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A. BACKGROUND OF STUDY
Young-adult fiction is fiction written for, published for, or marketed to adolescents and young adults, roughly ages 14 to 21. The majority of YA stories
portray an adolescent as the protagonist, rather than an adult or a child. The subject matter and story lines are typically consistent with the age and experience
of the main character, but beyond that YA stories span the entire spectrum of fiction genres. YA novels are often as short as 16000 words. YA shares the
fundamental elements of fiction with other stories: character, plot, setting, theme, and style.
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YA novels currently in print—despite of ordinary themes such love, friendship and not-so-crucial problem—include content about peer pressure,
illness, divorce, drugs, gangs, crime, violence, sexuality, incest, oral sex, and femalemale rape.
Luna by Julie Anne Peters is a novel that considered to be a young adult novel. Nevertheless, even only as a young adult novel Luna offers a serious
theme. It offers a story with a topic which rarely dealt with in young adult fiction. It may be the first young adult novel to really deal with transgender issues, and as
such, it offers an important opportunity for new dialogue and discussion.
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Since
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Young Adult Fiction. http:www.wikipedia.orgwikiYoung-adult_fiction.htm, accessed on March 15, 2009.
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www.Teenreads.com0316733695.asp.htm accessed on March 15, 2009.
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that Transgender and transsexual-centric fiction is a rare subset of LGBT
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literature. Most books published by and about transgender and transsexual people are non-fiction, such as: autobiographies, critiques or general LGBT or queer
studies texts.
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Luna by Julie Ann Peters is nominated for 19 awards since its publication in 2004, and won most of the honors including as a Best Book Award for Young
Adult Literature by An American Library Association. Luna is the story of transgender high school senior Liam O’Neil Luna, a girl trapped inside a male
body. Liam O’Neil spurs his metamorphosis forward by calling himself Lia Marie or Luna and exploring feminine clothes anywhere and anytime he has a chance.
The novel is told from the point of view of fifteen-year-old Regan. She struggles with the secret that her older brother, Liam, is a transsexual, who wants to
transition
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and live as a girl named Luna. Liam adopts the name Luna, which means moon, to reflect the fact she can only show herself as a girl at night.
As a human, Liam indifferently born as an ordinary man. Even so, there are many occurrences that eventually lead him into switching his identification in
sex typing, which at first has to be male, but he chooses to be a girl. This novel, Luna, has a main character that is very interesting to be
analyzed through the point of view of psychoanalysis regarding to his sex-typing and identification process. With the theory, there can be found the cause of Liam’s
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LGBT or GLBT is an initialism referring collectively to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people.
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Transgender. http:www.wikipedia.orgwikiTransgender_and_transsexual_fiction.htm , accessed on March 15, 2009.
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The process of changing from one gender presentation to another is often called transition.
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changing direction in identification which exactly has relation to his condition as a transgender. Therefore, in this research the writer will try to analyze Luna’s main
character with psychoanalysis theory by Sigmund Freud in order to unveil Luna’s main character psychological aspect.
B. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
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