Novel The Long Walk karya Stephen King memiliki muatan distopia dan abnormalitas. Distopia merupakan kondisi berlatar masa depan yang penuh dengan kehancuran. Untuk itulah, penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengungkap bentuk-bentuk distopia dan dampaknya dalam novel The Long Walk karya Stephen King. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah deskriptif kualitatif dengan data berupa dialog dan paragraf dalam novel The Long Walk. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan adanya kehidupan dehumanisasi, penyeragaman harapan, penggunaan propaganda sebagai kontrol masyarakat, serta adanya ideologi yang salah. Bentuk-bentuk distopia di atas yang pada akhirnya memicu perilaku abnormal para tokohnya, seperti mengidap skizofrenia, perilaku menyimpang hiperseks, dan pembunuhan massal berkedok perlombaan.

Penelitian ini dilatarbelakangi oleh adanya kesenjangan sosial yang kontras atau stratifikasi soial dalam novel Laskar Pelangi karya Andrea Hirata. Tidak sedikit simbol perlawanan kelas yang menonjolkan perjuangan kelas kaum bawah dalam menghadapi kaum penguasa di tengah masyarakat Belitong. Tema pertentangan kelas sosial dalam karya tersebut sekaligus sebagai cermin moral dan sosial masyarakat Belitong di era 1970-an. Menelaah novel Laskar Pelangi dari perspektif teori sastra Marxis diharapkan dapat mengungkap pertentangan kelas sosial yang keras dalam kelompok masyarakat Belitong. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif. Data penelitian ini berupa kalimat-kalimat deskripsi, narasi, serta dialog antartokoh di dalam novel. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa dalam novel Laskar Pelangi antara kaum borjuis dan proletariat. Strata kelas kaum borjouis adalah segelintir masyarakat yang bekerja pada PN Timah dan mayoritas bukan orang asli Belitong. Sementara itu, strata kelas kaum proletariat adalah masyarakat asli Belitong yang tidak memiliki kewenangan lebih dalam mengelola hasil timah di wilayahnya sendiri.

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui makna mitos relasi manusia dan tumbuhan dalam manuskrip Lontar Juwarsah. Penelitian ini menggunakan teori Semiotika Roland Barthes. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah metode deskriptif kualitatif dengan menggunakan model analisis semiotika Roland Barthes. Sumber data penelitian ini adalah manuskrip Lontar Juwarsah koleksi DREAMSEA yang diunduh pada tahun 2022. Hasil penelitian ini berupa pemaparan kode denotasi, kode konotasi, dan mitos relasi manusia dan tumbuhan dalam manuskrip Lontar Juwarsah. Relasi manusia dan tumbuhan dalam manuskrip Lontar Juwarsah menunjukkan bahwa tumbuhan memiliki kekuatan atau energi yang diperlukan oleh manusia.

Film Miracle in Cell No. 7 versi Indonesia merupakan adaptasi yang dibuat karena kepopuleran versi aslinya, yakni versi Korea. Adaptasi tersebut dibuat berdasarkan resepsi yang diterima oleh sutradara Hanung Bramantyo yang dipengaruhi sosial budaya dalam masyarakat Indonesia. Penelitian ini bertujuan mengkaji perubahan aspek sosiologi dalam adaptasi Miracle in Cell No. 7 versi Indonesia dan penyebab dari berbagai perubahan tersebut. Metode yang digunakan penelitian ini adalah metode deskriptif kualitatif. Data penelitian antara lain adegan pada kedua versi film yang mengandung aspek sosiologis dan teks-teks sosial historis yang berkaitan dengan latar belakang film Miracle in Cell No. 7 versi Korea dan versi Indonesia. Untuk menelaah data-data tersebut, penelitian ini menggunakan teori sosiologi sastra yang berfokus pada konsep sosiologi karya sastra. Berdasarkan penelitian yang telah dilakukan, maka diketahui bahwa perubahan pada adaptasi film Miracle in Cell No. 7 Indonesia didasari oleh perbedaan latar belakang dan tujuan pembentukan film. Selain itu, perubahan juga disebabkan oleh adanya perbedaan sosial dan budaya masyarakat pada negara Indonesia dan Korea.

This conceptual article aims to explore literary works through the perspective of Fredric Jameson. Literary works have legitimacy as a critical space for real problems, however, many of them also expose the author’s ideological side or reality. This is the political unconsciousness. This research approach is grounded theory because this exploration moves from the empirical realm to the theory-based realm in analyzing data. The data are in the form of quotation statements taken from relevant reference books, articles or journals. The data collection technique is documentation because this research is a type of library research. The analysis technique is thematic analysis. From the exploration results, it can be seen that Jameson sees a text as a symbolic act, resistant but reproducible to the dominant ideology. This is the condition of reification, in which the subject (writer and/character) is drowning to a process of totalization towards unconsciousness which is inherent in ideological power. This is the political unconscious which leads us to the unmasking of cultural artifacts (literary texts) as interpreted social symbolic actions

