Gabriel fajar sasmita aji

• Lecturer at Sanata Dharma University

Rumah Kaca, or House of Glass, is the last episode of Pramoedya’s Tetralogy of Buru, and it gives “a surprise,” or a shocking end of Minke’s postcolonial strives. Here, he died several days after his coming home from exile. This looks surely to present the catastrophe of the native’s postcolonial hope and dream. The strategy of the colonial governm...

Dunia paradigma dan perspektif keilmuan pada masa kini sedang dalam “kekacauan” lewat kehadiran bermacam terminologi, seperti posmodernisme, pasca kebenaran (post truth), disrupsi, dan juga poshumanisme. Masing-masing membentuk pusarannya sendiri-sendiri dan seolah-olah masing-masing memiliki legalitas dan kebenarannya untuk muncul sebagai eksisens...

VS Naipaul, the Nobel Prize Winner on Literature, in 2009, appears to present his Caribbean’s voice. However, his status also stimulates a conflict with his ancestry people, especially about the concept of postcolonial home. This phenomenon seems applicable to almost all VS Naipaul’s works, since those works’ tone about Trinidad, his ancestry colon...

VS Naipaul has a specific way in delivering ideas through his literary works, because almost all his works apply the first person, the I character, point of view. He seems to really realize the bad conditions of the colonized and the highly better ones of the colonizer. In those works VS Naipaul is very skilful in rendering those two contrasted con...

VS Naipaul has a specific way in delivering ideas through his literary works, because almost all his works apply the first person, the I character, point of view. He seems to really realize the bad conditions of the colonized and the highly better ones of the colonizer. In those works VS Naipaul is very skilful in rendering those two contrasted con...

Abstract — Myth is about hegemony’s nostalgia, referring to the past, and postcolonialism is about abolishing hegemony, referring to the future. This strict notion is violated by Walcott’s Omeros, the epic of Caribbean postcoloniality. Its term of epic establishes its myth identity, and its postcoloniality emphasizes the future destiny for the Cari...

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl is one of the most popular childrens novels. This novel talks about the adventure of five children who have the opportunity to pay a visit to the most famous chocolate factory in the world, Wonkas. This study aims to reveal Wonkas personality disorder as well as the cause of the disorder. The first ob...

30 September was published by Yogyakarta’s media, “Kedaulatan Rakyat” in 30 Septermber 2012. The title is politically attractive since it is due to the Indonesian collective memory about the horror of 30 September 1965 incident in Jakarta. From the perspective of the media, the date of publication is also in accordance with the day of the memory re...

Omeros adalah karya Derek Walcott, seorang penerima Hadiah Nobel Bidang Kesusastraan tahun 1990, dan di sini terungkap bagaimana masyarakat atau bangsa Karibia mencoba menata diri dalam membangung identitas kebangsaannya. Latar belakang masyarakat Karibia sangat unik, yakni sebagai masyarakat poskolonial yang terdiri atas beragam etnik dan tidak me...

Modernity in fact covers not only physical things, which are clearly able to be seen, but also ideological ones, which are hidden. 30 September, written by Maria Magdalena Bhoernomo, is one of the examples or models of those of the second option. It is just a short story, published by Kedaulatan Rakyat in Yogyakarta, but behind it readers could upl...

“New World” is to deconstruct the paradigm owned by the European explorers of Caribbean. It is the ideology of Caribbean postcolonialists. Omeros, by Derek Walcott, and The Enigma of Arrival, by VS Naipaul, mounted it as an establishment of identity and contestation against the colonial hegemony. Each underwent a strategy, especially in adapting Eu...

The rapid development of CULTURAL STUDIES as a "new discipline" is closely related to the progress of postmodernism. It may even be considered the real product of the era. Postmodernism opens the paradigm of mini narratives instead of grand narratives, and cultural studies applies the paradigm that "culture" is not an abbreviation of "high culture"...