Poetika: Jurnal Ilmu Sastra
Vol 3, No 1 (2015): Issue 1

GAMBARAN DIRI ANDREA HIRATA DALAM NOVEL EDENSOR: KONSEP TRAVEL WRITING CARL THOMPSON

Arie Azhari Nasution (Sastra Indonesia Universitas Sumatera Utara, Medan)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Jul 2015

Abstract

This research is about to review the self-image in the novel by Andrea Hirata, Edensor, which tells the story of his travels around Europe and some African countries as a form of travel writing. To discover how Andrea Hirata write and illustrate the discovery of spaces as a form of a report from the places he visited and how he positioned himself as a traveler, used the theory of  travel writing Carl Thompson to identify novel Edensor from concept Reporting The World, Revealing The Self, and Representing The Other. As a  result, Andrea Hirata identified as a romantic traveler who tends to give a picture of himsel fas an autobiography and more to self-awareness (self-consciously) displayed in each trip made because the motivation to find himself. Moreover, he recognizes himself as inferior to the West because he comes from the East.Keywords: Andrea Hirata, Edensor, Travel Writing, Postcolonial Studies, Travel, Self-Image

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poetika

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Arts Humanities

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POETIKA: Jurnal Ilmu Sastra publishes academic articles within the scope of literary criticism (limited to poem, prose, drama, oral tradition, and philology). The articles cover the form of a result on specific analysis; academic reports; closed reading; and the application of certain theories to ...