Partir, a novel by a francophone writer, Tahar Ben Jelloun tells about a Marocco man, Azel, who has a strong willingness to go out of his country. One of the countries he visited is Spain. Compared to other countries, Spain is the closest to Tangier, the city where Azel comes from. This paper aims to analyze the identity of immigrants as represented by Azel, the main character of Partir, by using  a postcolonial approach. Azel’s relationship with Miguel, as the representation of the West, shows that there is a sharp distinction concerning the view that the West is the superordinate, and the East, as the subordinate. Even though the colonialism period has been over, the domination of the West over the East has been still going on under different levels of periods.        Key words: immigrant, identity, colonialism, superiority.

The wave of industrial revolution 4.0 influences almost all aspects of every life, covering the fishermen’s activities. In order to survive in global competition, traditional fishermen must work hard, fast, smartly, and appropriately to increase production. However, the existence of taboos and local beliefs that has been considered as a device of maintaining environment may become obstacle of their activities. The study aims to identify the influence of the taboos and beliefs controlling the Fisheries Community in North Coast of Central Java on their daily activities to survive as well as to develop their environment. Data on the research are the narrative of the respondents regarding the taboos and beliefs they have listened. Data are gathered through deep interview of six respondents from three fishing areas, those are Demak, Kendal, and Semarang. Using critical discourse analysis approach, the researchers found that local taboos influence their perception that certain natural phenomena are controlled by spirits, so that some bad events happened to the community may be interpreted as consequences of violating the taboos. The beliefs construct by the governed by the unseen power rather than usual phenomena. This gives impact to the way they develop their environment.

Paper ini berisi tentang analisis praksis wacana yang dilakukan oleh masyarakat nelayan di Pantai Utara Jawa Tengah dalam merepresentasikan dan menunjukkan sikap tentang pantangan yang ada di daerah tersebut. Tujuan penulisan topik tersebut adalah menjelaskan bahwa melalui praksis wacana yang dilakukan,  masyarakat mengkonstruksi fakta sosial tentang pantangan, nilai-nilai apa yang mempengaruhi konstruksi tersebut, dari mana sumber pantangan tersebut, dan bagaimana sikap mereka terhadap pantangan tersebut. Penelitian kulaitatif ini menggunakan tiga informan dari kawasan nelayan di Semarang, Demak, dan Kendal. Data berupa teks yang diperoleh berdasarkan metode wawancara terbuka dan metode naratif. Dengan menggunakan ancangan analisis wacana kritis, penulis menemukan bahwa tiga pantangan besar, yakni (i)  jangan melaut di hari meninggal orang tua, (ii) jangan berbicara yang aneh-aneh pada waktu melaut, dan (iii) jangan melakukan hal aneh-aneh di tempat tertentu, masih hidup di tengah masyarakat nelayan. Pantangan tersebut disebarkan dan dipertahankan melalui agen sosial, yakni individu-individu yang pengetahuan dan sikapnya dipengaruhi oleh nilai-nilai yang percaya oleh masyarakat tersebut, baik secara homoglos maupun heteroglos. Tidak ditemukan sumber pantangan yang pasti, tetapi hanya berupa cerita perseorangan yang didengar secara bersinambung. Sikap masyarakat yang percaya bahwa pantangan masih ada dan harus dipatuhi ditemukan dalam praksis wacana mereka yang menghubungkan setiap kejadian yang berbeda dengan pengetahuan bersama (shared knowledge) mereka.

The approach of literary sociology is one of the literary approaches that specialize in the study of literary works taking into account social aspects of society. Mubalig Kondang [1] is interesting to study because it tells how the author's expression of the religiosity problem that existed in the society of the Javaneses antri (students of traditional Islamic boarding school in Java) in particular, as well as Indonesia in general. Pengajian (mass teaching of Islam in the village) that becomes the habits and traditions of the santri community as well as the symbol of the author's heart disclosure. Pengajian is a common religious ritual around us still a kind of 'thing' that could be questioned. The religious ritualisonly a compensation of some people who are from the complexity of the problem.