Ruth Young and her widowed mother, LuLing, have always had a tumultuous relationship. Now, before she succumbs to forgetfulness, LuLing gives Ruth some of her writings, which reveal a side of LuLing that Ruth has never known. . . . In a remote mountain village where ghosts and tradition rule, LuLing grows up in the care of her mute Precious Auntie as the family endures a curse laid upon a re…
At the center of this invigorating novel are two unlikely friends, Archie Jones and Samad Iqbal. Hapless veterans of World War II, Archie and Samad and their families become agents of England’s irrevocable transformation. A second marriage to Clara Bowden, a beautiful, albeit tooth-challenged, Jamaican half his age, quite literally gives Archie a second lease on life, and produces Irie, a kno…
In a narrative that moves with dreamlike swiftness from India to England to Africa, Nobel Laureate V. S. Naipaul has produced his finest novel to date, a bleakly resonant study of the fraudulent bargains that make up an identity. The son of a Brahmin ascetic and his lower-caste wife, Willie Chandran grows up sensing the hollowness at the core of his father's self-denial and vowing to live mo…
Topik utama penelitian ini adalah hubungan stereotipe dan maskulinitas perempuan yang diteliti berdasarkan kajian terhadap tokoh utama dalam novel Moana karya Suzanna Francis. Penelitian ini dilakukan terhadap unsur intrisik: tokoh, latar, konflik, ironi, dan simbol, serta unsur Ekstrinsik: gender, maskulinitas-feminitas, steoreotip dan kekerasan simbolik. Menggunakan metode analisis deskripti…