The Image of Modern Woman in A.S. Laksana's Bidadari yang Mengembara Short Story

DOI

10.2991/icclas-17.2018.41How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Culture; Gender; Feminism Approach; Feminist Literary Critics

Abstract

This study focuses on the character analysis a masseuse whose name is Nita in "Bidadari Yang Mengembara" short story. It aims to show how Nita described as a modern woman but at the same time fits to the figure of a common traditional Javanese women. Qualitative method and feminist literary critics are used in this study. The findings reveal that as a modern woman, Nita dares to oppose the values that should be obeyed by women in general. However, the story also reveal that a woman cannot entirely escape from the general gender image which is in subordinate position.

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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/).

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