City as Memory in Five Bells and The Root of All Evil

Abstract: Reading a city through texts shows that the city is often described as complicated (Cohen et. al., 1997). This paper attempts to disclose the representations of complicated city of Sydney and Jakarta in women’s literary works in relation to gender and culture in texts of Jones’s novel Five Bells and Anggraeni’s The Root of All Evil. Applying Bakhtin’s concept of chronotope, the result indicates both novels show the unsettling cities through the lens of individuals’ memory. The complications are represented in the individuals’ identity and idea of patriarchal society and masculine cities.

Keywords: city, chronotope, identity, memory

Author: R.A. Vita N.P.A.

Journal Code: jpkomunikasigg150002

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