| Summary: | Teenlit as a part of popular literature is chosen for research with the aim of
describing 1) picture of teen characters in Teenlit novels, 2) the forms of tenenage
characters meaning in popular culture novels.
The objects of this study are four Teenlit novels. they are, 0yDrean My
Friends by Ken Terate publoshed by Gramedia in 2005, Glam Girls by Nina
Ardianti published by Gagas Media in 2008, Beauty and the Best by Luna
Torashyungu published by Gramedia in 2010, and Girls by Dienda Sarteka
published by Mizan in 2010. Technique of data collection used is library research.
the four novels were analyzed by semiotic analysis method of Roland Barthes.
Based on results of this research showed that the manifold teenlit, is
described teenagers are on popular lifestyle trend as seen from the descriptions of
identity adolescents in the novel. First, youth in transition societies described as
popular individuals who experience puberty, which is beginning to have a sense of
love towards the opposite sex. Popular teen represented as a dynamic individual
who is shown through their own intelligence as a form of self-existence, which
represented a hobby as an arena of expression, and the presence of love as
influences popularity problems. Second, the pattern of adolescent friendship, the
presence groups or gangs represented as a survival strategy, as well as the presence
of scandal and gossip tendencies that are often encountered in adolescent friendship
patterns represented as a consequence of popularity.
In addition to revealing picture of adolescent in teenlit, the fourth novel also
reveal show adolescents make sense of popular culture, through adolescence
metropolitan lifestyle that characterized the consumption patterns of adolescents
such as shopping at the mall, a teen trendsetters and have a career related to the
popular world as social capital in their relationships. The pattern of consumption in
adolescents experienced, indicate the change of lifestyle as a form of adaptation
which is characterized by the appearance of a symbolic form of representing a
popular teenager.
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