Gender Injustice Againts Bimanese Women and Their Resistence in Nika Baronta’s Novel

Abstract

This research aims to explain the form of gender injustice experienced by Bimanese women during the Japanese colonial period (1942-1945) and the form of resistance in the novel Nika Baronta by Alan Malingi as a research source. This research type is qualitative research with descriptive method. The data collection is done with three stages, namely categorization, tabulation, and inference. Analysis of the data used feminist literary criticism with a focus on looking at literary works as a female reader. The results showed that there are gender injustices in the form of stereotypes, violence such as verbal violence and sexual violence, subordination, and marginalization of Bimanese women as depicted through the main female characters in the text. In addition, there is also resistance to gender injustice against Bimanese women such as the Bima sultan's policy of Nika Baronta as a form of macro resistance and dressing up like grandmothers and hiding in the attic as micro resistance.