International Journal of English Literature and Culture
 

International Journal of English Literature and Culture

Vol. 4(6), pp. 108-114, July, 2016

 ISSN: 2360-7831

DOI: 10.14662/IJELC2016.047

Review paper

Religiosity Reception of Feminism Ideology Texts

SAMAN, TARIAN BUMI, GENI JORA, and NAYLA

Suyitno

Department of Bahasa Indonesia Education, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education, Sebelas Maret University, Jl. Ir. Sutami 36 Surakarta Phone/Fax (0271) 648939, Central Java, Indonesia. E-mail: yitsuyitno52@gmail.com

Accepted 23 July 2016

Some experts considered Indonesian people were "new" to the topic of feminism. In fact, many literatures proved that feminism has long existed in Indonesia. As the biggest Moslem country in world and a country which gives priority to it, how religiosity viewed feminism in Indonesia is important. This study discussed how religiosity viewed feminism in Indonesia. Four Indonesian novels considered as feminism ideology based novel that was Saman, Tarian Bumi, Geni Jora, and Nayla were the objects of this study. This study used 25 informants as the subject of the study who read, interpreted, and received religiously the novel based on their own perspective. The result of this study showed that the readers did not receive religiously well some of the novels and the disparity level of religiosity acceptance of the novel were different among the readers.

Keywords: reception, religiosity, feminism, dominance, patriarchal.

Cite This Article As: Suyitno bin Kowi (2016). Religiosity Reception of Feminism Ideology Texts SAMAN, TARIAN BUMI, GENI JORA, and NAYLA. Inter.  J. Eng. Lit. Cult. 4(6): 108-114

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