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menguraikan strategi produksi yang termaktub pada konstituen ekternal dan struktur ideologi teks yang ada pada konstituen internal dalam novel Perempuan Berkalung Sorban (PBS) karya Abidah El-Khalieqy dengan menggunakan konsep Terry Eagleton. Metode yang digunakan adalah kualitatif deskriptif. Hasil penelitian membuktikan bahwa (1) novel PBS telah melewati proses produksi material eksternal, dengan strategi sebagai berikut; pada masa reformasi, ideologi-ideologi dalam novel PBS telah menjadi buah artikulasi kekuasaaan. Untuk melewati sensor produksi yang ketat, pengarang mengangkat tema-tema romantisisme, humanisme serta pola sosial realisme dalam masyarakat pesantren yang dirangkai secara estetik oleh pengarang dalam PBS layaknya novel-novel populer pada umumnya. (2) Konstituen internal mengungkap struktur ideologi PBS berhubungan dengan insiden-insiden historis yang dimaksudkan sebagai kritik terhadap rezim kekuasaan, khususnya masyarakat komunal pesantren yang identik dengan ideologi patriarki. Ini dilakukan dengan langkah menegosiasikan ideologi subordinatif atau resisten, yakni feminisme, humanism, dan seksualisme terhadap ideologi dominan,ideologi patriarki yang konservatif dan represif pada tindak tanduk perempuan.Kata kunci: struktur ideologi;strategi produksi; Terry Eagelton[Production Strategy and Ideological Structure in Perempuan Berkalung Sorban] This study aims to describe the production strategy in the external constituents and the text’s ideological structure in the internal constituents in the novel Perempuan Berkalung Sorban (PBS), written by Abidah El-Khalieqy by using Terry Eagleton’s concept. The method used is descriptive qualitative. The results of the research prove that (1) the PBS has passed through an external material production process, by following strategies. During the reformation period, the ideologies in the PBS novel had become the articulation of power. To get past the strict censorship of production, the PBS’s author raises the themes of romanticism, humanism and social realism in the pesantren society which are arranged aesthetically by the authors in PBS like popular novels in general. (2) The internal constituents reveal the ideological structure of the PBS in relation to historical incidents which are intended to be a criticism on the regime of power, especially the pe-santren communal society which is identical to the patriarchal ideology. This is done by negotiating challenging ideologies, namely feminism, humanism and sexualism against the dominant ideology which is a patriarchal ideology that is conservative and repressive towards women's behavior.

Women's bodies as sexual objects are always in power relations. In Telembuk Dangdut dan Kisah Cinta yang Keparat, the characters of Diva and Mak Dayem are the representations of women's bodies as well as sexual objects in the power relation circle. This study aims to illustrate how women (Diva and Mak Dayem) compete with power by trying to make their bodies as sexual subjects in the novel Telembuk. The theory used in this study was the Power of Discourse theory proposed by Michel Foucault. According to the type of data, this study was a qualitative research. The data source was Kedung Darma Romansha’s novel Telembuk: Dangdut dan Kisah Cinta yang Keparat published in 2017. This study used discursive formation method to analyse the data. The results of this study were 1) the metaphysical body becomes the strategy of telembuk women to utter anti-power, 2) telembuk as a woman strategy to be a sexual subject.

Local wisdom is a source of knowledge and worldview of the people. However, modernity and its various developments, which are often perceived as a new value system that is superior to local values, pose a threat to its existence. This research aims to describe the local wisdom of Madurese and its existence in the modern era. This study used descriptive-qualitative method. The data source of this study was Zainul Muttaqin’s short story anthology Celurit Hujan Panas (2019). The data were collected by reading-taking note technique. The data analysis techniques included presenting data, reducing data, and drawing conclusions. The results of the study showed that Madurese local wisdom was more dominated by a number of sacred values with an emphasis on aspects of Madurese spirituality. Various local wisdoms must wrestled with themselves and external influences to stay afloat. In this modern era, Madura's local wisdom is on the verge of shifting, i.e. maintaining a number of noble values that have been passed on for generations or participating in the stream of modernization that prioritizes development and rationality

This article aims to reveal how the Korean-American male protagonist, describe as ‘Liyan’, is consumed by his white wife in Native Speaker by Chang-rae Lee’s (1996). This article argues that sexual acts committed against Henry Park by his white wife is manifested as a form of consumption towards ‘Liyan’. The theories use in this research are post-colonialism theory that is argued by Edward Said (2006) and consumption theory that is proposed by Bell Hooks (1992). This article uses descriptive analytical method. The data from the novel are described to obtain an overview of the construction of Korean-American masculinity. Later on the analysis it is found that in Native Speaker the stereotype construction towards Korean American man is not only puts Korean American man as inferior towards white masculinity, but also in the marriage relationship between Korean American man and white women

Identity is crucial in a person’s life. Diasporic identity is much more complicated because it involves at least two cultures. The focus of this paper is to analyze the diasporic identity of three generations of diasporic Chinese females as represented in Lian Gouw’s novel entitled Only a Girl. The data and supporting concepts are compiled using library research and close reading. The qualitative analysis is used to support the contextual literary analysis combining the intrinsic aspect focusing on the female characters and the extrinsic aspects concerning diaspora and identity. The results shows that each Chinese female character has tried to construct her own diasporic identity. However, the social, cultural, political, educational, and economic contexts play a great role in the struggles to construct the diasporic identity. It can be concluded that the younger the generation, the braver their effort to construct their diasporic identity and the braver their decision to take a distance with the big family house eventhough they have to face stronger and more complicated conflicts to realize and actualize their personal construction of diasporic identity.