PERSPEKTIF PEREMPUAN (BARAT) TENTANG PERKAWINAN CAMPURAN, POLIGAMI, DAN ISLAM, DALAM NOVEL DEUXIÈME FEMME KARYA CAROLINE POCHON

The purpose of this study is to examine the perspective of the narrator, French female character, about the phenomenon of mixed marriage, polygamy, and Islam, which is contained in the Deuxième Femme novel 'Second Woman' by Caroline Pochon. To examine these matters, this study uses descriptive analysis methods with criticisms of feminist literature and theories of narratology, cross-culture, and identity. A structural approach is used to analyze the narrative structure that builds the narrator's frame of mind. The results of the study show that as a narrator who truly lives a mixed marriage, experiences polygamy, and has embraced Islam, Caroline Pochon realizes that mixed marriages are not easy to live by because she must try to maintain her identity as a French woman. He also found that polygamy was a cultural practice that had long existed in Senegal so that it was difficult to change, especially because local women themselves did not intend to fight it and men practiced it as a form of obedience to religion (Islam