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Dark Fantasy in Neil Gaiman's Coraline: An Analysis of Formulaic Structure Tarisa Badzlin Amajida; Setiawan, Ikwan; Wahyuningsih, Indah
Lakon : Jurnal Kajian Sastra dan Budaya Vol. 14 No. 1 (2025): JURNAL LAKON
Publisher : Universitas Airlangga

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.20473/lakon.v14i1.68462

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In the early 21st century, technology paranoia, a negative aspect of technological growth, was prevalent, particularly in the United Kingdom. This social problem coincided with an increase in popular culture toward the consumption of fantasy fiction, with the dark fantasy subgenre being revived by Neil Gaiman's Coraline. This study explores Coraline through the lens of John G. Cawelti’s formula theory to reveal the strategies resulting in its significant societal appeal. This study analyzes the novella's intrinsic elements—plot, characters and characterizations, setting, and illustrations—to identify Coraline as a dark fantasy that effectively combines horror and fantasy formulas. The use of dark fantasy aligns with Cawelti's four hypotheses, functioning as a cultural reflection, cultural solution, cultural boundaries, and cultural innovation that addresses technology paranoia.
Poskolonialitas Jawa dalam Campursari: Dari Era Orde Baru hingga Reformasi Setiawan, Ikwan; Tallapessy, Albert; Subaharianto, Andang
PANGGUNG Vol 30 No 2 (2020): Identitas Sosial Budaya dan Ekonomi Kreatif
Publisher : LP2M ISBI Bandung

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.26742/panggung.v30i2.948

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Artikel ini bertujuan menjelaskan dan mengkritisi konstruksi lokalitas Jawa pascakolonial dalam lagu campursari dari masa Orde Baru hingga Reformasi. Menggunakan pembacaan tekstual-kontekstual dengan perspektif poskololonial, kami akan menganalisis beberapa lagu campursari karya Nartosabdo, Manthous, dan Didi Kempot untuk mengungkap poskolonialitas Jawa dalam moda transformatif. Analisis tekstual akan menghasilkan wacana-wacana partikular lokalitas yang berhubungan dengan beberapa isu seperti nilai dan praktik kultural baru serta hubungan lelaki-perempuan di tengah-tengah modernitas dari masing-masing era. Kami, kemudian, akan memberikan penekanan yang lebih kritis terhadap wacana-wacana tersebut dengan menghubungkan mereka dengan kondisi kontekstual yang di dalamnya nilai dan praktik modern mulai mempengaruhi orang-orang Jawa. Kajian ini menunjukkan bahwa lagu-lagu campursari merepresentasikan transformasi lokalitas yang di dalamnya pencipta lagu membawa pandangan mereka terhadap perubahan kehidupan kultural dengan cara menegosiasikan budaya Jawa dengan paradigma yang lentur. Hal itu berarti pencipta lagu secara sadar merepresentasikan budaya lokal yang sudah berdialog dengan budaya modern serta sebagai usaha untuk menegosiasikan dan mentransformasi lokalitas ke-Jawa-an sekaligus sebagai strategi untuk mempopulerkan dan memasarkan campursari.
Analisis Semiotika Roland Barthes: Visualisasi Kelas Sosial dalam Sinematografi Film The Handmaiden (2016) Agustin, Yuli Ayu; Setiawan, Ikwan; Sukmawati, Ni Luh Ayu
ROLLING Vol. 8 No. 1 (2025): ROLLING Volume 8 Nomor 1 Tahun 2025
Publisher : Universitas Jember

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.19184/rolling.v8i1.53697

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The Handmaiden is an exotic-thriller film by Park Chan-wook which tells the story of Korean people who disguise themselves to deceive Japanese nobles. In the storyline regarding the fraud, there is a storyline that involves the issue of social class being an important thing in it. A social class is a group of people divided based on education, occupation, property ownership, and lifestyle. The purpose of this research is to show how social class is visualized in The Handmaiden film. The type of research used is qualitative research using Roland Barthes semiotic analysis method in film cinematography. The research focuses on how upper and lower social classes are visualized. The results show that the visualization of social classes is divided into 3 (three) categories. The first is visualisation of the upper social class who have power and lifestyle through clothing. Second, the visualisation of the lower social class that is highlighted very small in cinematography so that it represent the character as powerless or weak. Third, the representation of the lower social class that fights back by destroying the barrier between classes to save one of the upper-class characters.
Analysis of Body Shaming Construction on Women in the Film "Imperfect” Mustafa, Moch. Turdi; Sukarno, Sukarno; Setiawan, Ikwan
IJELTAL (Indonesian Journal of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics) Vol 9, No 2 (2024): Indonesian Journal of English Language Teaching and Applied Linguistics
Publisher : Universitas Islam Negeri Sultan Aji Muhammad Idris Samarinda

