Research Article
The Alienating Job of the Female Protagonist in Hsi Hsi’s Short Story Entitled A Woman Like Me
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.13-8-2019.2290205, author={Ratna Asmarani}, title={The Alienating Job of the Female Protagonist in Hsi Hsi’s Short Story Entitled A Woman Like Me}, proceedings={Proceedings of the First International Conference on Culture, Literature, Language Maintenance and Shift, CL-LAMAS 2019, 13 August 2019, Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia}, publisher={EAI}, proceedings_a={CL-LAMAS}, year={2019}, month={12}, keywords={alienation; semiotics; social and psychological life; contextual method}, doi={10.4108/eai.13-8-2019.2290205} }- Ratna Asmarani
Year: 2019
The Alienating Job of the Female Protagonist in Hsi Hsi’s Short Story Entitled A Woman Like Me
CL-LAMAS
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.13-8-2019.2290205
Abstract
The aim of this paper is to analyze the peculiar job of the female character in the short story entitled A Woman Like Me written by Hsi Hsi, a Taiwanese female writer. The focus of the analysis is on the social and psychological life of the female character that is deeply alienated by her unusual job. Contextual method of analysis is used to analyze the data from the feminist literary perspective. This method is a combination of intrinsic elements, focusing on the character, conflict, and setting, and extrinsic elements using the concepts of alienation and semiotics done from the female perspective. The result shows that due to her unique job, the female character is alienated from her friends and her love-life. Her unusual job also affects her perspective in seeing her surroundings.
