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Litera Kultura : Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies accepts articles within the scope of Literature and Cultural Studies. The journal is published three times in a year: April, August, and December.
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Subalternity in Amitav Ghoshs Sea of Poppies: Representation of Indian Womens Struggle Against Patriarchy SOPHIA KIKI ARTANTI
LITERA KULTURA : Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies Vol 7 No 1 (2019): April
Publisher : The English Department, Faculty of Languages and Arts, Universitas Negeri Surabaya

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | Full PDF (356.889 KB) | DOI: 10.26740/lk.v7i1.31209

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This study analyses the subaltern that represented by Deeti in Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies. The subject of the subaltern as an Indian woman is struggling against patriarchy in society. This study uses the postcolonialism theory, including the theory of subaltern to analyze the representation of the subaltern subject who fights against patriarchy. That subject represented by Indian women as the subject of the subaltern. The narration of Deeti in the first Trilogy Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh is the main focus of this study. This study using postcolonialism theory from Homi K. Bhabha and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, then subaltern theory also using Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak which describes how colonialized subject lives and theories from Sylvia Walby and Gerda Lerner for the definition of patriarchy. So, this study mainly about how patriarchy will be related to Deeti as the subaltern explained by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. The data will be taken from many aspects such as dialogues, a depiction of the situation, characters, etc. This study analyzed two problems, which are (1) How is subalternity represented in Amitav Ghosh’s Sea of Poppies? (2) How do Indian Women’s struggle to fight against patriarchy in Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh? The results of this study show that Subaltern represented by Indian Women. Then the struggle of Deeti as an Indian Woman and the other characters fights against the patriarchy. Keywords: Postcolonialism, Subaltern, Patriarchy
SLUT SHAMMING SUFFERED BY HANNAH BAKER IN JAY ASHER’S THIRTEEN REASONS WHY IDHA NURAIDA HAVINA
LITERA KULTURA : Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies Vol 7 No 1 (2019): April
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Slut shaming is a common issue that becomes another form of bullying and tends to go unnoticed by the public. Partly, it is experienced by a girl or woman in high school through sexual behavior or activity. This study explores the presentation of slut shaming in the literary work, Jay Asher’s Thirteen Reasons Why. The novel is reviewed as realistic fiction that shares slut shaming issue. Two objectives are illustrated here as, to find out how is slut shaming was experienced by Hannah Baker and what are the impacts of slut shaming toward Hannah’s life in Jay Asher’s Thirteen Reasons Why. It discusses the issue of slut shaming that happened to the main character by applying the theories of Jessica Ring rose and Emma Renold. The first results of this study reveal that Hannah Baker has experience slut shaming from her close friend. As the main character, she told the whole of her story through thirteen tapes and has some people on her special list. Being labeled as a slut and bad rumors show that she gets different treatment from her friends at school. The second result is about some psychological impacts of slut shaming toward Hannah Baker’s life in the novel. Here, Hannah shows a huge impact until makes her thought of suicide. Key words : Slut shaming, The psychological impacts, High School, Thirteen Reasons Why
SEX-TYPING IN DAVID EBERSHOFF’S THE DANISH GIRL AHMAD HIBATULLAH HAQQY
LITERA KULTURA : Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies Vol 7 No 1 (2019): April
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David Ebershoff’s The Danish Girl is a novel about a transgender in America. The objective of this research is to find out the depiction and the reasons of sex-typing process in The Danish Girl novel’s main character. This study used the Psychoanalysis theory by Paul Henry Mussen. In this study, there is two problem formulation. The first is to reveal how sex-typing depicted David Ebershoff’s The Danish Girl. The second problem is the reasons for the habit of sex-typing in David Ebershoff’s The Danish Girl. After analyzing this novel, there are two conclusions. Firstly, Einar Wegener is described as a man who has a feminine tendency. He identifies himself as a girl who trapped inside a male body. Secondly, Einar fill up the reasons for the occurrence of sex-typing habit. The reasons split into three parts. Firstly, the researcher finds that Einar get through the identification process. The second is a desire for praise, affection, and acceptance by parents and peers for sexually proper behaviour. The last, fear of punishment or rejection for sexual misconduct. Nevertheless, Einar turns out to be a woman trapped in a mans body. Keywords: Sex-typing, Psychoanalysis, Transgender, Transsexual
READING DIASPORIC MUSLIMS IN AUSTRALIA IN RANDA ABDEL FATTAH’S DOES MY HEAD LOOK BIG IN THIS? CAMILIA ANJELINA
LITERA KULTURA : Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies Vol 7 No 1 (2019): April
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Literary work has a relation with the reader because of the essence of literary work for readers. Therefore the quality of literary work based on the assessment of readers. Entitled readers to comment, judge, enjoy and appreciate what they read. The readers have a different way to give respond because the perception or respond based on their background includes their experience, their family, their environment. In this case, this thesis uses the novel of Randa Abdel Fattah with the title Does My Head Look Big In this. Which this novel about racism to Muslims in Australia. The reason for the research is the novel has critical of society in Australia with their perspective of Muslims. Besides that Indonesia is one of the largest Muslim populations. So we have to know how the perception or respond of Indonesias young Muslim to this novel. This research aims to describe how the responds or perception of Indonesia young Muslim to the novel of Randa Abdel Fattah Does My Head Look Big In this. This research using interviews and reading the log. This theory of this research is reading the response, diaspora studies, identity, veil and veiling practice, immigrant Muslims in Australia. The result of the research is showing that readers involves emotional and feeling in their response. Some of the readers feel that the veil is important for women especially Muslims, others felt that the veil is a commitment. therefore, the response of readers it depends on each individual. After the reader read the novel, they have some emotional and feeling to the character in the novel. The readers fell what the character feeling although they just read the novel.
