DISTORSI KAPITALIS TERHADAP AMERICAN DREAMS DALAM CERPEN MISS U.S.A, EMMA KNIGHT KARYA STUDS TERKEL
), (1) FBSS Universitas Negeri Padang
Indonesia
Corresponding Author
Copyright (c) 2017 Lingua Didaktika: Jurnal Bahasa dan Pembelajaran Bahasa
DOI : https://doi.org/10.24036/ld.v3i1.7368
Full Text:
Language : id
Abstract
This paper discusses ‘Miss USA, Emma Knight’, a short story written by Studs Terkel. The analysis of the story reveals how the industries of capitalism through the discourse of beauty contest has distorted the meaning of American Dreams in order to gain and accumulate as much profit as possible. Miss Universe Incorporated, as the representation of the capitalist in this analysis, has in such a way intimidated and exploited ‘its worker’, Emma Knight, the beauty queen of Miss USA to overwork nights and days, as if she were a money machine. However, at the same time, this beautiful intelligent queen, whose personal meaning of American Dreams differs from those of the mainstreams’, takes the opportunity of being a queen to show her own meaning of the dreams. Thus she takes her responsibilities of being Miss USA on her own terms.
Keywords
References
Habermas, J. 1988. Letigimation Crisis, Cambridge Oxford: Polity Press,
Heilbroner, R.L. 1991. Hakikat dan Logika Kapitalisme, (terjemahan), Jakarta: LP3ES,
Lerner, R.E., 1988. Western Civilization, Volume 2, New York-London: W.W. Norton & Company.
Marx, Karl. 1848. The Communist Manifesto. Trans Samuel Moore, diakses pada tgl. 20 Februari 2010 http://www.anu.edu.au/polsci/marx/classics/manifesto.html
Srinati, Dominic. 2007. Popular Culture. Trans Abdul Mukhid. Yogyakarta: Jejak
Article Metrics
Abstract Views : 574 times
PDF Downloaded : 154 times
Refbacks
- There are currently no refbacks.
Copyright (c) 2017 Lingua Didaktika: Jurnal Bahasa dan Pembelajaran Bahasa
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
