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The Survival of Faith in Solzhenitsyn’s One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and “Matryona’s House” Wawan Eko Yulianto
kata Vol 21 No 1 (2019): JUNE 2019
Publisher : The English Department, Faculty of Humanities & Creative Industries, Petra Christian University

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Faith is a vital element in the works of Nobel laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn, a Russian writer who experienced the notorious Gulag and difficultly in a strongly atheistic country. However, faith is never a simplistic topic for Solzhenitsyn, especially writing in a time when religion was officially shoved aside from the public discourse. In the light of a set of views on religion inferred from Terry Eagleton’s essay, this paper aims to explain the anomalous religiosity as seen in the narrators of Solzhenitsyn’s novel One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and short story “Matryona’s House.” According to the Eagleton’s model, there are three stages of religiosity, namely, 1) omission of religion’s otherworldly and pure ritualistic elements, 2) acceptance of mentally-empowering potentials of religion, and 3) internalization of the humanistic values of religion. The analysis concludes with a notion that One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and “Matryona’s House” represent an evolution of faith that has gone through a period of challenge. On a sidenote, the analysis also confirms the dialogic nature of Solzhenitsyn’s works, in which one topic is presented through contradictory voices.
BETWEEN THE SA’ALIK AND THE EARLY MUSLIMS: A JAMESONIAN READING ON LAMIYYAT AL-ARAB Wawan Eko Yulianto
PARADIGM: Journal of Language and Literary Studies Vol 3, No 1 (2020): Paradigm: Journal of Language and Literary Studies
Publisher : English Letter Department, Universitas Islam Negeri Maulana Malik Ibrahim Malang

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This article aims to propose a possible answer to the curious case of the popularity of Lamiyyat al-Arab as a means of education among Muslim leaders during the Umayyad era. The curiosity lies in the fact that Lamiyyat al-Arab is attributed to al-Shanfara, who was reportedly a su’luk, an outcast in the society who was also known as a brigand poet. To answer the curiosity, I conducted a literature review on who the sa’alik are and how they share some vision with early Muslims. This exploration makes up the first part of the essay. The second half of the essay is a textual interpretation on Lamiyyat al-Arab guided by the three horizons of interpretation as proposed by Fredric Jameson. Looking at three different horizons of meaning, textual, social, and historical, I strongly hope that the interpretation offer a glimpse into the desire for change that the poem shares with the early Muslims. This constitutes as a possible answer to the curious popularity of the pre-Islamic poem among early Muslims. 
American Dervish and Green Card: “Unexpected Passengers” in the Diaspora Literature? Wawan Eko Yulianto
Alphabet: A Biannual Academic Journal on Language, Literary, and Cultural Studies Vol 2, No 1 (2019)
Publisher : Universitas Brawijaya

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The term diaspora has evolved in its use from referring only to the Jewish diaspora to referring to communities around the world that have spread beyond their cultural and historical homelands. The contemporary definition of the term includes what used to be the peripheral elements in the diaspora, i.e. the unexpected passengers in the diaspora vessel. In this article, I propose to ask about 1) how literary works by recent diaspora groups (non-Jewish diaspora groups) can be categorized as diasporic literature, and 2) what themes related to the diaspora experience they bring to the table. The study explores two works, i.e. American Dream by Ayad Akhtar, an American writer of Pakistani descent, and Green Card by Indonesian writer Dani Sirait. In the first work, American Dervish, one can find themes from post-9/11 Pakistani diaspora life in the United States with the special focus on the critical view of the diaspora community. Meanwhile, Green Card presents the story of an Indonesian man trying his luck as a migrant worker while maintaining his strong belief that his struggle in the foreign land matters more than his actual succeed in the pursuit. While having different causes for the spread of the communities to which the characters of the two works belong, both works appear to see the United States as the land of opportunity, the destination of the diaspora. These two works represent two cases of probably the most recent cases of unexpected passengers in the diaspora literature.
Teaching English on TikTok: Content Analysis Based on Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning Irene Puspita Wijaya; Wawan Eko Yulianto; Daniel Ginting
EDUCAFL : Journal of Education of English as Foreign Language Vol 6, No 2 (2023): EDUCAFL (LIST OF ACCEPTED PAPER)
Publisher : Fakultas Ilmu Budaya, Universitas Brawijaya

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TikTok has been used as a learning tool and effectively improved students’ knowledge and skills, particularly in language learning. However, the educational content on TikTok may not be compatible with the Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning (CTML) principles that could reduce cognitive loads in multimedia learning. This research investigated the use of CTML principles, as well as the use of its features on the videos from one of the popular English Teaching channels on TikTok, @englishvit in order to contribute to educational knowledge about teaching practices with social media technologies. The researchers analyzed 40 out of 175 videos from @englishvit using content analysis through decontextualization, recontextualization, categorization and compilation. This study found that @englishvit’s TikTok videos are compatible with at least three principles of CTML, and some TikTok features could increase the compatibility or violate the CTML principles. These results recommended that teachers in digital education should improve the quality of the learning experience for students by applying principles of CTML and utilizing technology.