Adolescent Girl's Struggle in a Discriminatory Environment in Astuti N. Kilwouw's Manuver Sang Tentara Short Story

Abstract

Discrimination against people has always occurred and is unavoidable. Discrimination occurs at many levels, especially at the female gender level of society. It does continues, the question of which women are affected by discrimination also becomes a different matter. This can be seen in the literary works that appear nowadays. One of the works that raises these issues is the short story Manuver Sang Tentara by Astuti N. Kilwouw, which will be the material object of research in this article. While the formal object used is the notion of Intersectionality Collins and Bilge. The formal object is used in this research to examine how the conflict environment affects the oppression of the characters in the short story Manuver Sang Tentara. At the same time, why education is an important aspect in the lives of teenage girls in the short story. The results of this study found that environmental aspects greatly affect the opportunities for teenage women to pursue education are increasingly narrow and closed. Education is one of the important points to avoid the discrimination.