REIMAJINASI POLITIK DALAM NOVEL RABET, RUNTUHNYA JERMAN TIMUR KARYA MARTIN JANKOWSKI

Abstract

This study aims to describe the factors, ideological reconstruction process, and political
reimagination process in a nationhood phenomenon of the reunification of Germany as a
nation and a state. The data source was Rabet, Runtuhnya Jerman Timur, a novel by Martin
Jankowski. The study employed the perspective of new historicism studies through three
steps of analysis, namely the ideological dimension, discursive practice at the time the
events occurred, and discursive practice in the present context. The results of the study
suggest that the reunification of Germany as a nation is based on three factors, namely:
(1) the presence of collective consciousness among the citizens of East Germany and West
Germany to live together after they have lived apart for decades; (2) the awareness of the
importance of ideological reconstruction for the country to be built, that is the presence of
alternative political ideology in the third way; and (3) the political reimagination driven
by racial dimension awareness enabling freedom to grow, violent acts to disappear, and
welfare to be realized as envisioned ideals.