Research Article
Postcolonial Journey in Maggie Tiojakin’s Kota Abu-Abu Short Story
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.8-9-2020.2301399, author={Endang Suciati}, title={Postcolonial Journey in Maggie Tiojakin’s Kota Abu-Abu Short Story}, proceedings={Proceedings of the First International Conference on Communication, Language, Literature, and Culture, ICCoLLiC 2020, 8-9 September 2020, Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia}, publisher={EAI}, proceedings_a={ICCOLLIC}, year={2020}, month={10}, keywords={postcolonial journey migrant border}, doi={10.4108/eai.8-9-2020.2301399} }- Endang Suciati
Year: 2020
Postcolonial Journey in Maggie Tiojakin’s Kota Abu-Abu Short Story
ICCOLLIC
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.8-9-2020.2301399
Abstract
This article explores the image of society in Maggi Tiojakin’s Kota Abu-abu short story. The city described has only one color, ‘grey’. This condition makes the society have different views. In terms of postcolonial journey by Upstone, it is considered as a border, a colonial construction. By applying descriptive qualitative method, this short story is analyzed to know the efforts of the society to find freedom and happiness by crossing the border. The result of the analysis shows that the society cross the border by postcolonial journey. The main character is doing continues journey in the form of migrant serial to cross the border, however, ironically she is not happy. Some of the society are satisfied to live in such kind of border but the rest of them are not. It indicates that the society in Tiojakin’s short story are living in colonial construction related to the border.