The Practice of Ideological State Apparatuses in Lois Lowry's The Giver
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https://doi.org/10.15642/NOBEL.2017.8.2.83-93Keywords:
ideological state apparatus (ISA); The GiverAbstract
This article attempts to portray how a contemporary young adult literature entitled The Giver (Lowry, 1993) illustrates the operation of state apparatus in a dystopian setting of time and place. Applying Althusser's theory of state apparatuses, the study particularly focuses on a prominent issue of Ideological State Apparatuses (ISA) which is operated within The Giver's society. Descriptive qualitative research is applied to interpret the data in the novel. The result of this study reveals that the novel draws ISA as a tool to control and to maintain the dominance in this dystopian community. The ISA operates through training system, particular rule of language used by the community, media censorship, and family's role.
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Creswell, J. W. (2007). Qualitative Inquiry & Research Design (Second Edition). London: Sage Publications.
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Lowry, L. (1993). The Giver. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
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Sevgi, H., & Ozgokceler, S. (2016). Media and Cerattepe in Turkey: Althusser’s Communications Ideological State Apparatus (ISA)-Ori. Eurasian Journal of Social Sciencies, 14-24.
Souza, J. d. (2013). Violence and Society in Dystopian Fiction. Utrecht: Universiteit Utrecht.
Virtanen, T. (2012). Individual and Societal Control in Lois Lowry's The Giver. Finlandia: University of Tampere.
Wolk, G. (2015). The Repressive Role of Technology in American and British Dystopian Novels of The Cold War. Orlando, Florida: University of Central Florida.
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2017-09-03
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Setyorini, A., & Idris, S. (2017). The Practice of Ideological State Apparatuses in Lois Lowry’s The Giver. NOBEL: Journal of Literature and Language Teaching, 8(2), 83–93. https://doi.org/10.15642/NOBEL.2017.8.2.83-93
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