Image of Bali from Western Perspective in Jamie James' A Tale of Bali and Elizabeth Gibert's Eat, Pray, Love

Many foreign writers have expressed their fascination with Bali in their works, among them are Jamie James in Andrew and Joey: a tale of Bali and Elizabeth Gilbert in Eat, Pray, Love. The two authors wrote about Bali from their personal experience dring their stay in that island. Some images created...

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Main Authors: Seswita Seswita, Marliza Yeni
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universitas Andalas 2023-05-01
Series:Vivid: Journal of Language and Literature
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Online Access:http://jurnalvivid.fib.unand.ac.id/index.php/vivid/article/view/340
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description Many foreign writers have expressed their fascination with Bali in their works, among them are Jamie James in Andrew and Joey: a tale of Bali and Elizabeth Gilbert in Eat, Pray, Love. The two authors wrote about Bali from their personal experience dring their stay in that island. Some images created in the works are seen and analyzed through the prespective of Postcolonialism and New Criticism. This article presents how the two authors depicts Bali as an extravagant place in Eastern country which has adopted some Western values. The negative image is delivered to oppose the idea of Bali as the perfect island; moreover, as part of Indonesia, Bali still has some weaknesses to strengthen and truly support that it is part of Indonesia. The writer admits that this article is far from perfect. Due to the limitation of thinking and time, some more aspects can be explored more profoundly in terms of the image of Bali in these two works. Hence, there are still a lot of literary works that also talk about and discuss the image of Bali. Hopefully, there will be anyone who, willingly or even the writer himself, could continue the research and find out more about the images of Bali from the Western perspective as seen in some other novels and works.
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spelling doaj.art-06440ac209d44317a6366c4f992a4da02024-03-27T01:58:27ZengUniversitas AndalasVivid: Journal of Language and Literature2502-146X2023-05-0112110511010.25077/vj.12.1.105-110.2023216Image of Bali from Western Perspective in Jamie James' A Tale of Bali and Elizabeth Gibert's Eat, Pray, LoveSeswita Seswita0Marliza Yeni1Universitas AndalasUniversitas AndalasMany foreign writers have expressed their fascination with Bali in their works, among them are Jamie James in Andrew and Joey: a tale of Bali and Elizabeth Gilbert in Eat, Pray, Love. The two authors wrote about Bali from their personal experience dring their stay in that island. Some images created in the works are seen and analyzed through the prespective of Postcolonialism and New Criticism. This article presents how the two authors depicts Bali as an extravagant place in Eastern country which has adopted some Western values. The negative image is delivered to oppose the idea of Bali as the perfect island; moreover, as part of Indonesia, Bali still has some weaknesses to strengthen and truly support that it is part of Indonesia. The writer admits that this article is far from perfect. Due to the limitation of thinking and time, some more aspects can be explored more profoundly in terms of the image of Bali in these two works. Hence, there are still a lot of literary works that also talk about and discuss the image of Bali. Hopefully, there will be anyone who, willingly or even the writer himself, could continue the research and find out more about the images of Bali from the Western perspective as seen in some other novels and works.http://jurnalvivid.fib.unand.ac.id/index.php/vivid/article/view/340bali, western, images, new criticism, postcolonialism
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Marliza Yeni
Image of Bali from Western Perspective in Jamie James' A Tale of Bali and Elizabeth Gibert's Eat, Pray, Love
Vivid: Journal of Language and Literature
bali, western, images, new criticism, postcolonialism
title Image of Bali from Western Perspective in Jamie James' A Tale of Bali and Elizabeth Gibert's Eat, Pray, Love
title_full Image of Bali from Western Perspective in Jamie James' A Tale of Bali and Elizabeth Gibert's Eat, Pray, Love
title_fullStr Image of Bali from Western Perspective in Jamie James' A Tale of Bali and Elizabeth Gibert's Eat, Pray, Love
title_full_unstemmed Image of Bali from Western Perspective in Jamie James' A Tale of Bali and Elizabeth Gibert's Eat, Pray, Love
title_short Image of Bali from Western Perspective in Jamie James' A Tale of Bali and Elizabeth Gibert's Eat, Pray, Love
title_sort image of bali from western perspective in jamie james a tale of bali and elizabeth gibert s eat pray love
topic bali, western, images, new criticism, postcolonialism
url http://jurnalvivid.fib.unand.ac.id/index.php/vivid/article/view/340
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