Proceedings of the Second Conference on Language, Literature, Education, and Culture (ICOLLITE 2018)

The Life Potrait of Urban Society within O, the Novel by Eka Kurniawan

Authors
Yulianeta Yulianeta, Meistika Intan Utami
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Yulianeta Yulianeta
Available Online March 2019.
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10.2991/icollite-18.2019.81How to use a DOI?
Keywords
urban society; literature sociology
Abstract

Jakarta never fails to attract people attention as a representative of developed cities. Nevertheless, O the novel showed the contrast. It portrayed social polemic characters’ behavior to face or experience them. The present research aimed at describing the result of contemplation of the urban society life. Results showed that in the novel, the author represented a moment through the characters and setting which reflect urbanization phenomena, criminality, poverty, social gap, informal profession, apathy, and materialistic life style are some portraits of another side urbanites life in Jakarta. The representation was in accordance with the reality occurring in Jakarta recently.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the Second Conference on Language, Literature, Education, and Culture (ICOLLITE 2018)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
March 2019
ISBN
10.2991/icollite-18.2019.81
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/icollite-18.2019.81How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
Open Access
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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