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SULUK: Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra, dan Budaya
ISSN : 26862689     EISSN : 27147932     DOI : https://doi.org/10.15642/suluk
SULUK: Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra, dan Budaya is a half-yearly journal published by the literary studies program of Universitas Islam Negeri Sunan Ampel Surabaya. Suluk provides a forum for the scholar of literary studies, with special reference to linguistics, literature, and culture. The journal publishes articles on literature, language, philology, and culture of Indonesia with a special interest in the study of literature/language from different geographical areas such as Arabic, Indonesian, Javanese, etc. Suluk is accredited by Crossref, Google Scholar, Garuda, Indonesia Onesearch, Dimensions, Microsoft Academic, Index Copernicus International, Research Bible, and ROAD. Suluk uses the Open Journal System and email. It is a double-blind peer-reviewed by the international and national reviewers. This journal is an open-access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.
Articles 116 Documents
Real Issue or Propaganda? Students’ Perspectives on Post Truth Phenomenon in Films Adzhani, Shabrina An; Ntamwana, Simon
SULUK : Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra, dan Budaya Vol. 7 No. 1 (2025): Maret
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15642/suluk.2025.7.1.43-62

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The development of information technology has led an era called post truth, when a particular viewpoint is published, accepted as true, and causes other alternative truths to be rejected. It is important for digital citizen to be aware of the existence of such phenomena. This research aims at revealing the perspective of university students semester 6 at English Letters program, UIN Raden Mas Said Surakarta on post truth phenomenon emerging though social media as reflected in two films, Missing and Don’t Look Up. Using reader response approach and McIntire’s theory about post truth, the finding shows that students can generally notice post truth phenomenon in the society and are able to analyse how post truth are circulated. From the last steps of the research, it can be seen that more than half of the students demonstrated a critical and neutral stance, while the rest showed indifference, arguing that they did not know the person involved in the news. Meanwhile, most students showed greater concern and critical thinking when responding to the global issue presented in Don’t Look Up. This indicates that, in general, students demonstrated the necessary attitude—being critical and evaluative of the narratives circulating in the digital platforms.
Perempuan dan Kolonialisme: Pembacaan Feminisme Eksistensialis atas Karsa karya El Alicia Auliya, Tasya Khilyatul; Safira, Rahmalia Putri; Widad, Madidatul
SULUK : Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra, dan Budaya Vol. 7 No. 2 (2025): September
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15642/suluk.2025.7.2.116-136

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In the facts of life, the existence of women has existed since the colonial period. Women voice their existence in society, as well as the existence of women in literary works. Female existentialism found in the novel “Karsa” by El Alicia is carried out by a character named Raden Ajeng Anjani. This research uses the theory of existentialism feminism pioneered by Simone de Beauvoir. This theory seeks to make women exist by themselves and have the right to choose their decisions as women. Similarly, El Alicia raised the theme of women in her work. This research uses a descriptive qualitative method by analyzing text data contained in the novel “Karsa,” the data collection technique used in this research is reading and recording. Observation in analyzing data is done by observing, reading and then recording data that is in accordance with the topic discussed. The results show that there are three efforts of women's existence made by Anjani's character, namely transforming in society, having an understanding that women have the right to gain insight, and wanting the existence of women to be valued. In addition, this study describes the marginalization of women as others, and the counter feminist characters in the novel “Karsa”.
Analisis Wacana Kritis terhadap Representasi Bansos di Indonesia: Pendekatan Berbasis Korpus Imamah, Fitria Habibatul; Kharirin, Nur
SULUK : Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra, dan Budaya Vol. 7 No. 2 (2025): September
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15642/suluk.2025.7.2.209-230

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Social assistance (bansos) constitutes one of the key instruments in Indonesia’s poverty alleviation policies. However, beyond its role as a welfare intervention, bansos has also emerged as a complex social discourse encompassing issues of distribution, justice, political dynamics, and the abuse of power. This study aims to uncover the representation of bansos discourse in Indonesia by employing a corpus-based critical discourse analysis approach. The data utilized in this study is drawn from the LCC Indonesia 2023 corpus, comprising 573 million tokens across 43 texts, analyzed using the CQPweb software. A mixed-methods approach combining both quantitative and qualitative techniques through corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis was applied. The Qindings indicate that bansos is generally represented in a positive light, as a form of assistance and a solution to welfare-related issues. Nevertheless, the discourse also carries negative connotations, particularly in relation to corruption, political manipulation, and inequities in distribution.
Sacred Temporality, Homecoming, and Religious Magical Realism in Danarto’s Indonesian Fiction Lailatul Qadar Al Banna, Dzar
SULUK : Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra, dan Budaya Vol. 7 No. 2 (2025): September
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15642/suluk.2025.7.2.158-182

