DOI: https://doi.org/10.14710/parole.v15i2.89-102

Constructing Feminist Ideology in Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s Bumi Manusia and Its English Translation: A Critical Discourse Analysis

1Universitas Indraprasta PGRI, Indonesia

2Pendidikan Bahasa Arab, Universitas Negeri Jakarta, Indonesia

3Universitas Negeri Jakarta, Indonesia

Received: 12 Jan 2026; Revised: 1 Mar 2026; Accepted: 1 Mar 2026; Available online: 4 Mar 2026; Published: 4 Oct 2025.
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Translation as an ideological activity encounters its challenges when translating literary works. The ideology recorded in the linguistic units of literary works becomes a challenge for translators to find equivalents in the TT. One of the ideologies contained in literary works is resistance to the marginalization of women, called feminist ideology. The research questions of this study are: (1) what are the ideological devices used in novel Bumi Manusia?: and (2) how the ideological devices translated into English? This study is a qualitative study using the inductive content analysis method of the Phillip Myring model. The data sources are taken from the Indonesian novel Bumi Manusia and its translated novel This Earth of Mankind. This study is an interdisciplinary study because it involves the disciplines of language and culture. This study uses the main concept of van Dijk. Data were collected through note-taking techniques. The research procedure conducted through credibility, dependability, transferability, and confirmability checking. The results of the study show that iideological devices are in the form of word choice and rhetorical construction and the majority of the ideological devices are not shifting when they are translated. This research can be used as a recommendation in teaching translation.

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Keywords: ideological devices, translation, literary art, feminism, critical discourse analysis

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