A Critical Discourse Analysis of Gender Discrimination on Ratih Kumala’s Gadis Kretek Novel
- Keywords
- gender discrimination, javanese culture , patriarchal system, Sara Mills
- Abstract
This paper presents the text analysis on gender discrimination toward the role of woman in Ratih Kumala’s Gadis Kretek Novel. The novel was published in 2012. It tells about the history of cigarette industry in Indonesia. The Javanese culture on the novel reflects the patriarchal system in life of Javanese. The text analysis is based on Sara Mills’ critical discourse analysis model. The study includes an analysis of subject-object position and reader position of the text. The gender discrimination is based on inequality of gender stated by Faqih, namely gender and subordination, gender and stereotype, gender and violence, gender and workload, gender and marginalization. The result shows that in Ratih Kumala’s Gadis Kretek, women become the second class in Javanese culture. The patriarchal system adopted by the Javanese, gives the man the authority towards the woman. The public role is dominated by the men and women are only allowed to be in the domestic role. Women are being marginalized in this novel. The female writer unconsciously did gender biased in her literature work. The gender biased expressions in this novel reinforce the patriarchal system adopted in the society.
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- © 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Diana Hardiyanti AU - Yunita Nugraheni AU - Sumarlam Sumarlam PY - 2018/11 DA - 2018/11 TI - A Critical Discourse Analysis of Gender Discrimination on Ratih Kumala’s Gadis Kretek Novel BT - Proceedings of the International Seminar on Recent Language, Literature, and Local Cultural Studies (BASA 2018) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 167 EP - 172 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://www.atlantis-press.com/article/25906085 ID - Hardiyanti2018/11 ER -