This paper aims to find the representation of feminism in the film Samjin Company English Class (2020). This film was written by Lee Jong-pil and set in 1995. This film tells the story of three girlfriends working for eight years in a large company in South Korea. Even though they have worked for a long time, the three of them are still treated differently. This film shows how female employees who only graduated from high school are able to prove their strengths by figuring out some cases of company waste leakage and corruption committed by company officials. They also fight for equal rights in their work. Their efforts, struggles, and courage are finally not in vain. The method used in this paper is a descriptive method. This research uses Roland Barthes’ semiotic theory to analyze the representation of feminism in the film. Signs and meanings are analyzed through some scenes and dialogues in the film showing the struggles of the three friends. The result of this research is the finding of 13 scenes that represent feminism which can be seen from the female characters’ struggle to grab their dreams.

Tulisan ini bertujuan untuk menunjukkan hasil kegiatan Pengabdian kepada Masyarakat (PkM) Fakultas Sastra dan Bahasa UKI yang berfokus pada pemanfaatan media sosial Instagram dalam pembelajaran bahasa Inggris pada siswa English Club SMPN 163, Jakarta, pada periode Agustus s.d. November 2022. Instagram digunakan sebagai media untuk mengevaluasi pemahaman siswa/I terhadap materi pembelajaran yang diberikan pengajar setiap minggunya. Bentuk penugasan yang diberikan beragam, mulai dari membuat poster, video, esai singkat, bahan presentasi, dan kartu ucapan, yang disesuaikan dengan tema-tema mingguan, dan dilakukan baik secara mandiri maupun kelompok. Dari evaluasi pembelajaran yang disebar melalui Google form, terdapat 52 responden yang terdiri dari 33 responden perempuan dan 19 responden laki-laki. Hasil survei menunjukkan lebih dari 90% responden merasakan manfaat penggunaan Instagram dalam proses pembelajaran Bahasa Inggris, baik dalam hal meningkatkan keterampilan teknis (hard skill) maupun keterampilan non teknis (soft skill). Keterampilan teknis yang diperoleh berkaitan dengan keterampilan bahasa Inggris baik lisan maupun tulisan dan keterampilan dalam membuat dan mengedit poster dan video, sedangkan keterampilan non teknis yang diperoleh berkaitan dengan kreativitas dan kemampuan untuk bekerja sama di dalam tim. Hasil evaluasi juga menunjukkan lebih dari 80% peserta English Club merekomendasikan dilanjutkannya pemanfaatan Instagram dalam proses pembelajaran bahasa Inggris mendatang.    Kata Kunci: English Club; Instagram; keterampilan teknis dan non teknis

Taking a title of his first novel Home to Harlem (1928), Claude McKay as the implied author seems to bring the perception of his readers to a standpoint saying that Harlem was a final destination for blacks in the early 20th century, the time setting of the novel. Paradoxically, the novel gives a twisted ending by letting both of the main black characters in the novel, Jake and Ray, leave Harlem because of different reasons. This article aims to show a deferred meaning of "Home to Harlem" in the novel as well as to find the hidden aim in the novel. This research will use Derrida's theory about deconstruction and differance concept. The result shows that the text seems to deconstruct a myth about Harlem as the mecca of the New Negro. The meaning of home in the novel has deferred into a space inhabited by a familiar in which one can find needs of physical, intellectual, mental, and emotional security. A decision to leave Harlem chosen by both of main characters in the novel is a symbol that Harlem cannot be the best representative of African American's home enabling to meet all of blacks' needs of racial equality in the early twentieth century.

This article aims to show the postcolonial discourse of the Philippines through the utilization of magical realism in the novel When the Elephants Dance (2002) by Tess Uriza Holthe. When the Elephants Dance is intrinsically structured into four main sections which describe the events leading up to Japan’s surrender. Inside these four sections, the story is integrated with five sub-stories from accompanying characters which are A Cure for Happiness, Mang Minno, Ghost Children, The Twilight People, and The Portrait of an Aristocrat. These sub-stories act as one of the highlights of the novel since they are utilized by the characters as a way to retain their sanity and cope with the tragic experiences of living in the middle of a war. The characters’ coping mechanism of telling their life stories that are filled with Filipino mythology reflects the postcolonial discourse of the Philippines prior to and during World War II. With the research limitation of analyzing the story of Mang Minno, this research will use the theory of magical realism by Wendy B. Faris to see the presence of magical realism, as well as the utilization of New Historicism as a bridge to analyze the postcolonial discourse. The results show that by integrating magical realism and history, Holthe was successful in depicting historical events that occurred in the Philippines under the fictional aspect of the novel. Holthe used magical realism to conceal the postcolonial discourse of alterity and emphasize the magnificence of Catholicism in the Philippines.