well as to criticize human treatment of nature. Indonesia's latest novels teach that an attitude of compassion for nature gives rise to desire and behavior to protect and preserve nature as well as possible.

scholarly journals AN ANALYSIS OF ROMANTIC ASPECT AS PORTRAYED IN ‘THE REVOLT IN PARADISE” BY K’TUT TANTRI

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 73
Author(s):  
Shokhikhatul Khasanah
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
The Past ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

This study was aimed to analyze the aspects of Romanticism manifested in the novel “The Revolt in Paradise” and behavior of character reflects Romanticism in “The Revolt in Paradise”. This study was based on the descriptive-qualitative research since the findings were going to be presented in a descriptive form. The data to be analyzed are gathered from two sources. The primary source is the novel itself; The Revolt in Paradise and the secondary sources includes many appropriate documents in the form of literary works, previous thesis, biography, theories and literary criticism, dictionaries and etc. Related to the instrument, the researcher employed herself as the human instrument. The data were analyzed through underlying and labeling. The result of the study found that there four aspects of Romanticism manifested in the novel; The Revolt in Paradise, they were: the love of nature, the memories of the past, the horror /gothic setting and the emotion; included; love, anger and hatred. This study also found that The Revolt in Paradise gave the vivid depiction of the Nationalism as the major behavior reflects Romanticism.

scholarly journals Το νεοελληνικό διήγημα την περίοδο του μεσοπολέμου (1918-1940)

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Αθηνά Κορούλη
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Interwar Period ◽  
Short Story ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Canon ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Modern Greek ◽  
Critical Commentary ◽  
The Impact

The shift of the short story from the center to the periphery of the Modern Greek literary canon is part of the complex literary and cultural revisions that occurred in Greece during the Interwar years. The thesis, based on the theoretical, historical and critical approach of the study material (literary works, critical essays, articles and literary reviews), explores the following issues: the context of the “short story - novel” juxtaposition, the problems and the intentions that were related to the hierarchical downgrading of the short story, the critical opinions on short story poetics, the impact that the broader intellectual and literary pursuits of the period had on the Greek short story, those features that the literary criticism of the period perceived and commented on as a manifestation of change in the field of the Greek short story; furthermore, literary works that follow the directions recognized as signs of the renewal of the genre poetics are examined. With regard to the last issue, it should be noted that in parallel with the recurrent severe criticism of the short story and the turn towards the novel, there were signs that the Modern Greek short story of the Interwar period had also made a turn whose direction can be detected through a new critical commentary that was being frequently repeated, describing features of an interesting thematic and formal renewal that was recognized as the “new impetus” of the genre.

scholarly journals KRITIK ARAFAT NUR TERHADAP TATANAN SIMBOLIK DAN SUBJEK DALAM NOVEL BURUNG TERBANG DI KELAM MALAM

Hasta Wiyata ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 148-171
Author(s):  
Fitri Tiara Merdika ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Symbolic Order ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Analytical Methodology ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
The Real ◽  
Slavoj Žižek ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Ideological Fantasy ◽  
Opening Up

In the creation of literary works, either consciously or unconsciously the author will always insert his ideology. The insertion of the ideology can be seen from the criticisms delivered by the author. Literary works are a medium for the author to convey a critique of the reality that occurs, be it religious, social, cultural, political and other criticisms. But that becomes interesting when the author tries to open up an unconscious reality, opening up the decay of a system of power that will eventually become cynicism and submit to an ideological order. In this study, Arafat Nur's novel Burung Terbang di Kelam Malam was chosen to prove this ideological fantasy. The problem contained in this study is (1) What is the symbolic order of acehnese people in the novel Burung Terbang di Kelam Malam? (2) What is Arafat Nur's criticism of the subject (Acehnese) in the novel Burung Terbang di Kelam Malam? To answer that question, the theory used was an authentic subject and ideological fantasy introduced by Slavoj Zizek and analyzed with descriptive analytical methodology. The results of this study prove that, firstly, the symbolic order (Islamic Sharia as the identity of Aceh) failed to form a radical subject. Although the subject has relinquished the symbolic order that shackled him all along, he remains returning to the new symbolic order. The subjects who are still in power of the Big Other will never escape from the order that subjected them. The subject will not be able to reach the Real, because they cannot discuss it so the subject desires to fulfill Che Vuoi's call?, unconsciously the subject commits ideological fantasies. Second, the subject of fantasizing the ideology of Islamism (Islamic sharia) that desires the achievement of spirituality instead leads it to capitalism. Not just the subject (the character in the novel). Arafat Nur as an author was also caught up in capitalism so his attempts to go radical ended in failure.

