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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Литературоведение. Журналистика</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2312-9220</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2312-9247</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">49450</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2312-9220-2026-31-1-123-133</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="edn">SSFGOA</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>LITERARY CRITICISM</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>Литературоведение</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">Silent Witnesses: Phytocritical Readings of Mangroves as Mnemonic Devices in Leila S. Chudori’s The Sea Speaks His Name</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Безмолвные свидетели: роль мангровых лесов как носителей памяти в романе Лейлы С. Чудори «Море говорит его имя»</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1949-6926</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Darmawan</surname><given-names>Ruly Indra</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Дармаван</surname><given-names>Рули Индра</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Lecturer of the Faculty of Language and Arts</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>преподаватель факультета языков и искусств</p></bio><email>rulyindra@mail.unnes.ac.id</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7827-2506</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Indriyanto</surname><given-names>Kristiawan</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Индрийанто</surname><given-names>Кристиаван</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Lecturer of the Faculty of Teacher Training and Education</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>преподаватель факультета подготовки учителей и образования</p></bio><email>kristiawanindriyanto@unprimdn.ac.id</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff2"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9570-4654</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Rosyidi</surname><given-names>Mohamad Ikhwan</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Росийди</surname><given-names>Мохамад Ихван</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Lecturer of the Faculty of Language and Arts</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>преподаватель факультета языков и искусств</p></bio><email>mirosyidi@mail.unnes.ac.id</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0009-0009-9764-3857</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Thohiriyah</surname><given-names>-</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Тохирия</surname><given-names>-</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Lecturer of the Faculty of Language and Arts</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>преподаватель факультета языков и искусств</p></bio><email>thohiriyah@mail.unnes.ac.id</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Universitas Negeri Semarang</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Государственный университет Семаранг</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><aff-alternatives id="aff2"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">Universitas Prima Indonesia</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Университет Прима Индонезия</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2026-04-01" publication-format="electronic"><day>01</day><month>04</month><year>2026</year></pub-date><volume>31</volume><issue>1</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">VOL 31, NO1 (2026)</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">ТОМ 31, №1 (2026)</issue-title><fpage>123</fpage><lpage>133</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2026-04-02"><day>02</day><month>04</month><year>2026</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2026, Darmawan R.I., Indriyanto K., Rosyidi M.I., Thohiriyah -.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2026, Дармаван Р.И., Индрийанто К., Росийди М.И., Тохирия -.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2026</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Darmawan R.I., Indriyanto K., Rosyidi M.I., Thohiriyah -.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Дармаван Р.И., Индрийанто К., Росийди М.И., Тохирия -.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/literary-criticism/article/view/49450">https://journals.rudn.ru/literary-criticism/article/view/49450</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>This study explores the role of mangroves as agents of memory in Leila S. Chudori’s The Sea Speaks His Name (Laut Bercerita) through a phytocritical lens. It argues that Chudori frames coastal flora not as passive scenery but as witnesses to Indonesia’s 1998 political violence. Drawing on theories of plant-thinking and ecological memory, the analysis reveals how mangroves function as a vegetal archive. Their tangled roots embody suppressed histories, their cyclical regeneration resists erasure, and their medicinal qualities echo cultural survival in the face of trauma. Through close reading and ethnobotanical contextualization, the study demonstrates how the novel embeds trauma in ecological forms, challenging anthropocentric narratives of history. The analysis also connects botanical imagery in the text with Indigenous epistemologies, where plants serve as custodians of ancestral memory. By tracing motifs such as roots, sap, and scars, the analysis identifies a multispecies structure of remembrance that operates alongside and beyond human testimony. This reading contributes to Southeast Asian ecocriticism by showing how literature transforms local ecologies into sites of postcolonial resistance and mnemonic resilience.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>Рассматривается символическая роль образа мангровых лесов как носителей памяти в романе Лейлы С. Чудори «Море говорит его имя» (The Sea Speaks His Name) с использованием фитокритического подхода. Основываясь на теории растительного мышления Майкла Мардера и экокритики памяти Астрид Бракке, исследование утверждает, что в романе мангровые деревья функционируют как мнемонические устройства: сохраняют коллективную травму, связанную с политическим насилием в Индонезии в 1998 г. В отличие от традиционного антропоцентричного нарратива памяти, Чудори изображает прибрежную флору как растительный архив памяти, действующий в качестве агента запоминания через три ключевых механизма: переплетенные корни деревьев материализуют подавленные истории; их циклическое возрождение противостоит стиранию, навязываемому государством; их лечебные свойства отражают стратегии культурного выживания. Анализируя фрагменты, в которых мангровые деревья «свидетельствуют» об исчезновении и разрушении побережья, исследование демонстрирует, как роман бросает вызов антропоцентрической историографии. Авторы приходят к выводу, что растения являются кодом памяти в литературе постдиктаторского периода. Исследование предлагает новую модель прочтения художественной прозы, показывающую, как литература преобразует локальные экосистемы в места постколониального сопротивления и мнемонической устойчивости.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>phytocriticism</kwd><kwd>The Sea Speaks His Name</kwd><kwd>memory studies</kwd><kwd>Indonesian ecocriticism</kwd><kwd>plant agency</kwd><kwd>trauma literature</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>фитокритика</kwd><kwd>«Море говорит его имя»</kwd><kwd>исследование памяти</kwd><kwd>индонезийская экокритика</kwd><kwd>агентность растений</kwd><kwd>литература травмы</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group/></article-meta><fn-group/></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><mixed-citation>Aveling, H. (2014). Secrets Need Words: Indonesian Poetry, 1966-1998. Ohio University Press.</mixed-citation></ref><ref id="B2"><label>2.</label><mixed-citation>Bracke, A. (2018). Climate Crisis and the 21st-Century British Novel. 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