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THE AUTHOR’S WORLD VIEW OF WOMEN IN THE NOVEL BURIAL RITES BY HANNAH KENT: A GENETIC STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS

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This research aims at analyzing the writer’s world view of women in the
novel Burial Rites by Hannah Kent based on Goldmann’s Genetic Structuralism
theory. This research uses qualitative method to reveal the world view of Hannah
Kent about women. Descriptive qualitative research is used in order to analyze
certain principal attachment between the primary and secondary data. The primary
data is the Novel Burial Rites. Meanwhile, the secondary data are other sources
that have relation to the primary data. They are consists of several previous
studies related to the primary data: the sociological history of Icelandic, and the
socio-background of Hannah Kent. The result of this research shows that Burial
Rites is a medium to campaign the women’s liberation as the Liberal Feminism
has been talked about it. Through the Goldmann’s dialectical method that used in
this research, they are three indicators which influence the world view of Hannah
Kent about women: 1) The structure of the novel Burial Rites. The novel Burial
Rites tells about a female central character named Agnes with her relation with the
objects around her which degenerated from the homological structure of Kent’s
society and the novel itself; 2) The social genesis of the novel Burial Rites or the
social structure of Icelandic society. The historical side of Icelandic society and
the world view of the Australian society have affected Hannah Kent to formulate
her world view and pours it into the novel; and 3) The socio-background of
Hannah Kent. Kent is the Collective subject that mirroring the structure of her
society and write the novel that homologically structured. Based on those three
aspects, this research shows that the world view of Hannah Kent about women is
Liberal Feminism.

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BSI- 2022- SUC t

Publisher

Makassar : FAH. Adab & Humaniora UIN ALauddin., 2022

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viii,71 hal; 30cm

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English

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BSI- 2022- SUC t

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Women
Liberal Feminism

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