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Prestige, Malu, and Adat: Reading Narrative Silence in Ismet Fanany’s Hadiah dari Rantau

This study aims to examine how narrative silence functions as a culturally productive interpretive strategy in Ismet Fanany’s short story Hadiah dari Rantau. Drawing on reader-response theory, it explores how textual gaps invite readers to construct ethical meaning through culturally situated frameworks rather than exp...