WOMENS OPPRESSION AND LIBERATION IN SEFI ATTAS EVERYTHING GOOD WILL COME AYU PURI RAHAYU
LITERA KULTURA : Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies Vol 7 No 1 (2019): April
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Sefi Atta as one of Nigerian famous writers has made an honorable literary work entitled Everything Good Will Come. Atta was trying to portray the life of men and women under a patriarchal society. Women that are regarded as second class citizens are being oppressed by the superior class, in this case, men are taking the part as their oppressor. This study will focus on revealing how oppression is happened to female characters, done by male characters. Irish M. Young’s founding will be used to identify different types of oppression that are experienced by women. Young divides oppression into five structures; exploitation, marginalization, powerlessness, cultural imperialism, and violence. The analysis exposes that the events in the novel indicate the existence of oppression that comes across each female character in the novel, per character might face a different combination of oppression’s structures. Other than oppression, this study will also unveil women’s attempts to liberate themselves from oppression. Since Nigeria still strongly embraces patriarchal culture, a patriarchal theory will be applied, a theory coined by Sylvia Walby will come as an assist to reveal how women are living in a patriarchal society which can be the source of their repressions. Walby also points out her arguments about several egressions that women can do to free themselves from patriarchy. Some of Walby’s commentaries will be applied to this study as guidance to name the female characters’ struggles such as do the decision-making for their own lives, education, career improvisation, and divorcement to fight against male supremacy. Keywords: Oppression, Patriarchy, Liberation, Radical Feminism.
Diaspora Space in Alice Pung's Growing Up Asian in Australia mega rahmadani
LITERA KULTURA : Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies Vol 8 No 1 (2020): April
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In this era lots of people around the world doing movement that is called as Diaspora. Diaspora is the movement, migration, or scattering of a people away from an established or ancestral homeland. In living abroad, people are usually away from their nativity just like in the native country. In maintaining the nativeness, the diasporian people showing their diaspora space as the key to have life like native. Diaspora space is a site where the native is as much a diasporian as the diasporian is the native. The anthology book entitled Growing up Asian in Australia gives lot of stories that related into the diasporian life through the struggling of being immigrant. This research emphasizes into two problems (1) how is diaspora space depicted in the story and (2) how does diaspora space shape the characters’ cultural identity. The research used social identity theory by Samovar in analysing the data to answer the statement of the problems. The data is the quotation from the story that related into the problem, and the source of the data is Growing up Asian in Australia book by Alice Pung. This research is qualitative research since using library research as the technique of analysis. The result shows that diaspora space does exists among the characters through their activities and later it is found that diaspora space holds significant contribution towards identity development.
“THE AUSTRALIAN” MEDIA’S PERSPECTIVE TOWARDS PRABOWO SUBIANTO’S VICTORY CLAIM: A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS Rahelita Luki Yuvitasari
LITERA KULTURA : Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies Vol 8 No 1 (2020): April
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Mass media has been a massive influence on showing the perspective towards a certain issue to the people. Furthermore, media as a part of discourse has a huge part of framing the certain issue and show the neutralism of the media towards what is conveyed in the news. This study aims to reveal the perspective that The Australian media was trying to portray upon the political condition in Indonesia under the situation of recent presidential election. This study uses socio-political theory of critical discourse analysis to reveal the neutralism or which side that the media is supporting to. It is found using Critical Discourse Analysis that The Australian media indicated to portray the foregrounding towards Prabowo and benefits the back-grounded side which is the incumbent, Joko Widodo. Key words: media, critical discourse analysis, the Australian media, politics. 
