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Rubikon: Journal of Transnational American Studies

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Published by Universitas Gadjah Mada

ISSN : 25412248 EISSN : 2654413X DOI : https://doi.org/10.22146/rubikon

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RUBIKON, Journal of Transnational American Studies (JTAS) specializes in American Studies especially transnational studies of the U.S. It is also intended to communicate American Studies issues and challenges. This journal warmly welcomes contributors from American Studies scholars, researchers, and those related to the discipline.

Arjuna Subject : Seni dan Humaniora - Seni dan Humaniora (Lain-Lain)

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Women and Planters during American Revolution War as Narrated in Crèvecœur’s Letters from an American Farmer (1782) Livia Traesar; Danika Rahma Irianti; Ferry Hidayat
Rubikon : Journal of Transnational American Studies Vol 9, No 2 (2022)
Publisher : Universitas Gadjah Mada

The paper attempts to discover a historical fact of American women’s educational achievement and self-image as well as to unravel a psychological fact of American planters’ existential crisis in the historical period of Revolution War by means of information reported by Jean Hector St. John de Crèvecœur (1735-1813) in his famous Letters from an American Farmer (1782). To make the attempt successful, two literary criticisms are done by the writers of this paper, namely feminist criticism and existentialist criticism. The feminist criticism is carried out to dig up data out of the Letters and analyze it through feminist lens, while the existentialist criticism is performed to unearth signs of existential crisis experienced by the Southern planters during the Independence War of America. After scrutinizing the Letters, it is found that Southern women during the war of independence are well-educated but have a low self-image and that Southern planters suffer anguish and despair of woeful political revolution which shutter their existential equilibrium.

The Analysis of Racism toward African-American as seen in Selected Phillis Wheatley’s Poems Dyny Wahyu Seputri; Iffah Fikzia; Krisna Sujiwa
Rubikon : Journal of Transnational American Studies Vol 9, No 2 (2022)
Publisher : Universitas Gadjah Mada

The issues of race, racism and discrimination always become the canter of the study of the African-American community, for example in literature. An example of African-American Literature that described those things is written by Phillis Wheatley. In her poems that were influenced by the Neoclassicism era, entitled: “On being brought from AFRICA to AMERICA'' and “To the Right Honourable William, Earl of Dartmouth”, she delivered the issues of race and racism. This paper aims to analyze racism toward African-America as described in Phillis Wheatley’s poems. The researcher employed a qualitative descriptive method in which the collected data were analyzed, interpreted, and described to answer the objective of the study. The primary data in this undergraduate thesis are two selected poems by Wheatley and the supporting data were taken from books, articles, journals, online sources, and other sources. The researcher applied African-American criticism to answer the objective of the research. The Researchers use three basic tenets of African-American criticism (Everyday Racism, The Social Construction of Race and Voice of color). The findings show Wheatley’s poems portray the life of an African American who experienced racism first-hand. The concept of racism in the two selected poems from Wheatley’s has correlation with 3 concepts of racism of African-American criticism, those are: Everyday racism, The Social Construction of Race, Voice of color.

Celebrating the East: The Contestation of Whiteness and Colored in John M. Chu’s Crazy Rich Asians Rif'ah Inayati; Ida Rochani Adi; Muh. Arif Rokhman
Rubikon : Journal of Transnational American Studies Vol 9, No 2 (2022)
Publisher : Universitas Gadjah Mada

Crazy Rich Asians is regarded as one of the movies that successfully represented Asians, regardless of all the controversy. One of the topics clearly presented in the movie is the contestation between the west and east. The dichotomy is resulted from the social construction of the western culture to maintain its superiority over the east culture. Since the movie seems to celebrate the east by portraying the Asian-Asians differently from the old stereotypes or old images of the eastern culture, but at the same time, this research finds that this movie overtly portrays the west as loveable or likable culture. The movie depicts the contrast between east and west through the story. This article is intended to analyze the contestation between east and west which is depicted in the movie. The movie is examined in how it depicts America as the west and Asia as part of the east. Therefore, deconstruction is used as the reading method to see what is behind it, the things that are not seen, related to how the Asians are portrayed in the movie. The finding of this research shows that there are double roles in the movie. The power of whiteness in the American movie industry somehow still brings impacts toward the contestation of whiteness and color.

