Article
Makna 3 Mitos Perempuan Papua pada Novel Isinga: Roman Papua Karya Dorothea Rosa Herliany
LE PARIS: Journal de Langue, Litterature, et Culture, Vol. 4 No. 2 (2023), hlm. 63–78
Abstrak
The novel Isinga is a modern Papuan romance that reveals the story of women in Papua. Isinga in Papuan means woman or mother, which is still rarely studied. This study aims to describe three myths of Papuan women in the Novel Isinga: Papuan Romance by Dorothea Rosa Herliany. This type of research is classified as a literature study research with a qualitative descriptive method and Roland Barthes' semiotic approach. The data in this study are in the form of myths in the novel. The results of the study show that the meaning of the three myths of women in the novel Isinga: Papuan Romance, namely (1) calves as a symbol of beauty, (2) Papuan women live to work, (3) pigs as a sign that women have been proposed to. The meaning of the myth in this novel is formed from power; society naturalizes it as an ideology that needs to be maintained even though they depoliticize it according to need.