This study examines three short stories in the anthology of the short story Cinta Tak Ada Mati by Eka Kurniawan based on the perspective of Pierre Bourdieu. The three short stories studied were "Kutukan Dapur", “Lesung Pipit" and "Tak Ada yang Gila di Kota Ini". This study aims to describe and analyze the structuration of power consisting of capital, class, habitus, arena, violence and power, as well as symbolic violence in the three short stories selected.
The method used in this research is descriptive analysis using a discursive approach. The data collection technique used in this research is literature study. In the literature study, the steps taken are listening and taking notes, namely listening to the reading material and recording the data obtained for later analysis using Pierre Bourdieu's theory. The data that has been analyzed are presented with a descriptive qualitative approach.
The results of this study are: (1) there are four capitals owned by the characters in the short stories "Kutukan Dapur", "Lesung Pipit", and "Tak Ada yang Gila di Kota Ini", namely: economic, social, cultural, and symbolic capital. (2) The class division of the characters is influenced by the strength of the capital they have. In this short story, the dominant class was occupied by the colonialists or the Dutch in the short story "Kutukan Dapur", shamans in the short story "Lesung Pipit", as well as travelers and preachers on the short story "Tak Ada yang Gila di Kota Ini". The small bourgeoisie class consisted of Diah Ayu and Maharani in the short story "Kutukan Dapur", Lesung Pipit's father in the short story "Lesung Pipit", and order officers on the short story "Tak Ada yang Gila di Kota Ini". Then the popular class is filled with native servants in the short story "Kutukan Dapur", Lesung Pipit in the short story "Lesung Pipit", and people with mental disorders in the short story "Tak Ada yang Gila di Kota Ini", (3) Habitus and the arena used or described in the three short stories is the social life of the middle to lower society with a historical and socio-cultural background. (4) The symbolic violence found in the three short stories is in the form of a mechanism of euphemism, censorship mechanism, and creating the world. Symbolic violence is inherent in every action, social structure, knowledge structure, structure of one's consciousness, and imposes power on the social order.
