The Survival of Faith in Solzhenitsyn’s One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and “Matryona’s House”

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

Historicizing Muslim American Literature: Studies on Literature by African American and South Asian American Muslim Writers

In response to the challenge of understanding Muslim Americans in a way that highlights their integral role in the United States through literature, this research starts with two questions: 1) how should we read Muslim American literature in relation to the lived experiences of Islam in America? and 2) how does Muslim American literature contribute to the more mainstream American literature. To answer those questions, this research takes as its foundations the theories by Stuart Hall and Satya Mohanty on, firstly, the evolving nature of diaspora identity and on the epistemic status of identity. Following Hall’s argument that every expression of art is also a reformulation of identity, artistic expressions by Muslim Americans are parts of Muslim American identity. Following Mohanty’s argument of the epistemic status of identity, literature by Muslim Americans can help us see the lived and intellectual experiences of Muslim Americans. Inspired by Fredric Jameson’s argument for historicizing a literary work and interpret it against its historical background, this research discovered that the at the core of the Muslim American literary works selected for this research lie political causes that underlie the aesthetic of Muslim American literature. For African American Muslim literature, such underlying historical spirit is the tension between ‘asabiyya (or peoplehood and community building among African Americans) and ummah (or the sense of belonging to the global Muslim community). This spirit, I argue, manifests in Marvin X’s Land for My Daughters and Murad Kalam’s Night Journey. Meanwhile, for works by South Asian American Muslim writers, the historical spirit lies in the tension between the essentialist view of identity and the acceptance of American identity. This tendency manifests in different ways in the Wajahat Ali’s The Domestic Crusaders and Ayad Akhtar’s Disgraced. The discussions on literary works by African American and South Asian American Muslim writers here highlight the collective concerns that underlie the literary works by the two different demographic groups. In doing so, the research places Muslim American literature as a political niche in American literature. This tendency of being political makes Muslim American literature align more with works from marginal cultural communities

Kajian Geologi Lingkungan untuk Pengembangan Kawasan di Desa Pacarejo, Kecamatan Semanu, Kabupaten Gunungkidul, Yogyakarta

Aspek geologi lingkungan dalam rencana pengembangan suatu kawasan adalah aspek yang penting untuk dipertimbangkan.  Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengkaji parameter geologi lingkungan, khususnya airtanah dan batuan, untuk mendukung pengembangan kawasan Desa Pacarejo, Kecamatan Semanu, Kabupaten Gunungkidul berdasarkan pada tiga parameter yaitu kedalaman muka air tanah, nilai Total Dissolved Solid (TDS) air tanah dan jenis tanah dan batuan. Pengambilan data kedalaman muka air tanah dilakukan dengan melakukan pengukuran kedalaman muka air tanah pada sumur gali  dan data kualitas air tanah diambil bersamaan dengan menggunakan instrumen pengukuran hanameter. Pengambilan data tanah dan batuan dilakukan melalui  pemetaan tanah dan batuan daerah penelitian. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan zonasi kedalaman muka air tanah meliputi dua zonasi yaitu zona mampu dengan kedalaman sedang yaitu 6-20 m dan kurang mampu dengan nilai kedalaman tinggi yaitu >20 m. Penyebaran kualitas air tanah berupa Total Dissolved Solid (TDS) meliputi dua zonasi yaitu zona sangat mampu dengan nilai 20 m), material permukaan berupa tanah-batuan dan nilai TDS air tanah rendah (20 m), material permukaan tanah residu dan nilai TDS air tanah sedang (300-600 mg/L)

PENGARUH PENGGUNAAN JEJARING SOSIAL FACEBOOK TERHADAP KARAKTER NASIONALISME SISWA KELAS XI IPS SMA NEGERI 1 KENDAL SEMESTER GENAPTAHUN 2014/2015

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Change is Needed: What’s in Common between Assia Djebbar’s “Children of the New World” and Sahar Khalifeh’s “Wild Thorns” in Portraying Their Home Countries?

Assia Djebbar’s Children of the New World and Sahar Khalifeh’s Wild Thorns seem to be involved in a parallel fights. However, it is not immediately clear their attitude in the fight. To answer this question, I employed Bakhtin's concept of dialogue and multi-voicedness (carnivalesque) to understand the novels' meaning and the role of ideology in cultural artifacts. Jameson's political unconscious, particularly the second horizon (social) is utilized to analyze what the novels potentially respond to. The descriptive comparative method is employed to examine the distinct features and themes of each work. From the data analysis, I discovered that there is indeed a parallel in the resistances waged by both novel. In Wild Thorns, the theme of dead ends and desperate actions faced by Palestinians is explored, encompassing economic, gender, and resistance-related struggles. The novel highlights the need for radical societal transformation. In Children of the New World, the shift from domestic to public relationships during the Algerian war of independence is depicted. The novel emphasizes steadfastness, confrontation, and departure as forms of resistance, urging a break from limiting domestic bonds. In the final analysis, the paper argues that both novels offer unique perspectives on resistance and challenge conventional narratives. They demand a reevaluation of various aspects of resistance and advocate for comprehensive societal change

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