The Cry of the Lost Homeland: The Idea of Turkism in Yılmaz Gürbüz's Novel of Balkan Acısı

Turkology ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (107) ◽  
pp. 57-74
Author(s):  
Kamil PARIN
Keyword(s):  
Ottoman Empire ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
The Balkans ◽  
Balkan Wars ◽  
The Subject

With the Ottoman-Russian War of 1877-1878, also known as the 93 War, the Ottoman Empire began to lose its power in the Balkans and subsequently to lose territory. Then, with the Tripoli and Balkan Wars, Rumelia was almost completely lost, and the Balkan nations declared their independence. During the Balkan Wars, the Turks, so to speak, experienced national debacle and depression, and were exposed to intense oppression and persecution. These negativities left deep wounds in the memory of the Turkish nation and caused trauma. The suffering in question has also been the subject of many literary works. One of these works is the novel of Balkan Acısı (Balkan Misery). In the novel, the depression caused by the painful loss of the Balkans, the traces of the debacle and the persecutions which were suffered have clearly found their place. However, the ideas of Ottomanism, Islamism, Turkism - especially Turkism - that emerged alongside modernization in order to save the Ottoman Empire from its situation and return it to its old days, were reflected in the novel. In the novel of Balkan Acısı, a way similar to the course of these currents of thought in the Ottoman Empire was followed, and it was emphasized that Turkism was the only solution when Ottomanism and Islamism failed. In this study, the above-mentioned issues are discussed and reflections on Turkism, which constitutes the thought ground of the novel, are revealed.

scholarly journals To the problem of intertextuality of “Fandorin corpus” by B. Akunin “Planet Water” and “Froth on the Daydream” by Boris Vian

Litera ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 25-32
Author(s):  
Kamilla Fezameddinovna Gereikhanova ◽  
Oksana Vasilevna Afanaseva
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
French Literature ◽  
Primary Source ◽  
Japanese Literature ◽  
Russian Literature ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Boris Vian ◽  
Intertextual Dialogue

This article is dedicated to the questions of intertextual dialogue in modern Russian literature on the example of allusions to the novel “Froth on the Daydream” by Boris Vian in the novel “Planet Water” by B. Akunin. The object of this research is the game with audience used by B. Akunin, which allows broadening the context of perception of the novel through intertextual links. The subject of this research is the forms and ways of manifestation of intertextual dialogue of the two works – “Planet Water” and “Froth on the Daydream”, as well as their interaction through the literary works of antiquity and Japanese legends. The authors examine the references to B. Vian’s novel, describing their role in text of the narrative. The article employs comparative, contextual,l and hermeneutical analysis. The interaction of the corpus of texts about Fandorin with the works of Russian, English and Japanese literature is subject to detailed analysis. The texts of B. Akunin about Erast Fandorin abound with various references to the Russian and foreign literary works. The scientific novelty is define by the fact that this article is first to draw parallels with the French literature. The article determines and substabtiates intertextual links of “Planet Water” with “Froth on the Daydream”, which manifest through the key images and onomastic system of the novel. These links should attributed to hidden, encrypted intertext, cryptotext; in order to grasp such text, the reader must be familiar with the primary source. The presence of intertextual dialogue broadens the context of perception of the detective story and associate it with the genre of dystopia and parody.

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