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Sweet Resistance: Chocolate, Monopoly, and Social Power in Wonka (2023) Vera Febrianti; M Afifulloh
Loquēla (Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Education) Vol. 4 No. 2 (2026): Loquēla (Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Education): In Progress
Publisher : Smart Edu Center

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.61276/loqula.v4i2.88

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Although Wonka (2023), by Paul King, appears as a colorful family musical, the film presents socio-political issues related to power, monopoly, and resistance. Previous studies on food in film have predominantly focused on aesthetic and representational aspects. This study examines (1) the symbolism of chocolate in Wonka (2023), and (2) how chocolate functions as a medium of social resistance against monopolistic power. Using a qualitative approach and cinematic text analysis, the study applies cinematic gastronomy as the main analytical framework, supported by food semiotics, resistance theory, and cultural capital. Eight purposively selected scenes were analyzed through content, formal, and contextual dimensions. The findings show that chocolate functions as an ambivalent sign: it represents monopoly and institutional control while simultaneously enabling resistance against dominant power. The film also depicts public space as an arena where everyday gastronomic practices challenge established social and economic hierarchies. This study demonstrates the potential of cinematic gastronomy to interpret mainstream popular films as socio-political texts, revealing how food functions not merely as visual ornamentation but as a cultural and political practice of resistance.
Discursive Chaos in Indonesian Facebook Responses to the Iran–Israel Conflict: Media Framing, Affective Polarization, and Epistemic Distrust Zulfikri Betyar Rasuan; Widyasari Widyasari; M Afifulloh; Basri Basri
Journal of General Education and Humanities Vol. 5 No. 4 (2026): August
Publisher : MASI Mandiri Edukasi

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.58421/gehu.v5i4.1955

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This article examines how Indonesian Facebook users responded to media posts about the Iran–Israel conflict and how these responses contributed to the emergence of discursive chaos in digital public space. Existing studies on digital political communication have often examined misinformation, polarization, and platform dynamics separately. Less attention has been given to how media framing, emotional antagonism, and distrust toward information interact simultaneously in comment sections, especially in non-Western contexts. To address this gap, this study employed a qualitative digital discourse approach based on publicly accessible Facebook posts and user comments circulated in Indonesian online spaces. The analysis combined thematic reading and discourse-oriented interpretation to examine how users received, contested, redirected, and emotionally amplified media narratives. The findings show that Facebook comment sections did not function merely as spaces for responding to news, but as arenas of discursive struggle. Users reinterpreted conflict updates through ridicule, moralization, symbolic alignment, and contests of credibility. In several cases, the Iran–Israel conflict was also localized into broader political and ideological grievances, including distrust of mainstream media, anti-Western sentiment, and criticism of international power relations. These patterns indicate that discursive chaos emerged not only from false information, but also from the interaction among media framing, affective polarization, epistemic distrust, and antagonistic participation within the platform environment. This study contributes to digital political communication scholarship by showing that Indonesian responses to international conflict are shaped not only by issue salience, but also by emotionally charged reinterpretation and the weakening of shared epistemic ground
Narrative Transmission and Gender Trauma in Broken Strings by Aurelie Moereman Wiwinda Lestari; M Afifulloh; Diana Anggraeni
Loquēla (Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Education) Vol. 4 No. 2 (2026): Loquēla (Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Education): In Progress
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.61276/loqula.v4i2.82

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Sexual violence against adolescent girls is an ongoing human rights issue. Survivors' memoirs, published digitally, are shaping public discourse on grooming and gender-based violence in Indonesia. However, Aurelie Moeremans's work, Broken Strings: Fragments of a Stolen Youth (2025), has not yet received in-depth, sustained literary analysis. This article examines how gender-based violence is constructed and conveyed through narrative strategies in the memoir. The article focuses on the protagonist’s subordination within heteronormative power relations and the text’s function as an affective medium that facilitates affiliative reader engagement. Combining Judith Butler’s concept of gender performativity and Marianne Hirsch’s concept of postmemory, this study uses a descriptive-interpretive qualitative approach. It also employs a close reading of the memoir and secondary reception materials from Indonesian feminist media. The analysis reveals three interconnected dimensions: the normalization of gender-based compliance and romanticization as mechanisms of coercive control, a transition from silenced to reflective subjectivity, and narrative fragmentation, retrospection, and direct address that transform personal trauma into shared meaning. Conclusion: This memoir serves a dual function: it is both a testimony and a discursive space in which gender-based violence is critically articulated in digital form. Additionally, it fills a gap in academic research on digital memoirs by survivors in Indonesia by combining the Butler-Hirsch framework.