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.21093/ijeltal.v9i2.1712

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The portrayal of body shaming against women in films is a social critique of the act of body shaming. Hence, the study of body shaming in films is intriguing for future investigation. The objective of this research is to uncover the portrayal of body shaming towards women in films. The research data comprised of words and phrases that encompassed body shaming and were examined utilizing Norman Fairclough's Critical Discourse Analysis approach. The data was acquired from the movie Imperfect: Karir, Cinta & Timbangan. This study is also classified as critical-qualitative research. The research findings indicate that the film “Imperfect: Karir, Cinta & Timbangan” portrays three types of body shaming, which include comparing, commenting, and insulating individuals based on their physical appearance. Furthermore, the film's production background is influenced by the film development genre in Indonesia, and the producer's background as a comedian aligns with the genre of the film. In addition, this also highlights that the film production is also considered to have some motives to depict body shaming in the film, including the commercial motive, social culture, and ideology to struggle.
‘Mencairnya’ Kuasa: Sastra, Subjektivitas Cair, dan Resistensi terhadap Kuasa Budaya dan Negara dalam Perspektif Poskolonial Ikwan Setiawan
JENTERA: Jurnal Kajian Sastra Vol 1, No 1 (2012): Jurnal Jentera
Publisher : Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.26499/jentera.v1i1.17

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Artikel ini, dengan orientasi konseptual-teoretis dan metodologis, akan membahas cairnya kuasa budaya dan negara dalam struktur naratif sastra, dengan menggunakan pendekatan poskolonial. Narasi sastra bisa diposisikan sebagai produk representasi yang menghadirkan subjektivitas cair, berupa tokoh naratif dan wacana partikular, terkait permasalahan sosial-budaya, khususnya hibriditas kultural. Kehadiran modernitas dan berlangsungnya praktik budaya tradisional dalam masyarakat pascakolonial menyebabkan timbul permasalahan tersebut. Hasil kajian ini menunjukkan bahwa subjektivitas cair, di satu sisi, bisa memunculkan wacana emansipasi untuk memberdayakan masyarakat lokal dan, di sisi lain, bisa memunculkan resistensi terhadap kuasa berbasis budaya tersebut. Oposisi biner antara Barat dan Timur menjadi sangat cair, karena subjek poskolonial bisa menggunakan pemikiran modern untuk mendekonstruksi keutuhan modernitas maupun keutuhan budaya tradisional. Namun, ketika negara menerapkan neoliberalisme, subjektivitas cair dan hibriditas kultural perlu ditafsir-ulang. Kuasa budaya tradisi dan negara akan mendapatkan pemaknaan-baru dan resistensi; karena prinsip kebebasan individual dalam hukum pasar menuntut kehadiran minimum kedua entitas tersebut. Kondisi itu memunculkan peluang untuk mengkritisi dan memodifikasi kajian poskolonial.Kata kunci: struktur naratif, subjektivitas cair, resistensi, kajian poskolonial, neoliberalisme
CULTURAL HYBRIDITY AND ITS COMPLEXITY IN ESMERALDA SANTIAGO’S ALMOST A WOMAN IKWAN SETIAWAN
JENTERA: Jurnal Kajian Sastra Vol 9, No 2 (2020): Jentera: Jurnal Kajian Sastra
Publisher : Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.26499/jentera.v9i2.2495

