Estetika Pada Novel Geni Jora Karya Abidah El Khalieqy

The main purpose of this study is to explicate the aesthetics portrayed in Geni Jora novel by Abidah El Khalieqy, published by Qanita Bandung in 2009. Regarding the aesthetics approach, the author believes that this novel has presented a salient contribution to producing more creative literary works. Comprehensive dictions are carefully selected and tightened with strong aesthetic sense in representing particular moments from this novel in order to demonstrate the power of language as a strong energy in expressing any incident. Aesthetic conflicts, as a part of postmodern aesthetics, mostly appear in any scene of this novel as Abidah El Khalieqy tried to explore the most common problems women face against restrictions of binary opposition in society. Postmodern aesthetics is definitely characterized by the main character that makes this novel has its power to convey the other sides of a woman’s life.