Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Language, Literature and Education, ICLLE 2019, 22-23 August, Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia

Research Article

‘BRAND NEW IDENTITY: A GYNOCRITICAL READING OF ENTROK & AMBA

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  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.19-7-2019.2289538,
        author={Asri  Y and Hayati  Y and Adek  M},
        title={‘BRAND NEW IDENTITY:  A GYNOCRITICAL READING OF ENTROK \& AMBA},
        proceedings={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Language, Literature and Education, ICLLE 2019, 22-23 August, Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia},
        publisher={EAI},
        proceedings_a={ICLLE},
        year={2019},
        month={11},
        keywords={identity of women gynocritics contemporary novels},
        doi={10.4108/eai.19-7-2019.2289538}
    }
    
  • Asri Y
    Hayati Y
    Adek M
    Year: 2019
    ‘BRAND NEW IDENTITY: A GYNOCRITICAL READING OF ENTROK & AMBA
    ICLLE
    EAI
    DOI: 10.4108/eai.19-7-2019.2289538
Asri Y1,*, Hayati Y1, Adek M1
  • 1: Faculty of Languages and Arts, Universitas Negeri Padang, Indonesia
*Contact email: yasnurasri5@gmail.com

Abstract

Contructed identity about women has passed down from generation to generation in common Indonesian literature is feminine. However, contemporary Indonesian women writers through their works these days has been trying to reconstruct this given identity with something new in accordance with recent reality and current experience. In the view of Gynocritics, woman by herself have rights and abilities to assemble their identity without having to be dictated by the society, and regardless of whether the identity is admissible or not. The material objects of this research were Okky Madasari’s Entrok and Laksmi Pamuntjak’s Amba. In achieving the purpose of the study to reveal the novelty values about the life and identity of women, it is conducted through Gynocritism reading along with content analysis techniques. From the results of the analysis, women authors tries to construct new identity for women which is more credible and balanced for women. This reconstruction is intended to leave the old formed identity that is no longer relevant to the progress of the world of women today.