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Abstrak. Tulisan ini mendiskusikan hibriditas dalam novel Almost A Woman karya Esmeralda Santiago. Novel ini menceritakan permasalahan kultural yang dialami Negi, tokoh utama, sebagai imigran Puerto Rico di New York, di mana ia harus mengapropriasi budaya Amerika agar bisa diterima oleh masyarakat induk. Untuk membahas permasalahan tersebut, kami akan menggunakan teori poskolonial Bhabha. Analisis tekstual digunakan untuk menjelaskan data terpilih dengan cara pandang poskolonial tanpa mengabaikan keterkaitan kontekstualnya dengan dinamika imigrasi dan diaspora. Hasil kajian ini menunjukkan bahwa tokoh utama harus menjalankan strategi kultural berupa mimikri dan hibriditas agar bisa diterima di masyarakat induk dan bisa mendukung impian modernnya. Meskipun menikmati budaya Amerika secara apropriatif, ia masih berusaha untuk tidak melupakan budaya Puerto Rico. Dengan strategi ini subjek diasporik bisa menegosiasikan kepentingannya di tengah-tengah masyarakat induk dan kuasa budaya dominan, tanpa harus meninggalkan sepenuhnya budaya Puerto Rico.   Abstract. This paper discusses hybridity in Esmeralda Santiago’s Almost A Woman. This novel tells about cultural problems experienced by Negi, the main character, as a Puerto Rican immigrant in New York, where she must appropriate American cultures in order to be accepted by the host community. To discuss this problem, we will apply Bhabha's postcolonial theory. Textual analysis is used to explain selected data from a postcolonial perspective without ignoring its contextual relationship with the dynamics of immigration and diaspora. The results of this study show that the main character must carry out a cultural strategy in the form of mimicry and hybridity in order to be accepted in the parent community and be able to support his modern dreams. Despite enjoying appropriately American culture, she still tries not to forget Puerto Rican cultures. With this strategy the diasporic subject can negotiate its interests in the midst of the host society and the dominant cultural power, without having to completely abandon Puerto Rican culture.
EKSNOMINASI POLITIK DALAM NARASI: KONSEPTUALISASI PEMIKIRAN MITOLOGIS ROLAND BARTHES DAN IMPLIKASI METODOLOGISNYA DALAM KAJIAN SASTRA Ikwan Setiawan
JENTERA: Jurnal Kajian Sastra Vol 3, No 1 (2014): Jurnal Jentera
Publisher : Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.26499/jentera.v3i1.430

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This article deals with Roland Barthes’ mythological thinking and its methodological implication in literary studies. Its basic thinking is that in various modes of representation exist the dynamics of mythical signification using denotative signification as its basic and aims to address particular message to readers or viewers. Such signification intertwines with the complexity of discourses, histories, knowledge, and problems in the real life. Its final goal is to depoliticize and ex-nominates making something nameless dominant political interest in narrative naturally. Barthes also conceptualizes an idea on second myth that uses (the first) myth as its basis of signifying process to subvert the dominant class’ political interest. For explaining the contributions of these two mythological perspectives in literary studies, I give conceptualize method of analysis using both of them. As concluding remarks, I position Barthes’ mythological thinking as a theoretical framework which can avoid literary studies from over intervention of outside-literary factors political economy, general theories, etc. that make the studies seem losing their narrative base. Because Barthes’ perspective emphasizes on reading of narrative dynamics without negating exploration of discursive richness in signifying process, naturalization of ideological discourses, and ex-nomination of particular political interest.AbstrakTulisan ini membahas pemikiran mitologis Roland Barthes serta implikasi metodologisnya dalam kajian sastra. Inti dari pemikirannya adalah bahwa dalam beragam moda representasi berlangsung dinamika penandaan mitis yang menggunakan penandaan denotatif sebagai basisnya dan bertujuan menyampaikan pesan tertentu kepada pembaca ataupun penonton. Penandaan tersebut berjalin-kelindan dengan kompleksitas wacana, sejarah, pengetahuan, dan permasalahan dalam kehidupan nyata. Tujuan akhirnya adalah untuk mendepolitisasi dan mengeksnominasi menjadikan sesuatu tak bernama kepentingan politik dominan dalam narasi secara alamiah. Barthes juga mengkonseptualisasikan gagasan tentang mitos kedua yang menggunakan mitos (pertama) sebagai basis proses penandaan untuk mensubversi kepentingan politik kelas dominan. Untuk menjelaskan implikasi metodologis kedua perspektif mitologis tersebut dalam kajian sastra, saya mengkonseptuliasikan metode analisis dengan menggunakan keduanya. Sebagai simpulan, saya memosisikan pemikiran mitologis Barthes sebagai kerangka teoretis yang bisa menghindarkan kajian sastra dari intervensi berlebihan dari faktor-faktor di luar sastra faktor ekonomi-politik, teori-teori umum, dan lain-lain yang menjadikan kajian tersebut tampak kehilangan pijakan naratif. Karena perspektif Barthes menekankan kepada pembacaan dinamika naratif dalam kerangka penandaan tanpa mengabaikan eksplorasi kekayaan diskursif dalam proses penandaan, naturalisasi wacana ideologis, dan eks-nominasi kepentingan politik partikular. 
Class Struggle Seen in Ernest Jones’ Three Selected Poems: The Song of The Poor, The Song The Lower Classes, and A Song for People Andi Ahmad Fijai; Hat Pujiati; Ikwan Setiawan
JENTERA: Jurnal Kajian Sastra Vol 11, No 1 (2022): Jentera: Jurnal Kajian Sastra
Publisher : Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.26499/jentera.v11i1.2773

