Ideological Narration in Chudori’s Pulang and Laut Bercerita: A Žižek Perspective in Literary Analysis

Abstract

Problem of ideology in Žižek’s perspective is on the practice of subject. Subject can be out of ideological manipulation which has radical action to ruin the ideological domination. It is what Chudori narrates in Pulang (Going Home) and Laut Bercerita (Sea Tells). Those novels narrate a radical movement against the ideological state that dominates them. To reach the result, hermeneutic technique of analysis is used. It results that Pulang and Laut Bercerita narrate a movement to ruin the totalitarian government. It is relevant to the historical facts of how the totalitarian government in Indonesia was ruined. By adding some hidden facts that are untold in general narration, this analysis explains ideological narration of struggle against the totalitarian control in Chudori’s perspective.

Key Words: Narration, Ideology, Subject, Žižek

DOI: 10.7176/JLLL/54-08

Publication date:March 31^st 2019