Representation of Gender Inequality in the Novel Perempuan yang Menangis kepada Bulan Hitam by Dian Purnomo (Critical Discourse Analysis)

Abstract

Women are often a marginalized and biased position compared to men's positions by a gender. This research aims to describe the position of women in Dian Purnomo's novel Perempuan yang Menangis kepada Bulan Hitam based on Sara Mills' critical discourse analysis model. This research is a qualitative research with descriptive method. The research data is in the form of narratives and speeches of characters or a combination of sentences based on the context that states the form of representation of gender inequality in Dian Purnomo's novel Perempuan yang Menangis kepada Bulan Hitam. The data source is Dian Purnomo's novel Perempuan yang Menangis kepada Bulan Hitam, published by PT Gramedia Pustaka Utama, second printing, in May 2021 and totaling 320 pages. The data collection technique used in this research is documentation technique. Data analysis technique used qualitative data analysis, namely data reduction, data presentation, and drawing conclusions. The results of this study indicate that the main character Magi Diela based on the critical discourse analysis of the Sara Mills model experiences gender injustice. Magi Diela experiencing gender inequality is positioned as a subject with 15 data, object position 74 data, and 19 data reader position. Magi Diela is positioned as a subject because she can tell herself, an event or events according to her own perspective. Magi Diela is positioned as an object, because she cannot present herself in the text, but her presence is defined and described by another party, namely the author. Readers position themselves to Magi Diela as a woman who becomes a victim of marriage and arrest based on mediation factors and cultural code factors. Magi Diela, her position as the object is more dominantly represented as experiencing gender injustice, especially gender inequality of violence.