POSTCOLONIAL MELANCHOLY AND FEMINIST AESTHETICS IN SITI RUKIAH’S 1950 NOVEL KEJATUHAN DAN HATI: A SUBVERSIVE TENDERNESS
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https://doi.org/10.14421/ajbs.2025.090204Kata Kunci:
Estetika feminis , melankolia pascakolonial, sastra Indonesia, subjektivitas perempuan, resistensiAbstrak
Artikel ini meninjau kembali Kejatuhan dan Hati (1950) karya Siti Rukiah Kertapati sebagai karya mendasar namun terabaikan dalam modernitas sastra Indonesia. Berbeda dari narasi revolusioner nasionalis yang maskulin pada masanya, novel ini mengekspresikan melankolia pascakolonial melalui interioritas emosional, kehilangan intim, dan krisis subjektivitas perempuan. Dengan menggunakan analisis tekstual kualitatif yang berlandaskan naratologi feminis dan teori pascakolonial, penelitian ini menelaah bagaimana bentuk epistolari dan fragmentaris Rukiah membangun interioritas feminin yang menolak ideologi nasionalis dan patriarkal. Analisis ini mengacu pada kritik Chandra Talpade Mohanty dan Trinh T. Minh-ha tentang pembungkaman gender untuk menafsirkan fragmentasi psikologis Susi sebagai bentuk resistensi afektif dan epistimologis. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa Rukiah mentransformasikan kerentanan dan melankolia menjadi agensi politik, menempatkan emosi sebagai ruang makna historis. Teknik naratifnya—fragmentasi, introspeksi, dan kejujuran afektif—menentang heroisme maskulin realisme sosialis dan menghadirkan kelembutan sebagai estetika feminis yang radikal. Artikel ini juga menelusuri penerimaan kritis novel tersebut, dari marginalisasi awal hingga penilaian ulang oleh Annabel Teh Gallop dan Yerry Wirawan. Sebagai arsip afektif dari kekecewaan pascakolonial dan resistensi feminin, Kejatuhan dan Hati tampil sebagai imajinasi politik tentang kebangsaan melalui emosi yang berperspektif gender.
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