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<![CDATA[A day of history and hope: A critical discourse analysis of Joe Biden’s Inauguration speech ]]>
<![CDATA[ Rainbow : Journal of Literature, Linguistics and Culture Studies Vol 10 No 2 (2021): Rainbow: Journal of Literature, Linguistics and Culture Studies ]]>
Publisher : <![CDATA[English Department, Faculty of Languages and Arts, Universitas Negeri Semarang ]]>
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DOI: 10.15294/rainbow.v10i2.45383
<![CDATA[This article explores how President-elect Joe Biden used the rhetoric of political language in his inauguration speech as an attempt to showcase his policy plans as well as his political views on the American political scene. This article also looks at how each of the political messages in his inauguration speech shows the ideology and power that Joe Biden believes in. To provide comprehensive details about the elements of Joe Biden’s inauguration speech, the researchers use Norman Fairclough’s idea to view continuing social practice via the prisms of text, discourse practice, and the sociocultural practice that underpins the text, or to view the underlying reality that gave rise to the discourse]]>
<![CDATA[Living in a hamster wheel: Identity construction through hopes and terrors in Bong Joon-Ho’s 'Parasite' ]]>
<![CDATA[ Rainbow : Journal of Literature, Linguistics and Culture Studies Vol 10 No 1 (2021): Rainbow : Journal of Literature, Linguistics and Culture Studies ]]>
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DOI: 10.15294/rainbow.v10i1.45388
<![CDATA[Bong Joon-Ho’s Parasite (2019) has successfully depicted universal issues regarding class identity and social mobility. It tells us a story about a lower-class family, the Kims who aspired and struggled in their journey of climbing the social ladder. This research aims to explore the process of identity construction of the Kims. Close textual analysis is employed as a tool for investigation and Althusser’s ideological interpellation is used to explain the process. The research also focuses on the socio-cultural factors that influence the Kims’ social mobility which contribute to the permanence of their class identity. The findings found out that many symbolic markers such as differences in property, neighborhood, education, diet and behavior distinguish the lower- and upper-class families. Thus, interpellation occurs when the family is lured into believing the ‘American dream’: by working hard enough and taking more risks, it is possible to climb up the social hierarchy. It constructs their identity as a lower-class with aspirations to move upward. This study also concludes that the persistence of social immobility is highly influenced by the level of education, perceptual discrimination, the impossibility of cross-class marriage and the economic inequality. Therefore, it proves that class identity can be unfavorable inheritance.]]>
<![CDATA[Moral value in "Osakat Anak Asmat" story written by Ani Sekarningsih ]]>
<![CDATA[ Rainbow : Journal of Literature, Linguistics and Culture Studies Vol 11 No 1 (2022): Rainbow : Journal of Literature, Linguistics and Culture Studies ]]>
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DOI: 10.15294/rainbow.v11i1.45458
<![CDATA[The purpose of this study was to study the moral values and character education in the story Osakat Anak Asmat by Ani Sekarningsih which was used as teaching material. The method is descriptive qualitative with an approach of content analysis. The data are written words from a subject that has been observed. The subject of this study is the story. Data analysis contains the value of character education that is contained in the story. The results showed that: (1) nine characters values were issued by the Ministry of National Education and Culture, namely independence, discipline, social care, curiosity, friendly/communicative, religious, hard work, creativity, and rewarding achievement; (2) four moral characters can be emulated, namely obedience to parents, sharing or giving, patience, and wise; and (3) three behaviors are not exemplary, namely irresponsible, discouraging friends and jealousy.]]>
<![CDATA[Strategies and creativity used by fansubbers in subtitling 'Hot and Young Seoul Trip X NCT Life' to overcome language barriers ]]>
<![CDATA[ Rainbow : Journal of Literature, Linguistics and Culture Studies Vol 10 No 2 (2021): Rainbow: Journal of Literature, Linguistics and Culture Studies ]]>
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DOI: 10.15294/rainbow.v10i2.45774
