ABSTRAKKerumunan Terakhir  karya Okky Madasari dan Bless me Ultima karya Rudolfo Anaya bercerita tentang peranan perempuan dalam menjaga alam. Di dalam Kerumunan Terakhir, Okky Madasari membandingkan kehidupan perempuan di puncak gunung dan di kota besar. Mirip dengan Okky Madasari, RudolfoAnaya juga menggambarkan kehidupan yang harmonis antara alam dan perempuan yang diwakili oleh Ultima di dalam Bless Me Ultima. Ultima tidak hanya memelihara alam, juga menggunakan alam untuk menyembuhkan penyakit. Tujuan penelitian ini adalah untuk melihat bagaimana perempuan di representasikan sebagai “Mother Earth” dalam dua novel tersebut. Dengan metode Pembacaan secara heuristik dan hermenuetik serta menggunakan pendekatan ekofeminis dan teori sastra bandingan, representasi perempuan sebagai mother earth dianalisa dan diinterpretasikan sesuai dengan konteks dimana representasi itu muncul. Dari hasil pembahasan nampak adanya persamaan  antara novel Kerumunan Terakhir dan novel Bless Me Ultima dalam merepresentasikan mother Earth.  Si Mbah dan Ultima adalah mother earth yang menggunakan alam sebagai tempat belajar tentang kehidupan bagi manusia.Kata kunci: pendekatan ekofeminis, mother earth, representasi, kritik sastra bandingan ABSTRACTKerumunan Terakhirwritten by Okky Madasariand Bless me Ultima written by Rudolfo Anaya tell the story of  women in protecting nature. In Kerumunan Terakhir  Okky Madasaricompares the lives of women at the top of a mountain and in a big city. Similar to Okky Madasari, Rodolfo Anaya also describes the harmonious life between nature and woman represented by Ultima in Bless Me Ultima. Ultima does not only preserve nature, she also uses nature to cure illness. Using the heuristic reading method and applying the basic principles of ecofeminism about gender equality and the close relationship between women and nature, this paper tries to see how women are represented as mother earth in Indonesia and in the United States contained in these two novels. By using an ecofeminism approach and a comparative literary theory, the representation of women as mother earth will be analyzed and interpreted according to the context in which the representation appears.Keyword: ecofeminism approach, mother earth, representation, comparative literature

Tari Muang Sangkal ialah sejenis tari penyambutan bagi tamu agung yang mulanya hanya dapat ditarikan di pendopo atau keraton di Sumenep. Kata Muang Sangkal dalam Bahasa Madura berarti membuang musibah, sial ataupun hal-hal buruk lainnya. Dalam artikel ini akan dibahas makna verbal yang terdapat dalam tembang pengiring Tari Muang Sangkal, dengan menggunakan teori perkembangan tari oleh Sedyawati dan mengaitkannya dengan teori makna verbal serta metode penelitian deskriptif kualitatif. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian, ditemukan bahwa dalam pantun yang dinyanyikan pada tembang pengiring Tari Muang Sangkal terdapat makna verbal berupa suatu ungkapan hati penyair mengenai kisah cintanya yang tidak atau belum mendapatkan respon atau tanggapan dari lelaki pujaannya, walaupun ia telah mengungkapkan perasaannya tersebut secara gamblang.

The study discusses the effects of the abuse experienced by David's character in David Pelzer's A Child Called It and The Lost Boy. The theory applied is psychological theory about child abuse and the research method applied is qualitative research by Blaxter. Based on the research, it is found that the effects of the above abuse that David experienced were flashback through nightmares, the feeling of insecure and frightened, low self esteem and inferior feeling, difficulties to trust others and develop friendliness, and deteriotating school performance. Besides, David had deviant actions (stealing), obstacles to understand and receive love and/or properness, and emotional control disorder.

Impian Amerika by Kuntowijoyo tells stories of Indonesian immigrants who came to New York City with different reasons and backgrounds. They settle, move, go to school, work, and live in the United States-especially around the New York City area. There are Javanese, Achenese, Batak, Manado, Sundanese, Minangs, Makassarese, and others. There are various reasons why they decide to settle in this city, but the majority is for advancement, prosperity, and freedom. Some continue their education or study in the United States because of the more advanced education system. Some chose to work as long as they can go and settle in United States because the country is more prosperous than Indonesia. Other chose the United States because they want to be free and adventurous. In addition, this novel also presents ethic problems between Indonesians and other citizen due to multidimensional relationships and the daily lives of Indonesians. The purpose of this study is to scrutinize how the American Dream is understood by immigrants, especially immigrants from Indonesia. This work used qualitative research method and data was collected from Kuntowijoyo's Impian Amerika. The data was analyzed qualitatively using Marxist literary approach. The result of the study shows that Kuntowijoyo's Impian Americas hows how material success is not automatically followed by spiritual success. As an ethos, the American Dream is able to offer people to come to America to migrate, work and live there forever and promise that anyone can succeed by working hard regardless of family and social background but American dream can also mislead someone or immigrant if he does not have a strong religious and moral basis.