Kartini on Screen: Narrating Kartini as Feminist Agent

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.201230.018How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Agency, Feminism, Kartini, Movie, Narrative Analysis

Abstract

Kartini is a national heroine that inspires Indonesian women. Her heroism is presented in lots of mediums: schoolbooks, history, stories, and movies. This research aims to explore the construction of Kartini ideological characterization in movies. To do so, it employs a qualitative method. Two recent Kartini biopic movies Surat Cinta Untuk Kartini (SCUK) (2016) and Kartini (2017) were selected as research objects. Through documentation techniques and employing Tzevetan Todorov concept of narrative structure, this study identified two issues in patriarchy resistance by Kartini in the two research objects: education and marriage. Vladimir Propp’s character narration analysis was implemented on those two issues within the movies to explore the feminist ideology of Kartini characterization. The analysis result from both movies demonstrated different narration structures. SCUK (2016) started the narration with equilibrium, while Kartini (2017) started with disruption. The Kartini feminist agency in both movies was presented differently. In SCUK (2016), it was dominantly presented by disequilibrium narration of Suwardi’s character. Meanwhile in Kartini (2017), it uses disequilibrium narration of Kartini character itself. As a conclusion, both movies implied liberal feminism ideology as agency characterization of Kartini character. These results implicated insight for narrating Kartini agency as well understanding it.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Ahmad Jum’a Khatib Nur Ali
AU  - Robingah
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/12/31
TI  - Kartini on Screen: Narrating Kartini as Feminist Agent
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Folklore, Language, Education and Exhibition (ICOFLEX 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 90
EP  - 95
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201230.018
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201230.018
ID  - Ali2020
ER  -