<![CDATA[This research focuses on the subtitling strategies and creative subtitling used in translating the Korean variety show Hot and Young Seoul Trip X NCT LIFE (2018) into Indonesian and the impact of fan subtitles to overcome language barriers. In order to draw more understanding, qualitative content analysis was applied to describe the subtitling strategies and creative subtitling used by the fansubbers in producing Indonesian subtitles. An online survey was conducted to determine the impact of the subtitling from the fans' perspective. The research findings on subtitling strategies were obtained from 1599 data and showed that there were eight strategies applied in this research. Amid those strategies, transfer with 1434 data found is the most used strategy, followed by imitation, dislocation, expansion, paraphrase, transcription, condensation, and deletion. Then, the creative subtitling used in the work using different colors, fonts, and punctuation that is influenced by field (topic), tenor (relationship), and mode (circumstances). The online survey results prescribe that the subtitles of the fan help the audience overcome language barriers by producing translated audiovisual content into their language. Therefore, the fansubbers' decision to combine subtitling strategies and creative subtitling helps the foreign audiences overcome language barriers]]>
<![CDATA[Katniss’ Savior: Wilderness in Suzanne Collins’s 'The Hunger Games' ]]>
<![CDATA[ Rainbow : Journal of Literature, Linguistics and Culture Studies Vol 10 No 1 (2021): Rainbow : Journal of Literature, Linguistics and Culture Studies ]]>
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DOI: 10.15294/rainbow.v10i1.46005
<![CDATA[From many discussions on wilderness in literary works, only a few focus on the young adult dystopian, even more on Suzanne Collins’s The Hunger Games. For this reason, this article aims to portray the wilderness in the book as the survival resource since the previous studies fail to point out such an issue. This recent study is conducted by descriptive qualitative methods. As the theoretical basis, the discussion employs Garrard’s account of wilderness and Ross’s myth of wilderness in American literature. As a result, the discussion depicts the wilderness as the natural woodland surrounding District 12 and the artificial battleground of the Games in Panem. The woods in Katniss’s district enable her to provide for her family and develop such literacy in the wilderness. This literacy is advantageous in the Games arena, thus helps Katniss to be one of the winners. The findings might provide such an insight to the reader to live harmoniously with nature, even more with the wilderness.]]>
<![CDATA[Integrating Peace Education in Literature Class ]]>
<![CDATA[ Rainbow : Journal of Literature, Linguistics and Culture Studies Vol 10 No 1 (2021): Rainbow : Journal of Literature, Linguistics and Culture Studies ]]>
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DOI: 10.15294/rainbow.v10i1.46147
<![CDATA[The increasing cases of terrorism and extremism unite practitioners and theoreticians to put serious attention to the role of education for peacebuilding. However, finding an appropriate strategy connecting literature education to peacebuilding is challenging. Thus, the study explored the effectiveness of engaging suitable literary works to be used at schools to convey a peaceful message through To Kill a Mockingbird (TKAM) and The Kite Runner (TKR). The study was conducted in 4 classes of Literary Work Analysis course of IAIN Syekh Nurjati students in the second semester of 2018/2019 by applying Wahyudin’s (2018) five factors of peace education implementation in the classrooms. The study aimed to 1) investigate how to integrate peace education into the literature class and 2) elucidate the students' perception of peace education in the integrated literature class. It was found that applying peace education should consider 1) objectives, 2) subject contents, 3) methods and strategies, 4) media, and 5) learning evaluation. Students also perceived and learned about peace education by addressing some related issues in their papers and a survey.]]>
<![CDATA[The Unstable Nature of Dominant-Subordinate Relation: Postcolonial Study Towards Thomas King’s 'The Colour of Walls' ]]>
<![CDATA[ Rainbow : Journal of Literature, Linguistics and Culture Studies Vol 10 No 1 (2021): Rainbow : Journal of Literature, Linguistics and Culture Studies ]]>
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DOI: 10.15294/rainbow.v10i1.46261
<![CDATA[Aboriginal/Indigenous peoples, cultures and works of literature (in the broadest sense) play a crucial role in the continuous growth of world literary and cultural studies. Indigenous writers advocate indigenous rights and address their concerns in works of fiction and non-fiction. Focusing on the correlation between the dominant (center) and the subordinate (margin) in Thomas King’s The Colour of Walls (2013), the present paper aims to specifically investigate the dominant-subordinate interplay in the colonial discourse. So as to elucidate this labyrinthine network of relationships, Homi Bhabha’s critical concept of hybridity is employed throughout the analysis process. The results indicate the unstable nature of dominant-subordinate dichotomy in the story, where power-based relationships are subject to constant change. Accordingly, this process of cultural struggle provides a site for the subordinate to change their marginal position and to resist the dominant’s influence; ultimately, this process assists the subordinate to reclaim their own independent identity.]]>
