ABSTRAK
Dalam masyarakat multikultural, terdapat potensi terjadinya konflik yang disebabkanoleh perbedaan budaya. Akan tetapi, potensi konflik tersebut dapat berubah menjadi jalinanantarbudaya jika masing-masing pihak dapat membuka diri dan berkeinginan untuk menjalaniproses adaptasi dengan mengesampingkan berbagai prasangka. Permasalahan seperti ini kerapdiangkat dalam Kesusastraan Kanada. Gabrielle Roy, seorang penulis berdarah Quebec,mewujudkan hal tersebut dalam salah satu cerita pendek autobiografinya yang berjudulL?Italienne. Artikel ini membahas tentang interaksi yang terjadi dalam masyarakat yangberbeda budaya dengan menggunakan konsep interaksi sosial, identitas sosial, identitasbudaya dan stereotip yang berlandaskan teori struktur naratif dari Roland Barthes dan sekuendari Schmitt dan Viala. ABSTRACT
In a multicultural society, there is a potential for conflict caused by cultural differences.However, this possibility of a disharmony can be transformed into an intercultural bound ifeach party can open up and be willing to undergo a process of adaptation to the exclusion of various prejudices. This kind of problem often showed in Canadian Literature. Gabrielle Roy,a female Canadian writer, presents it in one short story autobiography titled L' Italienne. Thisarticle discusses the interactions that occur in a society of different cultures by using theconcept of social interaction, social identity, cultural identity and stereotypes based on thetheory of narrative structure?s Roland Barthes and sequence of Schmitt and Viala. ;In a multicultural society, there is a potential for conflict caused by cultural differences.However, this possibility of a disharmony can be transformed into an intercultural bound ifeach party can open up and be willing to undergo a process of adaptation to the exclusion of various prejudices. This kind of problem often showed in Canadian Literature. Gabrielle Roy,a female Canadian writer, presents it in one short story autobiography titled L' Italienne. Thisarticle discusses the interactions that occur in a society of different cultures by using theconcept of social interaction, social identity, cultural identity and stereotypes based on thetheory of narrative structure?s Roland Barthes and sequence of Schmitt and Viala. ;In a multicultural society, there is a potential for conflict caused by cultural differences.However, this possibility of a disharmony can be transformed into an intercultural bound ifeach party can open up and be willing to undergo a process of adaptation to the exclusion of various prejudices. This kind of problem often showed in Canadian Literature. Gabrielle Roy,a female Canadian writer, presents it in one short story autobiography titled L' Italienne. Thisarticle discusses the interactions that occur in a society of different cultures by using theconcept of social interaction, social identity, cultural identity and stereotypes based on thetheory of narrative structure?s Roland Barthes and sequence of Schmitt and Viala.