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"Pandangan sosial, termasuk yang terdapat dalam media massa seperti buku dan film, sering menggambarkan bahwa menstruasi adalah sesuatu yang menjijikkan, berbahaya, dan bisa mengontaminasi. Banyak akademisi sudah menulis tentang representasi isu menstruasi dalam sastra atau membandingkan representasi tersebut dalam dua teks media berbeda. Namun, sejauh ini belum ada literatur yang membandingkan representasi isu menstruasi dalam dua karya sastra dengan genre, konteks sosiokultural, dan bahasa yang berbeda. Karena itu, penulis memilih dua teks sastra dengan aspek-aspek berbeda tersebut untuk membandingkan representasi menstruasi di dalamnya: “Darah,” cerpen horor feminis oleh Intan Paramaditha dan The Red Tent, novel fiksi sejarah oleh Anita Diamant. Artikel ini bertujuan membandingkan dua karya sastra berbeda yang menggambarkan menstruasi sebagai subjek yang menimbulkan reaksi ambivalen dari pihak-pihak yang mengalaminya serta masyarakat di sekitarnya. Melalui metode analisis tekstual dan teori abjection Julia Kristeva sebagai kerangka teori, artikel ini menyimpulkan bahwa menstruasi—sebagai fungsi biologis perempuan (female)—dapat dipandang dan diperlakukan dengan cara yang sangat berbeda, tergantung tempat, waktu, dan konteks sosiokulturalnya. Faktor-faktor ini kemudian memengaruhi bagamana seorang perempuan memaknai pengalaman menstruasinya.

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Mainstream societal views as well as various media including books and movies often maintain that menstruation is disgusting, harmful, dangerous, and contaminating. Many scholars have written about the representation of menstruation in literature or compared the representation of menstruation in two similar media texts. However, there is little to no research yet on literature that compares the representation of menstruation in two literary works from different genres, sociocultural contexts, and languages. In order to fill that gap, the author chose “Darah,” a feminist horror short story by Intan Paramaditha, an Indonesian author, and The Red Tent, a historical fiction novel by Anita Diamant, an American author. This article aims to compare the two fictional literary works which represent menstruation as a subject that provokes ambivalent reactions from the persons experiencing it and the society surrounding it. Through close reading with the textual analysis method and applying Kristeva’s theory of abjection as a critical lens, this article finds that menstruation as a female biological function can be viewed and treated very differently in various times and places according to their respective sociocultural contexts, which directly affects how a woman perceives her experience of menstruation.

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"Jane Austen's remarkable juvenilia date from 1787, when she was eleven, to 1793, when she was seventeen. She preserved these early writings in three manuscript notebooks, entitled, with mock solemnity, 'Volume the First', 'Volume the Second' and 'Volume the Third'. Most of the twenty-seven items in these notebooks are short fictions, but the young Austen also wrote the opening of what could have become a full-length novel, 'Catharine', as well as dramatic sketches, verses and a few non-fictional pieces. Astonishingly sophisticated and inventive, these writings, with their anarchic energy, violence and irreverence, are now receiving the scholarly attention they deserve. This edition provides a fresh transcription of Austen's manuscripts, with comprehensive explanatory notes, an extensive critical introduction covering the context and publication history of the juvenilia, a chronology of Austen's life, and an authoritative textual apparatus. It also prints, for the first time, the copious satirical marginalia that Austen wrote on her copies of Oliver Goldsmith's History of England"