Representations of Mother in Indonesian and European Literary Folktales

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.201230.015How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Mother, Social dimension – culture, Gender, Representation, Symbol

Abstract

Folktales are texts which have always been presented through generations. If literary texts are considered as social-cultural reflections and representations, the themes contained in folktales can surely become references which may be interpreted differently, in accordance with the time conditions of the people reading them. One interesting theme to discuss is the presence of mother characters in various texts of Indonesian and European folktales. This paper focuses on the mother characters in several folktales from Indonesia and Europe. Qualitative research method, theories of narratology and semiotics, and psychoanalysis concepts are used to analyze those texts. The data presents mother characters in various statuses, either as biological mother, stepmother, or acting mother. There are parallel ideas that become common threads of the stories. Mothers in those various tales become the characters that move the stories. In this case, mother characters will be analyzed from several aspects: in symbolic space contexts, from gender perspective, and in East and West social-cultural dimensions.

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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  - Iswahyudi Soenarto
AU  - Joesana Tjahjani
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/12/31
TI  - Representations of Mother in Indonesian and European Literary Folktales
BT  - Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Folklore, Language, Education and Exhibition (ICOFLEX 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 71
EP  - 77
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201230.015
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.201230.015
ID  - Soenarto2020
ER  -