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Widows and Marriage Institutions in Short Story “Perempuan Pesisir” Ramis Rauf; Afriani Ulya; Risma Santi Rauf; Eko Harianto
AL LUGHAWIYAAT Vol 1, No 2 (2020): December
Publisher : IAIN KENDARI

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The main problem of this paper focused on a female major character, namely Laila who was portrayed as a weak woman that faithfully waited for her husband to return home after sailing. This paper tried to reveal how the form of misogyny towards Laila's character through a feminism perspective. The status of a widow, the husband's debt, and her baby's child were a burden of her life that must be borne by herself. The status that she carried became the trigger for the misogynistic practices. This “Perempuan Pesisir” short story explained the reality of how the domestication motives of women in Southeast Sulawesi had become global-local issues, starting from our immediate environment, the environment in the capacity of the larger community, to the wider community at the level of the state and nations. Such a topic could have just emerged in the past few decades. However, it had been tormenting women centuries ago. Thus, this short story could be a source of reference or teaching material for the initial knowledge of feminism to the people on a patriarchal basis that was deeply rooted in Southeast Sulawesi.
The Study of Derrida’s Deconstruction in the Short Story “Kembang Dewaretna” by Yanusa Nugroho Rauf, Ramis; Ulya, Afriani
AL LUGHAWIYAAT Vol. 6 No. 1 (2025): April
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This paper reveals the main problem regarding the author's efforts in presenting the reversal of the hierarchy of the character Danaraja who experiences defeat in the short story "Kembang Dewaretna". To answer this problem, this study uses Jacques Derrida's deconstruction theory. Deconstruction is a theory in literary research that rejects the view that language has a definite, certain, and constant meaning as in the classical structuralist view. This rejection occurs because of the separation of space between the signifier and the signified which is considered absolute in the form of traces behind the traces. The method used in this study is deconstruction. This method explains that deconstructing a discourse or literary text shows the collapse of the underlying philosophy or is in hierarchical opposition (binary opposition) to something that is its basis through the identification of operational forms of rhetoric in the text. The results of the study reveal that deconstruction in the short story "Kembang Dewaratna" is a reversal of the hierarchy between the characters Rahwana and Danaraja. The character Rahwana is always narrated as the winner in every battle, while Danaraja is a character who always experiences defeat. In the short story "Kembang Dewaretna", the reversal of the hierarchy is shown by showing the victory of the figure of Danaraja in the fight against Rahwana. Thus, it is concluded that the form of Danaraja's victory is a deconstruction of the elimination of the figure of Rahwana as the center who always appears with his victory.