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This article examines how Danarto’s short story Lailatul Qadar transforms the culturally familiar experience of mudik (homecoming) into a religiously charged magical realist narrative. The study asks how the story constructs an empirically recognisable social world, how it introduces irreducible supernatural phenomena without collapsing into fantasy, and how its narrative form turns late-Ramadan mobility into a site of ontological uncertainty. This study adopts a qualitative textual case study grounded in close reading, document analysis, Wendy B. Faris’s theory of magical realism, and Gérard Genette’s narratology. The analysis focuses on five dimensions: the phenomenal world, irreducible magical elements, unsettling doubts, the merging of realms, and disruptions of time, space, and identity, while also tracing focalization, voice, temporal sequencing, and symbolic imagery. The findings show that Danarto does not merely append miracle to realism; he narratively fuses everyday piety, transport infrastructures, family intimacy, and sacred temporality into what this article terms religious remystification. Mudik appears not only as social mobility but as a threshold through which divine presence, angelic mediation, and spiritual testing become narratively legible. The article argues that Lailatul Qadar expands the discussion of magical realism in Indonesian literature by showing that its enchantment may emerge from Islamic sacred time rather than from folklore alone. It also demonstrates that intrinsic elements become analytically productive when read as narrative devices that organize religious ambiguity rather than as isolated formal components.
Bakhtinian Carnivalesque and Gender Erasure in Ziggy Zezsyazeoviennazabrizkie’s Kering: Collective Child Voices and Communal Space Pitaloka, Diah; Atikurrahman, Moh; Siregar, Wahidah Zein Br
SULUK : Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra, dan Budaya Vol. 7 No. 2 (2025): September
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15642/suluk.2025.7.2.137-157

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This article examines how Ziggy Zezsyazeoviennazabrizkie’s short story Kering constructs an alternative social world through the erasure of gender legibility, the centering of child characters, and the laundromat as a communal refuge. This study asks: (1) how the laundromat operates as a carnivalesque liminal chronotope; (2) how the collective first-person plural voice generates polyphony and shared child subjectivity; and (3) how voicelessness and bodily/identity anomalies mobilize grotesque realism to critique gendered structural violence. This research employs qualitative close reading supported by directed coding based on Bakhtinian carnivalesque theory (carnival “second life,” degradation/uncrowning, grotesque realism) and a gender-inclusive narrative perspective. Textual segments are coded across three analytic axes (space, voice, and body) then synthesized through interpretive content analysis. Kering stages the laundromat as a temporary egalitarian commons that suspends adult/patriarchal authority, enabling children’s communal life. The collective “we” voice distributes narrative agency across multiple child figures, producing polyphonic witnessing while weakening gender as a stable organizing category. Grotesque bodily imagery and motifs of voicelessness translate unspeakable harm into a material critique of structural violence, positioning gender erasure as a deliberate oppositional strategy rather than neutrality. The analysis focuses on a single short story; broader claims require comparative studies across contemporary Indonesian fiction and reader-reception research. The article integrates Bakhtinian carnivalesque, collective narration, and gender-inclusive reading to reframe children as modern subjects who contest normative gender and violence through form.
Negotiating Colonial Memory and Cosmopolitan Intimacy: Gendered Subjectivity in Negeri Van Oranje’s Travel Narrative Hapsari, Retno Tyas; Wibowo, Sarwo Ferdi; Muslimin, Muhammad Fadli
SULUK : Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra, dan Budaya Vol. 7 No. 2 (2025): September
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.15642/suluk.2025.7.2.183-208

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This article examines the negotiation of colonial memory and cosmopolitan intimacy through the gendered subjectivity of Lintang in the novel Negeri Van Oranje. Drawing on Debbie Lisle’s framework of travel writing as a politically saturated genre, the study argues that the narrative does not merely celebrate transnational mobility or intercultural romance. Instead, it demonstrates how these experiences are Uiltered through a hierarchy of value where Dutch spaces, white masculinity, and metropolitan institutions remain privileged signs of aspiration. Methodologically, the research employs a qualitative interpretive design combining close reading and discourse analysis of scenes involving desire, education, and romantic attachment. The Uindings reveal three signiUicant patterns: Uirst, colonial desire is internalized prior to departure through Lintang’s aspirations for a Dutch education and a foreign husband; second, the Dutch social world is consistently narrated as morally and institutionally superior; and third, while interactions with Uigures like Arbenita and Jeroen introduce a fragile cosmopolitan ethic, it remains partial and conditional. The study concludes that the novel stages a "pseudo-cosmopolitan" formation rather than an egalitarian one. In this framework, an apparent openness to difference coexists with the persistent reproduction of colonial hierarchies, positioning the European "Other" as a lingering site of authority.

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