The Act of Silencing in Robert Musil’s “Tonka”
Modernism’s overemphasize on universal objectivity as well as its optimistic humanism have generated critical questions. The critics on modernism, labeled under the name of postmodernists, question the neutrality assumed by humanist universalism and scientific objectivism. Seeing the ugly sides of e...
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Jurusan Bahasa Inggris Politeknik Negeri Padang
2020-10-01
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| author | Harfiyah Widiawati Lambok Hermanto Sihombing Aris Masruri Harahap |
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| description | Modernism’s overemphasize on universal objectivity as well as its optimistic humanism have generated critical questions. The critics on modernism, labeled under the name of postmodernists, question the neutrality assumed by humanist universalism and scientific objectivism. Seeing the ugly sides of enlightenments, the modernist critics begins to see modernism “as deeply implicated by forms of oppression: sexism, racism, class-ism, colonialism”. The purpose of this paper is to analyze a modernist work from the view point of postmodernism. The work that is under discussion here is “Tonka” by Robert Musil. Within the story, we can see that a form of oppression appears. We are to find how the form of oppression within the story works. It is interesting to find that the oppression works through the act of silencing. To see how silence is interwoven in the story, we have to firstly set some limitation to make possible the discussion on silence itself. The easiest way to do it is by putting the entity in a binary opposition since the text strongly shows binary organization. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e9f8feff5f3c487ea9c3bc099ac69eb12022-12-21T21:29:21ZengJurusan Bahasa Inggris Politeknik Negeri PadangJournal Polingua: Scientific Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Education2252-47972020-10-0192485310.30630/polingua.v9i2.144118The Act of Silencing in Robert Musil’s “Tonka”Harfiyah Widiawati0Lambok Hermanto Sihombing1Aris Masruri Harahap2Pusat Kajian Daerah dan Anggaran, Sekjen DPD Republik IndonesiaPresident UniversityPresident UniversityModernism’s overemphasize on universal objectivity as well as its optimistic humanism have generated critical questions. The critics on modernism, labeled under the name of postmodernists, question the neutrality assumed by humanist universalism and scientific objectivism. Seeing the ugly sides of enlightenments, the modernist critics begins to see modernism “as deeply implicated by forms of oppression: sexism, racism, class-ism, colonialism”. The purpose of this paper is to analyze a modernist work from the view point of postmodernism. The work that is under discussion here is “Tonka” by Robert Musil. Within the story, we can see that a form of oppression appears. We are to find how the form of oppression within the story works. It is interesting to find that the oppression works through the act of silencing. To see how silence is interwoven in the story, we have to firstly set some limitation to make possible the discussion on silence itself. The easiest way to do it is by putting the entity in a binary opposition since the text strongly shows binary organization.http://polingua.org/index.php/polingua/article/view/144silencemodernismpostmodernismoppression |
| spellingShingle | Harfiyah Widiawati Lambok Hermanto Sihombing Aris Masruri Harahap The Act of Silencing in Robert Musil’s “Tonka” Journal Polingua: Scientific Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Education silence modernism postmodernism oppression |
| title | The Act of Silencing in Robert Musil’s “Tonka” |
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| topic | silence modernism postmodernism oppression |
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