Citra Perempuan dalam Novel Upacara, Api Awan Asap, dan Bunga Karya Korrie Layun Rampan

This research focuses on the growth of gender issues colouring three masterpiece novels of Korrie Layun Rampan, especially in presenting the role of gender among women and men. This problem is addressed more on the role of women in the domestic area and also public space. This paper aims to describe the existence of belles-lettres and problems happening in a society, especially those emerging in the context of gender. The study uses feminism theory in revealing the woman image so that feminism studies used for the elaboration. Librarian method was used in collecting the data. The analysis used the analytical technique so that the role of woman in novels of Upacara, Api Awan Asap, and Bunga in the form of gender can be depicted clearly. The result of this research is that the three novels can be considered as or have fulfilled the principles of being feminism type. It is because the roles of figures in those novels are women of Dayak imaged as modern and traditional women. However, their figures still oppose the cultural tradition of Dayak which still practices patriarchalism. Besides, violence still happen to women in public and also domestic area so that there are differences among men and women which form negative labels or stereotypes.