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RACE, RELIGION, AND THE MORAL OF WHITENESS: A POSTCOLONIAL READING OF NADINE GORDIMER’S COUNTRY LOVERS Dian Nurrachman; Dody S. Truna; Ilim Abdul Halim; Mohammad Ziaul Haq
Saksama: Jurnal Sastra Vol. 4 No. 2 (2025): Saksama
Publisher : Fakultas Adab dan Humaniora UIN Sunan Gunung Djati Bandung

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15575/sksm.v4i2.52685

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This article examines Nadine Gordimer’s Country Lovers through an integrated framework drawn from postcolonial criticism, critical race theory, and the genealogy of religion. It argues that Gordimer’s short story offers a concentrated narrative archive of how race and religion function as co-constitutive systems of colonial power. Using a mimetic method of literary criticism, the study treats the narrative as a representational site where social, legal, and moral structures of apartheid South Africa are reproduced and contested. The analysis is grounded in the contemporary understanding of race as a sociohistorical construct whose apparent naturalness conceals political and institutional production. The study also draws on Talal Asad’s formulation of religion as a historically contingent category shaped by European intellectual and colonial histories, as well as Malory Nye’s and Theodore Vial’s arguments that race and religion are inseparable “conjoined twins” of modernity. Within this theoretical constellation, Country Lovers emerges as a text that discloses how Christian-inflected moral orders and secular legal practices jointly uphold racial hierarchies. Close readings of key narrative scenes—Paulus and Thebedi’s secret encounters, the description of the mixed-race infant, the court proceedings, and Thebedi’s coerced silence—demonstrate the ways in which whiteness operates as moral purity while blackness is aligned with sin, transgression, and disposability. By analyzing these narrative elements as mimetic representations of structural power, the article argues that Gordimer’s work illuminates the afterlives of colonial religio-racial discourse in modernity. Ultimately, the study contends that Country Lovers not only critiques apartheid but also exposes the deeper moral and epistemic architectures through which colonialism continues to shape postcolonial consciousness. The article contributes to broader scholarly conversations about decolonization by foregrounding literature as a site where racialized religious imaginaries are produced, contested, and potentially transformed.
Reclaiming Female Agency through Écriture Féminine in Carol Ann Duffy’s The World’s Wife Fauziah Rahmalia, Salma; Assiddiqi, Hasbi; Nurrachman, Dian
Jurnal Ragam Pengabdian Vol. 3 No. 2 (2026): Mei-Agustus, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Multidisciplinary Perspectiv
Publisher : Lembaga Teewan Journal Solutions

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.62710/fwczmg35

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This study examines the textual strategies used to reclaim female agency in Carol Ann Duffy’s poetry collection “The World’s Wife” through Hélène Cixous’s framework of écriture féminine. While past research heavily generalizes historical or mythological adaptations, this paper addresses a critical gap by analyzing the exact linguistic subversion and structural reconstruction of the female body and voice. Applying a mimetic approach and qualitative close reading, this study analyzes three specific poems: "Little Red Cap," "Queen Kong," and "Mrs Rip Van Winkle." The findings show that female liberation functions as a continuous, structured journey: developing from the deconstruction of internal psychological and spatial fears in "Little Red Cap," transitioning into a radical subversion of the masculine gaze through humor and desire in "Queen Kong," and culminating in complete somatic independence and autonomous creative expression in "Mrs Rip Van Winkle." Ultimately, this study demonstrates that Duffy’s revisions operate beyond simple thematic commentary; they serve as a radical practice of écriture féminine that successfully weaponizes aesthetic structures to destroy traditional patriarchal binary systems in literature.
The Representation of Women as the Other in 21st Century English Songs Safira, Rahma; Sudjatnika, Tenny; Nurrachman, Dian
Jurnal Ragam Pengabdian Vol. 3 No. 2 (2026): Mei-Agustus, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Multidisciplinary Perspectiv
Publisher : Lembaga Teewan Journal Solutions

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.62710/gmp1av13

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This study examines the representation of women as "the Other" in 21st-century English popular music through the lyrical narratives of Lily Allen, Pink, Paris Paloma, Halsey, and Taylor Swift. Employing a qualitative descriptive method rooted in textual and feminist literary analysis, the research utilizes Simone de Beauvoir's existentialist feminism and a mimetic approach to deconstruct how female subjectivity, immanence, and patriarchal constraints are textually constructed. The analysis focuses on selected tracks, including Stupid Girls, Hard Out Here, The Man, Labor, and Nightmare. The findings reveal that the concept of "the Other" remains deeply entrenched in contemporary popular culture, operating through three distinct forms: confinement to domestic immanence, performative hyper-femininity, and structural double standards in the professional sphere. These songs expose how modern women are still systematically reduced to supportive roles, objectified based on physical appearance, and denied equal authority despite formal emancipation. However, this study also highlights that these musical narratives do not merely reproduce traditional gender hierarchies. By employing irony, visceral resistance, and non-compliant identities, the lyrics function as critical cultural spaces for female agency, articulating resistance against patriarchal structures and reclaiming autonomous subjectivity.
Persuasive discourse through lexical choices used by experts in The Social Dilemma (2020) Risma Fadilla; Cipto Wardoyo; Dian Nurrachman
EduLite: Journal of English Education, Literature and Culture Vol 11, No 2 (2026): August 2026
Publisher : Universitas Islam Sultan Agung

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.30659/e.11.2.597-616

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This study investigated how expert speakers in The Social Dilemma (2020) constructed persuasive discourse through lexical choices. It aimed to identify the lexical strategies that realized Aristotle’s rhetorical appeals (ethos, pathos, and logos) and to classify them using Kuna (2018) seven persuasive categories. A convergent mixed-methods design integrated corpus-assisted discourse analysis with qualitative rhetorical interpretation. Expert utterances were extracted from the documentary transcripts and processed with Sketch Engine to identify and quantify recurring lexical items. The findings showed that Certainty and Emotional Involvement were the most prominent categories. Lexical items such as know, predict, you, we, manipulate, control, and existential combined epistemic authority, personal address, and threat framing to convert abstract technological processes into immediate social risks. General Positive Value terms were frequently recontextualized ironically, whereas Testedness and Authenticity/Credibility strengthened evidence-based and insider claims. These patterns demonstrate that persuasion in the documentary emerged from the interaction of lexical frequency, discourse context, and rhetorical function rather than from isolated words. Future researchers should compare several technology documentaries and integrate verbal, visual, and auditory modes to test the transferability of these lexical patterns.
Promoting literature to build college students Dian Nurrachman
Journal on English as a Foreign Language Vol 1 No 1 (2011): JEFL
Publisher : Universitas Islam Negeri Palangka Raya, Indonesia

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.23971/jefl.v1i1.23

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The relationship of classroom to the outside world is a reciprocal one, meaning that classrooms are part of the world in which socio-politics is included. The students become successful literary readers as well as critical thinkers who have socio-political awareness if the classroom conducts an ‘extensive reading