| dc.description.abstract | Roberta Cowell's Story is the autobiographical novel that tells about long
journey of Robert as an ex pilot in World War 2 who had undergone an advanced
female sex surgery. Roberta, as she was happy to be called now, is a British citizen
living in social conflict. This novel offers a lot of class conflict in the story that
makes the power of classes revealed in world view and active dialectical construction.
Conflicts faced by Roberta are described in the main structure happened during in
post-war 2. The notion occurs as military schools become important to construct
images of ideal male. Literary in terms of sociological approach brings the concept of
structuralism as genetically distinctive principle to manifest a particular world view
decided by dominant opinion by the dominant structure. This research further uses
qualitative research to apply the text of the novel in the story as the main data. The
data are analyzed to show the underlying structure as the emergence of dominant
power. Then, this problem causes Roberta is not accepted or her presence in every
class structure.
As a result, later in the analysis it is found that world view is not always dominated
by the military but it can also shift dialectically when science and media give space to
more acceptable transex within the last period. This novel also illustrates how far the
opinion is formed by the class interests that fall on class imbalance. | en_US |
