Sabah Feminist Novelists: Views of Their Own
(Novelis Feminis Sabah: Sudut Pandangan Mereka)
Abstract
This paper scrutinizes five award-winning novels by five Sabah female writers and the issues of sexual discrimination, lack of opportunities, patriarchal hegemony and the negative perceptions of the body that plague Sabah Malay women. A discursive analysis of these issues is anchored upon a gynocritic feminist approach first introduced by Elaine Showalter in her famous essay entitled "Toward a Feminist Poetics" (Newton, 1997). The purpose of this study is to uncover the concept of the feminine "self" in the Sabah context through a thirty-year interrogation represented by these five female authors' novels and narrative styles, which include an exploration of their themes, language styles and poetics through the five novels entitled Malisiah by Obasiah Hj Usman (1986), Dari dalam Cermin by Azmah Nordin (1992), Gadis Adikara by Ruhaini Matdarin (2007), Pagi di Hujung Senja by Kathirina Susanna Tati (2013) and Helaian Linangkit by Dayangku Mastura Pg. Ismail (2016).
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Harun Mat Piah. (1981). Puisi Melayu tradisional: Satu perbicaraan genre dan fungsi. Jabatan Persuratan Melayu, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia.
Hashim Awang. (1986). Glosari mini kesusasteraan. Petaling Jaya: Penerbit Fajar Bakti.
Kathirina Susanna Tati. (2013. Pagi di hujung senja. Institut Terjemahan & Buku Malaysia.
Keohane, N., Rosaldo M.Z. & Gelpi, B.C. (eds.). (1982). Feminist theory: A crtitique of ideology. Signs. Autumn 1981, 332-339.
Makward, Christiane & Odile Cazenave. (1988). "The Others' Others: 'Francophone' Women and Writing." Yale French Studies, no. 75, 190–207, doi:10.2307/2930314.
Mana Sikana. (2006). Kritikan sastera Melayu moden. Penerbit Pustaka Karya.
Maniyamin. (2006). Gaya bahasa kiasan: Penggunaan dan keberkesanannya dalam sajak. Karisma Publication.
Maslida Yusof. (2000). Makna interpretif: Kes ironi bahasa Melayu. Dewan Bahasa, 44(12), 1239-1247.
Md. Sidin Ahmad Ishak & Mohd. Saleeh Rahamad. (1996). strategi bahasa: Panduan nahu dan retorik untuk penulisan. Penerbit Universiti Malaya
Moi, Toril (ed.) (1986). The Kristeva Reader. Columbia Universitiy Press.
Muhammad Haji Salleh. (1979). "Konsep Seni Sastera" in Ayob Yamin dan Hamzah Hamdani (Eds.), Penulisan kreatif (kumpulan esei dan ceramah). Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka.
Newton K.M. (1997). Elaine Showalter: 'Towards a Feminist Poetics' in Newton K.M. (Eds) Twentieth-Century Literary Theory. Palgrave. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25934-2_43
Norhayati Ab. Rahman (2012). Puitika sastera wanita Indonesia dan Malaysia: Satu bacaan ginokritik. Penerbit Universiti Sains Malaysia.
Nursuhaila Sulaiman, Sim Chee Cheang & Asmiaty Amat. (2019). Changing Narrative Landscape: Selected Sabah Short Stories from the 1980's to the New Millenium. Malay Literature, [S.l.], v. 32, n. 2, p. 239-256, dec. 2019. Date accessed: 07 july 2021. doi: https://doi.org/10.37052/ml.32(2)no4.
Obasiah Hj Usman. (1986. Malisiah. Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka.
Oliver, Kelly (ed.). (1997). The Portable Kristeva. New York: Columbia University Press.
Putu Krisdiana Nara Kusuma & Iis Kurnia Nurhayati. (2017). "Analisis Semiotika Roland Barthes pada Ritual Otonan di Bali". Jurnal Manajemen Komunikasi, 1(2), 195-217, April.
Rahimah A. Hamid. (2017). Proses kreatif sensitiviti dan kreativiti pengarang. Dewan Bahasa Pustaka
Ramli Isin. (1988). Berkenalan dengan novel. Fajar Bakti Sdn Bhd.
Register, Cheri. (1975). American feminist literary criticism: A bibliographical introduction in Josephine, Donovan (Ed.). Feminist literary criticism: explorations in theory. University of Kentucky.
Roudiez, S. Leon (trans.). (1982). Powers of horror: An abjection, by Julia Kristeva. New York: Columbia University Press.
Ruhaini Matdarin. (2007. Gadis Adikara. Cerdik Publications Sdn. Bhd. Kuala Lumpur.
S. Othman Kelantan. 1997. Pemikiran satira dalam novel Melayu. Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka.
S. Othman Kelantan & Abdullah Tahir. (2003). Sejarah kesusasteraan Melayu moden novel. Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka.
Safian Hussain et al. (1988). Glosari istilah kesusasteraan. Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka.
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Showalter, E. (1978). A literature of their own: British women novelists from bronte to lessing. Virago Press.
Sohaimi Abdul Aziz. (2014). Teori dan kritikan sastera (Edisi Kedua). Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka.
Showalter, E. (1982). Feminist criticism in the wilderness in Abel, Elizabeth (Ed.). Writing and sexual difference. University of Chicago Press.
Still, Judith. (1997). Horror in Kristeva & Bataille: Sex and Voilence. Paragraph. 20(3) November. 221-239.
Za'ba. (1965). Ilmu mengarang Melayu. Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka.
Published
2021-12-07
How to Cite
CHEANG, Sim Chee; OMAR, Fatin Najla.
Sabah Feminist Novelists: Views of Their Own.
Malay Literature, [S.l.], v. 34, n. 2, p. 257-280, dec. 2021.
ISSN 2682-8030.
Available at: <https://jurnal.dbp.my/index.php/MalayLiterature/article/view/8198>. Date accessed: 26 apr. 2024.
doi: https://doi.org/10.37052/ml34(2)no6.
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