Analysis of 'The Melting' of Power: Literature, Liquid Subjectivity, and Resistance to the Powers of Culture and the State in a Postcolonial Perspective by Ikwan Setiawan

The purpose of the paper analysis is with a conceptual-theoretical and methodological orientation, which will discuss the fluidity of the power of culture and the state in the narrative structure of literature, using a postcolonial approach. Literary narrative can be positioned as a product of representation that presents fluid subjectivity, in the form of narrative figures and particular discourses, related to socio-cultural issues, especially cultural hybridity. The presence of modernity and the ongoing practice of traditional culture in post-colonial society caused these problems to arise. The results of this study indicate that fluid subjectivity, on the one hand, can lead to discourses of emancipation to empower local communities and, on the other hand, can create resistance to such culture-based power.