In “The Obsessive Twist” the main conflict is focused on the heated debates on sexuality, politics, violence, and religion. The social themes are intertwined with feminist criticism that is presented as a Kitsch of the Indonesian mass culture. Her prose is built upon some borrowed European literary forms for expression of authentic Indonesian content. The short stories contain the mosaic of folklore-mythological motives from the Malay Archipelago, Biblical and Quranic narratives, as well as European fairy tales and allusions to American horror fiction and horror films. Using the intertextual method, it was possible to prove the gothic poetics of these literary works. The article examines five short stories (“Spinner of Darkness” (Pemintal Kegelapan), “Vampire” (Vampir), “Polaroid’s Mystery” (Misteri Polaroid), “The Blind Woman without a Toe” (Perempuan Buta tanpa Ibu Jari), and “The Obsessive Twist” (Goyang Penasaran)). Paramaditha’s feminist texts are disguised as horror stories with settings in contemporary Indonesia. Analysis and interpretation of the short stories by Indonesian female writer Intan Paramaditha (Intan Paramaditha, born in 1979) make it possible to understand that her writing occupies a special niche in the modern Indonesian literary paradigm.
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