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This article discusses class struggle of the working class through Ernest Jones’ three selected poems: The Song of The Poor, The Song of The Lower Classes, and A Song for People in the Industrial Revolution era in England. Industrial Revolution is a shift in goods production from human power into mechanical power. This research uses Michael Riffaterre’s Semiotics of Poetry theory to find out the meaning and significance of the chosen poems and uses some opinions and history as hypogram to portray the class struggle of the workers in Industrial Revolution era. The result of this research shows that these poems articulate the voices of the working class in struggling to get justice against the ruling class. AbstrakArtikel ini membahas tentang perjuangan kelas pekerja di tiga puisi pilihan karya Ernest Jones: The Song of The Poor, The Song of The Lower Classes, dan A Song for People di era Revolusi Industri di Inggris. Revolusi Industri adalah perubahan cara produksi barang yang awalnya menggunakan tenaga manusia menjadi tenaga mekanik. Penelitian ini menggunakan teori Semiotika Puisi oleh Michael Riffaterre untuk mengetahui meaning (makna) dan significance (arti) puisi yang terpilih dan menggunakan beberapa opini dan sejarah sebagai hipogram untuk menggambarkan perjuangan kelas pekerja di era Revolusi Industri. Hasil penelitian ini mengeksplorasi perjuangan para pekerja di era Revolusi Industri. Jones melalui puisinya mengartikulasikan suara-suara kelas pekerja dalam perjuangannya mendapatkan keadilan melawan kelas pengusa.
THE CONSTRUCTION OF ORIENTALISM IN DAN BROWN’S DIGITAL FORTRESS Ghassani Auliannnisa Widjajati; Ikwan Setiawan; Supiastutik Supiastutik
Haluan Sastra Budaya Vol 6, No 1 (2022)
Publisher : Universitas Sebelas Maret

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.20961/hsb.v6i1.57158

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This article studies orientalism constructed in the novel of Digital Fortress that is written by Dan Brown. Orientalism discourse appears in the literary works through narrative events and conversations of the Western and the Eastern. Ensei Tankado, a Japanese character, will be presented in this study in the lens of Western. The aim is to explore orientalism discourse in the novel to get an understanding of the ideology interest as part of the Western power. Theory of Orientalism by Edward Said is applied in this study. It modifies Foucauldian discourse theory and Gramscian hegemony. The four concept of Orientalism discourse including political power, intellectual power, cultural power and moral power will be used in this study. How the Eastern subject is positioned by the Western in Digital Fortress becomes the focus. Japanese and the United States in the novel can be related to the contextual condition that cultural domination and hegemony still occur between Japan-USA since World War II. Orientalism in the literary works is a new imperialism. The goal of this study is to reveal that the novel brings cultural domination.
Cultural Identity Changes in The Girl with Seven Names: A Critical Analysis of An Immigrant’s Experiences Amelia Ivana Limantra; Ikwan Setiawan; Nurhadianty Rahayu
Language Circle: Journal of Language and Literature Vol. 21 No. 1 (2026): Regular Edition of April 2026
Publisher : Universitas Negeri Semarang

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15294/lc.v20i2.12720

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This study focuses on cultural identity and cultural changes that are experienced by the main character in the memoir The Girl with Seven Names written by Hyeonseo Lee. This study follows Hall's (1996) theory about cultural identity in the process of becoming rather than being. There are three scopes of study in analyzing cultural identity, including: how is the process of cultural identity constructed; the cultural disparities in achieving social status between South Korea and North Korea; and the criticism toward North Korea. Using a textual approach, the data were analyzed after the researchers did a series of close reading. The results reveal the struggle of the main character’s process of identity becoming as an immigrant in surviving the host culture to form a new identity as a North Korean defector. The findings also showed that this memoir was used as a form of criticism toward the North Korean government whose politics and class system restrict its people’s freedom.