Postmemory: Transmisi Memori Dan Rekonsiliasi Dalam Novel Next Year in Havana Karya Chanel Cleeton

Abstract

Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton talks on a dual-lifetime story between Marisol andElisa. This Novel shows a narration of the Cuban Revolution on a love story, losing family and searching for family roots in grandmother' land. The process of finding to reconstruct memory needs some sources, it is from an intergenerational and outside of family to fulfill the identity as Cuban American. This study aimed to know how the structure of traumatic memory is formed and how returning journeys can reconstruct the uncompleted memory. This research used descriptive history as a method. In doing so, the researcher used the postmemory approach by Marriane Hirsch to analyze the object material. Then, the result of this study: 1). There are structures of memories transmission such as familial from the grandmother and affiliative transmission from the outside of the family. 2). The author takes a side on this novel that President F. Batista as the Hypermazculine and Cuban people as Feminized. 3). The mission of returning the journey has been done to look at reality closer and to answer the assumptions of uncompleted memory.

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“…Moreover, postmemory research also interacts many researchers. For examples, Ernawati (2019), Assa (2019), Jati (2020), Mulyadi & Putra (2021), Furqan, (2022), and Nugroho (2022. The results of their research were familial and affiliative transmissions formed by the traumatic memories of their research, the attempt to reconstruct memories to answer the memories that are not complete.…”