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Happiness, social fantasy, and the Indonesian novel Aprinus Salam; Novi Anoegrajekti; Marisa Santi Dewi
GHANCARAN: Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa dan Sastra Indonesia Vol. 8 No. 1 (2026): In Progress
Publisher : Tadris Bahasa Indonesia, Fakultas Tarbiyah, Institut Agama Islam Negeri Madura

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.19105/ghancaran.v8i1.24498

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Disinclined to discuss “happiness” in its fundamental context. This study investigates why happiness proves challenging to incorporate as a primary subject in literary works. The prominent focus and originality of this study is the role of happiness concerning the social position, characters, and setting within the narrative structure. Six works: Sitti Nurbaya, Salah Asuhan, Belenggu, Ronggeng Dukuh Paruk, Wasripin dan Satinah, and Bumi Manusia represent storytelling that infrequently portrays happiness. Within these works, a qualitative approach is used in selecting data based on purposive sampling. On the one hand, the analysis requires a conceptual framework on happiness that is grounded in eudaimonia and its subsequent derivative concepts. Eudaimonia translates as “flourishing” or “well-being” and is often equated with living wisely. On the other hand, Žižek’s theory of social fantasy also assists this research by exploring how narratives shape our understanding of the social environment. A fantasy that “teaches us how to desire”. The analysis shows that the characters in those novels have the potential to achieve happiness. Nevertheless, the social fantasy of society (the authors) encounters limitations in identifying a model of happiness, prompting an exploration of religious and/or spiritual dimensions. The situations of happiness are more of a pursuit than a reason. Ultimately, this study contributes to contemporary literary criticism related to happiness and social context. The social structuration lies at the state level, where the dominance of ideological frameworks overlooks the fulfilments of (social) justice, humanity, unity, and even divinity.
Postmemory Analysis In Jacqueline Woodson’s Brown Girl Dreaming Nur Khafifah M; Aprinus Salam
Jurnal Onoma: Pendidikan, Bahasa, dan Sastra Vol. 12 No. 1 (2026): Penulis pada Edisi ini Terdiri dari Enam (6) Negara: Indonesia, Malaysia, Chin
Publisher : Universitas Cokroaminoto Palopo

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.30605/onoma.v12i1.7676

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This study explores the representation of transgenerational trauma in Brown Girl Dreaming (2014) by Jacqueline Woodson through the theoretical lens of postmemory as developed by Marianne Hirsch. Postmemory, originally formulated in the context of Holocaust studies, refers to the affective and symbolic inheritance of trauma by generations who did not directly experience the original events. This research argues that Brown Girl Dreaming, although presented as a poetic memoir of a Black girl's childhood, serves as a complex narrative space in which the legacy of slavery, racial segregation, and structural injustice is mediated and internalized across generations. The study employs a qualitative literary analysis method using close reading as the major tool to identify three key mechanisms of postmemory in the text: familial transmission, embodied memory, and narrative fragmentation. These mechanisms reveal how collective trauma is not only preserved in language and story but also in gestures, silences, and poetic form. Furthermore, this research investigates how Woodson constructs her identity through the internalization of inherited loss and imaginative identification, demonstrating how a post-traumatic subject can move from a position of passive inheritance to active narrative agency. By applying the postmemory framework to an African-American children’s memoir, this research contributes to the growing field of memory studies in the scope of postmemory theory beyond Eurocentric contexts. It also opens new directions for the analysis of Black diasporic and children’s literature. Significantly, the findings demonstrate that children’s literature is not merely a didactic or developmental genre, but a powerful medium through which intergenerational trauma can be reimagined and critically engaged. Brown Girl Dreaming exemplifies how children’s narratives can carry the weight of historical memory while cultivating critical consciousness in both young and adult readers.