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STATE OF EXCEPTION THROUGH RASISME IN GO SET A WATCHMAN IN AGAMBEN’S POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY Damay Rahmawati; Ramadhani Ardianto Karsa Sunaryono; Mira Utami
Bahtera: Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa dan Sastra Vol 20 No 2 (2021): Bahtera: Jurnal Pendidikan Bahasa dan Sastra, Volume 20 Nomor 2 Juli 2021
Publisher : Program Studi Pendidikan Bahasa Program Pascasarjana Universitas Negeri Jakarta

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This study aims to see racism in the novel Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee as state of exception; a political philosophy of Agamben. Agamben's idea of ​​state of exception is used in this study as the theoretical framework. This research specifically reveals how racism becomes part of state of exception in American society around 1960s when the novel was written. The analysis focuses on issues of racism in American society as depicted in the novel. The issue of racism is taken with the aim of analyzing state of exception in USA, in dealing with racial discrimination. After analyzing the issues of racism and state of exception in the novel, this study reveals that racism in American society is politically structured. The finding of this study is the discrimination experienced by lower class citizens who are dominated by black people, as the impact of state of exception which affects their citizenship rights.
“DORA BRUDER” AS AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WRITING OF PATRICK MODIANO Mira Utami
FRASA: English Education and Literature Journal Vol. 1 No. 2 (2020): Vol 1 No 2 Tahun 2020
Publisher : Universitas Duta Bangsa Surakarta

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Trauma become a part of memory in human’s life in regard with past. The form oftrauma as an emotional scar inside an individual can follow the heirs, reflected in the life oflater generations. It also happens in literature, as a way to unconsciously share the traumaticevents, as the result of author’s memories. Dora Bruder is a novel by Patrick Modiano whichis written as the way to release the experience of diffculties in the past that likely become histrauma. This research will describe the condition of Dora Bruder as an autobiographicalnovel of Modiano because it is happened to share the same difficulties, such as a bad-termrelationship with family and lost family members. The research is based on theory of Memoryby Anne Whitehead and Postmemory by Marianne Hirsch.