Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Languages and Arts (ICLA 2017)

Session: Literature Studies

10 articles
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Lingual to Visual Transformation of Hujan Bulan Juni

Dini FAISAL, Utami Dewi PRAMESTI, Yulianti RASYID
Hujan Bulan Juni was first published as a poem in 1994, and later in 2013 a short comic with similar title was created by a comic artist. This paper analyzes similarities between the poem, which is in lingual form and the short comic, which is in visual form. The purpose of this research is to understand...
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Mothers Parenting Pattern to Her Son in Minangkabau Legend Malin Kundang: A Sociological Study

Harris Effendi THAHAR
This study aims to describe and interpret the form of mothers parenting pattern to her son in Minangkabau legend, Malin Kundang. The data resource of this research is Malin Kundang legend who lives in the Minangkabau cultural area, not only the one transcribed into a book (kaba), but also that in the...
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Social Functions of Traditional Minangkabau Expression: Local Knowledge and Wisdom in Speech

Hasanuddin W.S., Emidar EMIDAR
This paper contains a discussion of the social function of traditional Minangkabau expressions. The traditional Minangkabau expressions is spoken using the figure of speech language. The use of traditional Minangkabau expressions by speakers of their opponents is a knowledge and local wisdom in speak...
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Women's Rejection toward Patriarchy Culture: A Feminism Study in Selected Indonesian Novels

Yasnur ASRI
The focus of this study is on the form and the motif of women rejection toward the product of patriarchy culture. Method of the research is descriptive-analysis by taking data sources from six selected Indonesian novels. The purpose of this study is to describe the form and the motif of women's rejection...
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Bundo Kanduang in Minangkabau Novels in the Old Order

Irfani BASRI, Ellya Ratna, Zulfikarni ZULFIKARNI
The aim of this research is to describe the role and position of Bundo in Minangkabau novels which written in old order and new order. The specific purpose is to describe the facts, traits and relationships between the phenomena investigated systematically, factually, and accurately. This qualitative...
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Emblems of Gender Case Study to Indonesian Novel

Asmawati ASMAWATI
This study aims to describe gender emblems that reflected in Indonesian novel in the time before and after The Indonesian Independence day. There are four gender emblems that reflect in Indonesian novel through socio-literature study and using literature-feminism approach. First, gender banner of novel...
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Women's Rebellion towards Patriarchal Culture in Latest Indonesian Novels

Yasnur ASRI, Yenni HAYATI
This article aimed to expose the portrayal of women's rebellion inthe latest Indonesian novels through characters description. Method of the research was content analysis method to interpret literary works trough certain perspectives. Data of the study were collected from selected latest Indonesian novels...
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Deconstruction Analysis: The Ideas of Keeping Tradition in "No Witchcraft for Sale" by Doris Lessing

Putri Ayu REZKIYANA
A short story of Doris Lessing's "No Witchcraft for Sale"tells about a native African named Gideon working for a missionary family the Farquars. This shows how the relationship between the master and the servant go on and also how the natives are treated. The story is related to the postcolonial reading...
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The Structure of Indonesian Fiction before and after Period of Reform in Indonesia

M. Ismail NST, Bakhtaruddin NST, Zulfadhli ZULFADHLI
Paper is discuss about literature development in Indonesia specific prose structure from early period 1990 to 2016. Period divided is two part, that is: before the reformasi period, termed the orde baru period (1990-1997) and after the reformasi period (1998-2016). Wellek and Warren (1995) states that...
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The Economic Strength in Minangkabau Oral Literature

Khairil ANWAR
This paper discusses economic power in Minangkabau oral literature. The case is the oral literature bagurau. Oral literature consists not only of text, but also of context. The text and context contain economic power, which drives the oral literature and wheels of the collective economy of its audiences....