Session Name: Encounters and Clashes in Colonial History I
De-colonial Perspective toward Pre-Indonesian Literature:Questioning the Aesthetic Hegemony and Ideology of Nota Rinkes’sBalai Pustaka
Monday, July 29, 2024
14:00 – 15:45 (GMT+7)
Paper Abstract: This paper discusses the aesthetic and ideological hegemony of Balai Pustaka in publishing literary works by employing de-colonial perspective and Antonio Gramsci concept of hegemony in analyzing the relationship between colonial condition and Western perspective of modernity. The objectives of this study are; 1). to describe the discourse of Nota Rinkes as an aesthetic and ideological standard of Balai Pustaka; 2). to describe the aesthetic and ideological aspects published by Balai Pustaka with colonial relations and the logic of Western modernity; 3) to describe the hegemony and dominance of Balai Pustaka in the aesthetic and ideological standards of literary works. This research used qualitative method and the data were collected through historiographical readings of Balai Pustaka’s literature from 1900-1932; mapping colonial relations and the logic of Western modernity of Balai Pustaka’s literature; examine the hegemony of Balai Pustaka on literature. The results showed: 1) the discourse of Nota Rinkes Balai Pustaka was created alongside the national movements through politic and literature; 2) Western colonial relations and modernity were attempted to harmonize Western norms towards Natives and negate resistance; 3). Balai Pustaka’s hegemony presented a negative stigmatization of non-Balai Pustaka works and has an impact on the ambivalence of Indigenous identity.
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