Gender Bias & Religious Discrimination: Positive Framing of News Report Coverage on Mauree Turner Erwanda Resti Chaerunnisa; Aris Munandar
Rubikon : Journal of Transnational American Studies Vol 9, No 2 (2022)
Publisher : Universitas Gadjah Mada

Mass media plays an important role in our lives and society to a greater degree. As a primary source of information that people tend to go for, the kind of information mass media provides matters. The problem is that every message we see in the media is constructed and that even texts like news reports are not entirely authentic. Previous studies have shown that news media do have their own tendency in writing their news reports, through which the minority communities are usually the ones to receive the short end of the stick. On that account, this study, through conducting critical discourse analysis, attempts to see the media framing in Mauree Turner’s 2020 Oklahoma state legislative election news reports and find an underlying motive behind such framing. The finding shows that in general, the media framed Turner positively in their reports and that this positive frame implies an inherent gender bias and religious discrimination within American society.

Local Community Initiative in Tackling Food Desert: Achieving Fair and Sustainable Transformation in South Memphis Safiera Nadya Nadya Utama; Asri Saraswati
Rubikon : Journal of Transnational American Studies Vol 9, No 2 (2022)
Publisher : Universitas Gadjah Mada

The issue of food desert (difficulty in accessing healthy food at affordable prices) is a phenomenon that has long plagued a number of regions in the United States. Uniquely, this issue has a close relationship with racism because the majority of the population living in food desert areas are its black population, such as the area of South Memphis, which in 2019, was nicknamed “The Hunger Capital of America”. This article aims to understand the design and implementation of solutions to the food desert issue in South Memphis using the lens of local food network and just sustainability concept. This study also aims to analyze how racial and class awareness are integrated into solutions formulated by local communities, considering that the majority of the population living in the food desert area are black and in the lower middle-class group. Related to the sustainable aspect of the just sustainability concept, this study will also evaluate how initiatives such as farmer’s markets and community kitchens in the form of non-commercial practices, can be an effective and sustainable solution to the food desert issue in the long term.

The Magic Role of Kim Nam Joon as a Leader of BTS in Conquering the American Market Iin Rachmawati
Rubikon : Journal of Transnational American Studies Vol 9, No 2 (2022)
Publisher : Universitas Gadjah Mada

Bangtan Sonyeondan or popularly known as BTS is a South Korean phenomenal group. The massive popularity of BTS all over the world cannot be separated from the magic role of their leader, Kim Nam Joon. This research tried to explore Kim Nam Joon’s role in regard to BTS's global popularity. This research used a qualitative descriptive method by using Khan, Nawaz & Khan’s leadership theories and styles as well as used Brown’s audience involvement approach to analyze the data. The result showed that there are four major reasons for Kim Nam Joon’s influence over BTS's success: Kim Nam Joon marked the beginning of BTS, Kim Nam Joon’s compassion and dedication, Kim Nam Joon’s powerful speech, and Kim Nam Joon’s leadership role towards teamwork. Moreover, there was also the fact that several non-BTS American fans tend to become ARMY after they knew about Kim Nam Joon’s leadership role. This is interesting because not all BTS’s fans become ARMY from enjoying BTS songs and performances.

Female Action Hero’s Superpower Representation: Audience Reception on Twitter in Disney’s Mulan (2020) Winda Nur Pratiwi; Fitria Akhmerti Primasita
Rubikon : Journal of Transnational American Studies Vol 9, No 2 (2022)
Publisher : Universitas Gadjah Mada

The live-action adaptation of the Movie Mulan produced by Walt Disney in 2020 sparked heated discussion from the audience after Disney tries to represent a strong female action hero by giving Mulan, the female protagonist, a superpower attribute called ‘chi’. In the era of new media, audience expressed their opinion through Twitter. Thus, the tweet responses and reviews on several websites were consecutively taken as primary and secondary data as it is an audience analysis research, applying feminist theory to examine the audience responses to the representation of female action heroes with a superpower. The research found that the majority of the audience, approximately 80%, falls into the opposition audience. They do not like the representation of Mulan with a superpower. On the other hand, less than 20% of audience fall into the dominant and negotiate audience. The high percentage of the oppositional audience indicates that the audience of the live-action Mulan would rather choose the representation of Mulan who came from a humble background instead of someone who was born great.

