Suara Sang Subaltern: Sebuah Narasi Autobiografi Perempuan Tanpa Nama dalam Hakim-hakim 19

This paper offers a postcolonial feminist reading of Levi’s concubine narration recorded in the Book of Judges 19 that focuses on the subaltern voice from Gayatri Spivak's thinking. It defines the subaltern as oppressed people who cannot speak on their own to represent themselves. This study was conducted by autobiographical criticism. Through auto-biographical narratives, the story is re-told through the nameless woman's point of view as the subaltern and it will reveal the narrative of her unspeakable suffering. The nameless woman's voice was claimed to be the voice that was cast but refused silence, and now it produces an autobiographical narrative that echoes the voices of subalterns silenced in the present context.Abstrak. Tulisan ini menawarkan sebuah pembacaan feminis pascakolonial terhadap narasi gundik seorang Lewi yang tercatat dalam Hakim-hakim 19 yang berfokus pada suara subaltern dari pemikiran Gayatri Spivak. Subaltern dalam tulisan ini diartikan sebagai orang-orang tertindas yang tidak dapat bersuara untuk merepresentasikan dirinya. Metode yang digunakan adalah kritik autobiografi. Melalui narasi autobiografi, kisah ini dituturkan kembali melalui sudut pandang sang perempuan tanpa nama sebagai subaltern dan menyingkapkan narasi penderitaannya yang tak terkatakan di dalam teks. Suara perempuan tanpa nama diklaim sebagai suara yang dibekap tetapi menolak diam dan kini menghasilkan sebuah narasi autobiografis yang menggemakan suara-suara subaltern yang disenyapkan dalam konteks masa kini.

Out of Wordlock: Autobiography and the Syrophoenician Women

This article accepts the challenges of autobiographical criticism by exploring the influences and commitments that have informed and shaped a long period of research, in an Australian context, on Mark's account of Jesus' interaction with the Syrophoenician women (7:24–30). In the process I argue for the realisation that the self that is given to research and the research itself are significantly informed by multiple agencies, and that writing is an unstable means for fixing the self or truth. Furthermore, I maintain that somatic realities are not only equally as constructive as words but are what the text of words yearns for and needs for its life. The Syrophoenician women emerge from the process as themselves delivering a challenge to objectivist writing as well as delivering an independence of identity beyond the limits of textualisation.