CITRA PEREMPUAN CINA PERANAKAN DALAM KESUSASTRAAN MELAYU TIONGHOA: KAJIAN SOSIOLOGIS BERPERSPEKTIF JENDER
Abstract
This study aims at describing the profile and the changing image of the
female Chinese descendants in literature.The study employs the qualitative
method. The objects of the study include three novels written by the Chinese
authors, namely Lo Fen Koei by Gouw Peng Liang, Oey Se by Thio Tjin
Boen, and Nonton Capgome by Kwee Tek Hoay. The theoretical approach
employed is the sociology of literature that presupposes the close relationship
between literature the social realities underlying the creation of the work. The
data are collected by means of library research and note-taking technique
and are analyzed by means of descriptive and hermeneutic techniques. The
outcome of the study shows the following conclusions: (1) In addition to reflecting
the social realities, the authors also respond and criticize the social
realities underlying the creation through the structural elements of the works;
(2) the three novels that were written in two different periods indicates the
dynamics in the Chinese community, particulalrly the dialectics between the
Chinese traditional values and the Western modern ones; and (3) the three
novels also demonstrate the struggle for gender justice resulting in the changing
image of the female Chinese descendants from being subordinate to relatively
equal to male.