Nyai’s Rebellion: When the Author and Translator Unchained the Woman Character from Men’s Domination (A Critical Discourse Analysis)

In all over the world, women's thought and behavior have been interesting issue to be discovered, including in literary art.This research examines the ideology of patriarchy and feminism within translated novel This Earth of Mankind.How the translator brought the ideology to the translated novel might be a heavy task.The method of this research was qualitative content analysis using the critical discourse analysis perspective.Data was obtained from discourse within the novel.Data were collected by observing and noting.Data then analyzed using qualitative content analysis by Phillip Mayring.The ideology of patriarchy and feminism were analyzed using approach of critical discourse analysis by Sara Mills which have four sub themes: character/ role, vocalization, fragmentation, and schemata.The result shows how the author liberated Nyai as the woman character from man domination.Nyai had become a ruler of her own business and free to show her standpoints which opposites to the patriarchy world of Javanese.The analysis shows how ideology of patriarchy, radical feminism, Marxist feminism, liberal feminism, and social patriarchy feminism wrapped inside the novel which are translated into English.This research can bring a new point of view on how seeing a literary art.It is clearly can be seen if a translated novel can also act as a media of annunciate and denunciate such as its source novel.