Buletin Al-Turas
Vol 15, No 1 (2009): Buletin Al-Turas

The Darkness in Umairoh

Hasnul Insani (Universitas Islam Negeri Syarif Hidayatullah)



Article Info

Publish Date
23 Jan 2018

Abstract

This research aims to find information about gender issues exploited by the author in The Jakarta Post short story ascribed by Yanusa Nugroho entitled Umairoh. The objectives of the research are 1. To investigate how women are described and positioned in the short story 2. To assess the implied attitudes of the author toward gender in the short story. 3. To identify the attitudes of the editors toward gender in the short story. The research results that; first women are described and positioned in the short story as suffered and powerless human beings. Second, the author implies that both women and men have ambivalent attitudes toward gender. Third, the editors let gender issues go to the public without qualification.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

al-turats

Publisher

Subject

Arts Humanities Languange, Linguistic, Communication & Media

Description

JOURNAL BULETIN ALTURAS (ISSN 0853-1692; E-ISSN: 2579-5848) is open access journal that is published by Faculty of Adab and Humanities, UIN Syarif Hidayatullah Jakarta. It serves to disseminate research and practical articles that relating to the current issues on the study of history, literature, ...