An Appraisal Analysis on Joe Biden’s Rhetoric of Gun Control Bagas Al Fajri; Zanuwar Hakim Atmantika; Galant Nanta Adhitya
Rubikon : Journal of Transnational American Studies Vol 9, No 2 (2022)
Publisher : Universitas Gadjah Mada

The recurring gun violence in the U.S. has been a prevailing issue for a long period. To tackle these, the government has implemented various policies and regulations. However, a transformation is nowhere to be seen. Having advocated for a change is Joe Biden, the president of the United States. In the light of recent unfortunate occurrences, Biden delivered a public speech that addressed this issue. This study aims to understand and thoroughly comprehend Biden’s speech using appraisal analysis, in which the elements of appraisal are used to classify the terms within Biden’s speech. This research uses qualitative methods, and it is concluded that it is clear from the performed research and supplementary data in the preceding sentence that Biden's speech contains a total of 37 evaluative items. 19 of these appraising items are positive, while 18 are negative. 19 of these appraising items are positive. This study found 12 findings for each of the appraisal parts of affect and appreciation, 7 findings of Judgment-social esteem and 6 findings of judgment-social sanction. Upon analyzing, it is found that Biden’s speech contains numerous meanings, some of which are how he is saddened by the unfortunate event, and subsequently advocates transformation on gun regulation in the future years. In conclusion, Biden’s position on gun issues as president of the U.S. is that the owner and the regulation, not the gun, are the issue.

A Study of the Individualism Accounts on American Literature through Reader Response Criticism Didik Murwantono
Rubikon : Journal of Transnational American Studies Vol 9, No 2 (2022)
Publisher : Universitas Gadjah Mada

This study is by no means a comprehensive account of individualism or more accurately, individualism, in America. It is intended to be more suggestive than comprehensive though it is characterized by more summery than controversy. Many ideas as well as some of the highlights of American manifestations of individualism and modes of individualistic thought and philosophy have been added. What follows, then, is merely a look at some of the high-water marks of literary American individualism and an attempt to offer some cursory explanations for this American phenomenon in theory and practice. This study was under an exploratory qualitative method supported by an interdisciplinary approach of American Studies. Reader-Response criticism is used to make perspective and interpretation without a doubt. The sample was 28 students taking the American Society and literature course at the Universitas Islam Sultan Agung Semarang. The completion of this research shows the students have creativity and freedom to express their innovation in learning American literature. The cornerstone of individual conscience has to be their credos for changing into a better life through the social, political, economic, and moral autonomy of each individual.

Understanding Life and Death Meaning through the Character of Edna Pontelier in Kate Chopin's The Awakening Elin Eprilin Fitrian Miela Putri
Rubikon : Journal of Transnational American Studies Vol 10, No 1 (2023)
Publisher : Universitas Gadjah Mada

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A character is a significant part in a tale who has its own personality or traits. Some variables, such as genes and environment, impact the development of a character's personality. Though Psychological approach, the researcher examines the personality development of the main character of Edna Pontellier in Kate Chopin’s The Awakening. From analyzing the character development, the researcher finds that the character of Edna Pontellier has changed and developed from being acceptance toward herself and her life to be rebellious in the search of her independence. The development of Edna’s character also changes the point of view of life and death. Edna feels happy, but in contrast, she feels something missing in her life. Edna feels that she does not belong to any community. She also feels that the world does not support her. That is one of the reasons why she chooses death as a way to find another happiness.

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Gedung R. Soegondo FIB UGM, JI. Sagan, Caturtunggal, Depok, Sleman, Yogyakarta 55281

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Daerah istimewa yogyakarta

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