Review of Related Literature

digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id several studies which conducted using pastiche as its literary criticism and theory, but nothing in which used The Selection as a subject of its analysis. There are some similar studies about pastiche which is applied in different novel. Whereas, there are also studies which conducted using novel The Selection, but none of them which is using pastiche as a theory. These studies which relate to this research are conducted within the last few years. The first is the study from Islamic Azad University wrote by Maede h Zare’e 2016 with tittle: Pastiche in Paul Auster’s The New York Trilogy. This research described the three novels comprising the trilogy City of Glass, Ghosts, and The Locked Room which retelling the same story. According to researcher, Quinn, Paul Auster as the author of mystery novels does not have any tangible information about real crime. Therefore, his stories are not real detective ones but kinds of imitation of this genre on which he has no sufficient information. That an imitation in the detective genre is used by Auster in writing of the whole novel The New York Trilogy 2015. It was described as a postmodern detective story in which Auster borrows some elements from detective fiction and uses his own writing to explore the nature and depicts the limitations of the genre, and to ask questions of a more philosophical nature concerning perception, interpretation, and the availability of truth, or meaning. Moreover, this research shows that those three stories are pastiche to each other as they imitate themselves. By means the main characters of three stories are somehow like each other. digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id For the novel, The Selection also had been analyzed by I. A. Ika Sarita Dewi from Udayana University in 2016 titled Conflict and Psychological Aspects of America Singer in the Novel The Selection. This research focused on the conflict and psychological character of America Singer that applied the theories of Practical Psychology by Karl S. Bernhart and the theory of conflict by Gail and Myers. This present study showed that America Singer is introvert and phlegmatic one. It proved by how she can keep something that happens in her life secret and always resolves the problem by herself. The next research is from Padjajaran University, by Nisa Faridah titled KewajaranNaturalness Terjemahan Novel The Selection Karya Kiera Cass Naturalness in the Translating Novel of The Selection by Kiera Cass. This study aimed to determine the application of adjusment in the novel so that the translation remains acceptable and natural to the novel, The Selection. This study used the theory of naturalness proposed by Peter Newmark, that the levels of naturalness are categorized. These categories include word order, collocation and cognate words in sentences with informal and colloquial styles affect the casual language that used in novel and translation. Based on this study, the research is concluded that the adjustment made to the translation is to see the emphasis on the target language due to different word order structure, the use of different forms of collocation with the same meaning and the use of cognate word is not equivalent in Indonesian language. digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id Whereas the translation of the novel achieve the natural translation because it follows the rule of grammatical in the target language. Toward the explanation about the theory and previous studies that have conducted, it can be concluded that the theory and the novel have ever been analyzed by academic students or other researchers. However, none of those studies which analyzed the same novel, The Selection, with same theory, postmodern pastiche by Jameson. Furthermore, this research deals with its differentiation with other previous studies that have conducted. digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id CHAPTER III PASTICHE OF CINDERELLA IN KIERA CASS’ THE SELECTION: A POSTMODERN STUDY This section contains the analysis that explain the issue stated in the statements of problem in the first chapter. The analysis will be supported by the relevant data from primary and secondary sources as mentioned in method of the study. This analysis is divided into two issues: the first is that general review of both works, The Selection and Cinderella. Whereas second issue is postmodern pastiche of The Selection including postmodernism of The Selection, repetition aspects and The Selection as a new style of Cinderella.

3.1. Pastiche of Postmodernism of The Selection

3.1.1. Postmodern Characteristics of The Selection

The Selection is a popular novel which published in 2012. It is considered as a postmodern literature that has some characteristics. The fact that The Selection is one of postmodern work is proved by some elements. A. Portrayal of Consumer Society First characteristic of postmodern work is the stressing of the consumer society through industrial media. Jameson claims that postmodernism often also designated consumer society, media society, information society, electronic society or high tech, and the like 3. In this case, Sharma and Chaudhary in their journal argue that in digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id digilib.uinsby.ac.id postmodernity people are inundated with information, technology has become a central focus in many lives, for example, Don DeLillos White Noise presents characters who are bombarded with a white noise of television, product brand names, and clichés. In this case, The Selection also presents postmodern characteristic that portrays a consumer society in which they always watch the television show. It was Friday, so the Ilea Capit al Report would be on at eight. We weren’t exactly obligated to watch, but it was unwise to miss it. Even Eight ─the homeless, the wandering ─would find a store or a church where they could see the Report. And with the Selection coming up, the Report was more than a semi-requirement. Everyone wanted to know what was happening in that department Cass 38. Illea Capital Report is a television show that focuses on Kingdom’s life that all of the castes always watch. It shows that people of Illea is consumer society whose the media information is important for them. It indicates that The Selection is a representatives of postmodern work in term of society who live in headway of technology and media industry. B. Depthlessness through Character Other characteristic is depthlessness through the character. Postmodern works create characters who are not rebellious as modern ones, but they try to reach a certain level of awareness through multi-perspectivism Kayhan 74. So they sometimes hopeless, but sometimes hopeful in certain case. Indeed, when America is in the palace, she proposes a society without caste.