Kritik Sosial dalam Novel Pasung Jiwa Karya Okky Madasari (Social Criticism in the Novel Pasung Jiwa by Okky Madasari)

Abstract

This study aims to describe and explain the social criticism contained in the novel Pasung Jiwa by Okky Madasari. The method used is the descriptive qualitative method. The data source of this research is the text of the novel Pasung Jiwa by Okky Madasari, first printed in 2013 and published by PT Gramedia Pustaka Utama Jakarta Publisher. This research is focused on problems related to social criticism. The data was obtained by using the document technique and analyzed in terms of content. The approach used in the sociology of literature. The research stages consist of data identification, data description, data analysis, and data interpretation. The results of the study indicate that this novel contains criticisms of parental/family confinement, abuse of transgender women, the miserable life of factory workers, the lives of commercial sex workers, those in power, and government arbitrariness, as well as the existence of laskar/religious defenders.