<![CDATA[Skin whitening as a menace to African identity through Tony Morrison's 'The Bluest Eyes': An Afrocentric examination ]]>
<![CDATA[ Rainbow : Journal of Literature, Linguistics and Culture Studies Vol 10 No 2 (2021): Rainbow: Journal of Literature, Linguistics and Culture Studies ]]>
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DOI: 10.15294/rainbow.v10i2.46754
<![CDATA[The African democratic forces, among other things, aimed to resuscitate and re-essentialise African identities that the colonial administration had endangered earlier. These autonomous corps dispensed mechanisms to champion Africanism and conscientise African natives about their heritage. The cherishing of African identities automated decolonial shifts and inculcated an urge into Africans to be proud of who they are and where they come from. Notwithstanding these efforts, the study diagnoses skin whitening as a stubborn nemesis that menaces the authenticity of Africanism in the present day. Many Africans, especially black women appear to be gravitated to skin whitening. This act embraces the attempt to alter one’s dark skin tone to be bright. Most of the skin whiteners are postulated to whiten their skins in an effort to qualify into the modern-day Eurocentric criterions of beauty at the expense of their black (African) identity. This paper employed a qualitative methodology and has relied on secondary data to unveil the extent to which skin whitening imperils African identities. It has employed Morrison’s The Bluest Eyes as a lens to crystalise the impacts of skin whitening on Africanism. The study has discovered that the skin-whitening phenomenon epitomises and perpetuates Eurocentric ideologies and it is preferred by most women because of the assumed glory that comes with the white identity such as social class, privilege, attractiveness, favour, and admiration.]]>
<![CDATA[The discussion of body in 'Every Day' by David Levithan ]]>
<![CDATA[ Rainbow : Journal of Literature, Linguistics and Culture Studies Vol 10 No 2 (2021): Rainbow: Journal of Literature, Linguistics and Culture Studies ]]>
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DOI: 10.15294/rainbow.v10i2.46906
<![CDATA[In the novel Every Day by David Levithan, there exists a profound discussion about body through its protagonist A’s life, its plot, dialogues, and events that unfold. This paper uses qualitative textual analysis as its methods in order to obtain relevant data to be further analyzed using the theoretical framework from Stuart Hall (theory of representation (2013)) and Chris Shilling (The Body and Social Theory (2003)). Through the indexical signs from the text, there are discussions of how the body is represented, which are as something superficial, as a mask, and as something temporary. Through the analysis of the social body, it is also found that the body has become a social asset in which it could also contribute to one’s self-identity, creating the body as a project that one could work on throughout one’s life. Consequently, the metaphor of body as a machine appears, as well as the revelation that there is also a close relation between death and the body. Through death, the social body is reduced into individual body, where the living often avoids the dead, fearing subconsciously of their own. These aspects could be observed from A’s life and Rhiannon’s response towards it.]]>
<![CDATA[Who is afraid of the Gods? Rethinking escapism in Nigerian dramatic literature ]]>
<![CDATA[ Rainbow : Journal of Literature, Linguistics and Culture Studies Vol 10 No 2 (2021): Rainbow: Journal of Literature, Linguistics and Culture Studies ]]>
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DOI: 10.15294/rainbow.v10i2.47239
<![CDATA[Escapism can mean different things to diverse sets of people in various fields of study. To some people, it can mean escape to reality, while some can denote it as an escape to entertainment or distraction from boredom. Escapism in this paper takes a different turn and adopts the term to identify how different decisions can be influenced in any socio-cultural setting. Using South Western Nigeria as a case study, this paper questions the possible interpretations of escapism and the extent to which leaders, especially, identify with them. This paper uses Ahmed Yerima's Sacred Mutters and Iyase to explore the issue of misinterpretation and human machination to escape punishment from the gods. "Sacred Mutters" and "Iyase" highlight leaders' plight before their ascension into power, and the issue of human carelessness, and how he or she is misguided by his or her own intellectual and spiritual interests. The paper argues that modernization and Westernisation had crippled most of the significant and core aspects of African norms, values, and traditions. This degradation has affected the criminal justice system of the people. Against this background, the paper adopts Olawole Famule's connective cultural theory to explore escapism, misinterpretation, and machination in Nigerian discourse. The paper concludes that escapism is the main cause of corruption in the socio-political landscape of Nigeria and calls for a return to traditional African system.]]>
