her or himself, the reader, characterization and the extrinsic aspect that influence the situation in writing.
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2. Purpose
The main goal of feminist literary criticism is to analyze the relationship of gender, where women are in men domination situations.
Through a feminist literary criticism will be described oppression of women in literature.
22
Humm also states that the authors of literary history before the emergence of feminist literary criticism constructed by men fiction. Therefore,
feminist literary criticism reconstructs and re-reads these works by focusing on women and the nature sociolinguistic and also describes womens writing
with special attention in using of her words in his writings.
23
Kolodny in Djajanegara proffers some important purposes of feminist literary criticism. One of them is we can reinterpret and reevaluate the whole
of literary criticism that was made many centuries ago.
24
Beside, feminist uses feminist literary criticism to help them to deconstruct patriarchy politic as
represented in language.
25
Lisa Tuttle has defined feminist theory as asking new questions of old texts. She cites the goals of feminist criticism as:
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1. To develop and uncover a female tradition of writing,
21
Sugihastuti and Suharto 2002, Op, Cit. p. 5.
22
Maggie Humm, Feminist Criticism: Women as contemporary Critics Brighton: Harvester Press, 1986, p. 22.
23
Ibid, p. 14-15.
24
Soenarti Djayanegara, 2000, Op.Cit. p. 20.
25
Maggie Humm, Ensiklopedia Feminisme Translator, Mundi Rahayu Yogyakarta: Fajar Pustaka Baru, 2007, p. 20.
26
Lisa Tuttle, Encyclopedia of Feminism. Harlow: Longman 1986, p. 184.
2. To interpret symbolism of womens writing so that it will not be lost or
ignored by the male point of view, 3.
To rediscover old texts, 4.
To analyze women writers and their writings from a female perspective, 5.
To resist sexism in literature, and 6.
To increase awareness of the sexual politics of language and style. In addition, the purposes of feminist criticism are to add our
knowledge about the experience of woman, her needs, and woman’s life, to analyze woman’s literary work, and to understand the fiction of female author,
int erpret and appraise it. So, feminist criticism reveals woman’s realm in many
aspects. From this criticism, the researcher knows about the ability and the role of woman in the social life. Thus, woman is able to show the same right
in the social with their own special quality.
3. History
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