LESBIANISM AS PORTRAYED IN JEWELLE GOMEZ’S SHORT STORY “DON’T EXPLAIN”

SEKAR YOLANDA AZZA, NIM. 12150005 (2016) LESBIANISM AS PORTRAYED IN JEWELLE GOMEZ’S SHORT STORY “DON’T EXPLAIN”. Skripsi thesis, UIN SUNAN KALIJAGA.

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ABSTRACT The work under this discussion is a short story entitled “Don‟t Explain” by Jewelle Gomez. It tells about lesbian love life in 1959, Boston, America. The lesbian character is struggling to survive in heterosexual norms. Lesbian issues become a sensitive and controversial issue since a long time ago. The writer chooses lesbian issue because this is a kind of human discrimination. The writer uses library research with descriptive qualitative method to finish this research. The theory that is applied in this research is queer theory and post-structuralism as paradigm. The writer focuses on lesbian characters‟ dialogues and narrations from the narrator as the primary data. This research aims to reveal the portrayals of lesbian characters in Jewelle Gomez‟s short story and why the portrayals are in such a way. As a result of the analysis the writer found the portrayals lesbianism can be seen from Letty, Delia, and Terry. They hide their love feeling and their love relationship. There are no portrayals about sexual activities between lesbian because their process to fall in love and forget their broken heart is same as other humans. This is not provocative short story. In “Don‟t Explain” lesbians also human who have feeling of love. Keywords: Lesbian, Don‟t Explain, Queer Theory, Heterosexual Norms ABSTRAK Karya sastra yang diulas dalam skripsi ini ialah cerita pendek berjudul "Don't Explain" karya Jewelle Gomez. Cerita pendek ini menceritakan tentang kisah cinta lesbian di Boston, Amerika pada tahun 1959. Karakter lesbian berjuang untuk hidup dalam norma heterosexual. Masalah tentang lesbian menjadi isu yang sensitif dan controversial sejak waktu yang lama. Penulis memilih lesbian isu karena ini adalah salah satu jenis diskriminasi manusia. Penulis menggunakan studi pustaka dan metode qualitatif deskritif untuk menyelesaikan penelitian ini. Teori yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah teori queer dan poststrukturalism sebagai paradigma. Penulis befokus pada dialog karakter lesbian dan narasi yang disampaikan narator sebagai data utama. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengungkapkan refleksi dari karakter lesbian di cerita pendek Jewelle Gomez dan kenapa gambaran tersebut bisa seperti itu. Sebagai hasil analisis, penulis menemukan gambaran lesbian dari karakter Letty, Delia dan Terry. Mereka menyembunyikan perasaan cinta dan hubungan percintaan mereka. Tidak ada gambaran tentang hubungan seksual antara lesbian dalam cerita pendek ini karena proses mereka untuk jatuh cinta dan melupakan patah hati sama dengan manusia lainnya. Ini bukan cerita pendek yang propokatif. Dalam “Don‟t Explain” homoseks wanita juga manusia yang mempunyai rasa cinta kasih. Kata Kunci: Lesbian, Don‟t Explain, Teori Queer, Cerita Pendek, Norma Hetero

Item Type: Thesis (Skripsi)
Additional Information: Danial Hidayatullah, S.S, M.Hum.
Uncontrolled Keywords: Lesbian, Don‟t Explain, Queer Theory, Heterosexual Norms, Lesbian, Don‟t Explain, Teori Queer, Cerita Pendek, Norma Hetero
Subjects: Sastra Inggris
Divisions: Fakultas Adab dan Ilmu Budaya > Sastra Inggris (S1)
Depositing User: Sugeng Hariyanto, SIP (sugeng.hariyanto@uin-suka.ac.id)
Date Deposited: 23 Nov 2016 08:34
Last Modified: 23 Nov 2016 08:34
URI: http://digilib.uin-suka.ac.id/id/eprint/21069

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