THE USE OF EUPHEMISM IN DONALD TRUMP AMERICAN ARABIC SUMMIT SPEECH Anita Firdausi Nuzula
LITERA KULTURA : Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies Vol 8 No 1 (2020): April
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Euphemism is a language phenomenon that exists in society. As social beings, human uses a language to communicate each other. This is for delivering a message or information from one to another without miss the idea, opinion, or feeling. The speaker can use the euphemistic expression during delivering the message to reach a certain goal. Thus, it can be found in the middle of conversation, include in the special speech which has been delivered by a representative of nation (president). This study aimed to explain the types, forms and functions of euphemism that are found in a speech of Donald Trump in American-Arabic summit. This study is descriptive qualitative based on phenomena of euphemism in spoken language. The writer used the theory of Rawson to analyze the type and form of euphemism expression, and the theory of Sebkova to analyze the function of the use euphemism expression. The result of this study shows that there are four type of euphemism found in the speech of Donald Trump in the American Arabic summit (circumlocution, widening, metaphor, and abbreviation). There are six functions of euphemism are found in the speech of Donald Trump in the American Arabic summit. Euphemism may be used substitute bad connotation of utterance; euphemism may be used to protect someone or group of people of feeling shame; euphemism may be used as alternative for taboo word; euphemism may be used to neutralizing the unpleasant word; euphemism may be used to protect personal name or group; euphemism may be used to explain or exaggerate. The function of euphemism that is mostly used is explain in exaggerate way and avoid the word of taboo.Keywords: Euphemism, Political Speech, Donald Trump Speech.
Morphological Process of Compound Words on Food and Beverage Names in J.CO Donuts & Coffee Fitri Rahmawati Astiandani
LITERA KULTURA : Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies Vol 8 No 1 (2020): April
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Abstract Opting for food and beverage names on the menu list becomes a significant part of the marketing strategy. The only aim is to attract more consumers. Therefore, several culinary businesses such as restaurants, cafes, or food stall provide menu lists written in English and in a unique way either by combining words or forming a new word. In this case, morphological process plays a significant role in forming compound words. The purpose of the study is to describe the process of forming the compound words as well as classify the semantic types and meanings on food and beverage names in J.CO Donuts & Coffee. This study applies a descriptive qualitative method and theories from Delahunty and Garvey (2010) and Lieber (2009) in analyzing the data. In gaining the data analysis, several processes of analysis are done, they are (1) describing the formation of each name, (2) classifying the names based on its classes in compound category, (3) finding the meaning of each name then categorize it according to the semantic types and meaning. The result shows that food and beverage are formed from compound nouns, compound adjectives, and neo-classical compounds with three classifications namely double morpheme, double compound words, and without double morpheme and double compound. In semantic types and meanings, there are found endocentric compound with transparent meaning and exocentric compound with opaque meaning. Keywords: morphological process, compound words, endocentric and exocentric compound, transparent and opaque meaning, food and beverage names
Classification of Dad Jokes in icanhazdadjoke.com Rosyad Mahasin Miranto
LITERA KULTURA : Journal of Literary and Cultural Studies Vol 8 No 1 (2020): April
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Dad Jokes is a short joke, typically a pun, presented as a one-liner or a question and answer, but not a narrative. Dad Jokes is actually treated as an entirely separate thing compared to puns or word plays, even though puns make up the majority of the joke. Of course, the name “Dad Joke” is derived from the fact that it is usually been told by one’s own father. This Study uses various Theories, such as Jensen’s Explanation of Dad Jokes (2015), as well various theories for Sentence Structure, Puns, Semantic Relation, Figure of Speech, and most notably, Searle’s Theory of Illocutionary Act (1977). The Method used in the study is Quantitative. The Data here are gathered and classified based on numbers, percentage, and statistics, both for the classification of the subject as well as the analysis of the Dad Joke. As for the Subject, there are a total of 540 examples of Dad Jokes from icanhazdadjoke.com. The Datas are gathered from Icanhazdadjoke.com before its individual jokes are going to be analyzed, in order to understand how Dad Jokes are groupe. The full analysis would take too long to mention, however, and thus only its results are explained here with some examples. In the end, as a result of this study, Dad Jokes are divided into three forms of Classifications, consisting of Four Types by the Structure, Six Types by the Meaning, and Five Types by the Illocutionary Act. Key Words: Dad Jokes, Classification, Puns and Wordplays, Illocutionary Act 

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