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Rarastesa, Zita
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The Sense of Loss in Jean Rhy’s Voyage in The Dark: The Absence of Mother and Imagined Black Identity Rarastesa, Zita
Paradigma: Jurnal Kajian Budaya Vol. 5, No. 2
Publisher : UI Scholars Hub

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The sense of loss of a mother leads Anna Morgan to her imagined black identity. Being a Creole from Dominica, Morgan is alienated both in her home country and in London. Du Bois’s notion of double consciousness substantiates Morgan’s sense of alienation. The racial issue here is not only socially constructed, but it is also personally constructed, as Morgan does not consider England as her homeland although she is as white as English people. people. The character is struggling from identity conflict, as she internalizes the impact of the British colonialization to the black people in Dominica. She feels more black than white because of the image of blackness that she creates from the image of her mother and black women in general, as nurturing, warm and domestic. In addition to that, the geographic location contributes to Morgan’s sense of loss.
Feeling the Pain Down Memory Lane: On-going Trauma in Octavia E. Buttler’s Kindred Rarastesa, Zita
Humanus Vol 22, No 2 (2023)
Publisher : Pusat Kajian Humaniora FBS Universitas Negeri Padang

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.24036/humanus.v22i2.124914

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This paper attempts to discuss the ongoing Trauma of slavery as the collective Trauma for African American people in the US. It not only investigates the memory of Trauma experienced by the main character, Dana, in the novel Kindred but also describes how the author recalls the memory of the traumatic event and expresses it in the novel through a series of events the main character encountered. Although the traumatic event itself has long gone in the past, the memory of it still haunts the African American people through what Dana is going through. The narrative technique Butler uses in the novel is intriguing that she tells the story as some time machine where the main character can go back and forth from the setting of time, the 1970s, to the 19th-century slavery era. Furthermore, Dana experienced a physical injury that was incomprehensible for people in the 1970s to see as a result of the event that happened in the 19th-century slavery era. This can be seen as a reflection of the way African American people feel about slavery and the aftermath of it in the present. The traumatic event has passed, but the pain stays the same because ongoing racism against African American people remains.  
Photographs and Personal Memory in Ana Menendez’s Loving Che Rarastesa, Zita; Susilorini, Susilorini; Kusumo Habsari, Sri; Mugijatna, Mugijatna; Kusdianto, Yuyun
Journal of Social Science Vol. 5 No. 6 (2024): Journal of Social Science
Publisher : Syntax Corporation Indonesia

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This paper points out the issues of personal history versus mainstream/official history, the changing meaning of photographs, the concept of truth/fact, and personal identity in Ana Menendez’s novel Loving Che. The unnamed main character in this novel tries to construct her identity based on her mother's diary and letters as well as the photographs her mother sent to her. She and her mother, Teresa de La Landre, were separated due to a political dispute in Cuba. Teresa managed to get her father and baby out of Cuba and fled to Miami. When Teresa's father arrived in Miami, only then did he realize that Teresa did not go with them to Miami. She stayed in Cuba to wait for her lover, as he told his granddaughter. The main character wondered if she was Che Guevara's daughter, as implied in Teresa's letters and diary. By using Roland Barthes' Semiotic theory and feminist approach, this paper investigates how a photograph can be given different meanings when it is given a different context or background story. Furthermore, how the image of the revolutionist Che Guevara changes from the image based on the fact we read from mainstream history books into the melancholic and romantic image of the same man in the novel when it was given a more personal approach toward the man in the photograph
Co-Authors Kusdianto, Yuyun Kusumo Habsari, Sri Mugijatna Mugijatna Susilorini Susilorini, Susilorini