MENYELISIK SASTRA MELAYU RENDAH (Finding Popular Literature Malay)

Abstract

ABSTRAK

Permasalahan  penting dalam penulisan sejarah sastra Indonesia  modern adalah menentukan masa awal sastra Indonesia lahir. Beberapa ahli berbeda argumen dalam  menjelaskan awal Sastra Indonesia Modern yang menjadi titik tolak perkembangan Sastra Indonesia Modern. Berdasarkan kajian pustaka, peneliti melihat kekurangcermatan pengumpulan data serta sikap dan pandangan penulis Sejarah Sastra Indonesia Modern. Mereka tidak memasukkan pengarang dan karyanya dalam penulisan tersebut. Para pengarang tersebut produktif dan signifikan dalam perkembangan Sastra Indonesia Modern. Dengan teori runtutan perkembangan sastra Wellek dan Warren serta metode tinjauan pustaka, peneliti  menafsirkan ulang masa awal sejarah Sastra Indonesia Modern dengan memasukkan  Sastra Melayu Rendah yang sebelumnya tidak tercatat dalam buku-buku tersebut. Berdasarkan hal itu, awal sejarah sastra Indonesia  hendaknya dimundurkan ke masa Sastra Melayu Rendah, yaitu sekitar 1850-an.

Kata Kunci: sejarah sastra, sastra indonesia modern,  sastra melayu rendah, sastra melayu tionghoa

ABSTRACT

An important issue in writing the history of modern Indonesian literature is to explain the inception of Indonesian literature. Some experts have different opinions regarding the beginning of Modern Indonesian Literature which became the starting point of the history of Modern Indonesian Literature. Researchers see the inaccuracies and attitudes and views of these authors. They do not include the author and his work in writing. These writers were productive and significant in the development of Modern Indonesian Literature. Sequential theory and library research methods were used to reinterpret early history by including Popular Malay Literature which was not previously recorded in these books. Based on this, the beginning of the history of Indonesian literature should have started in the 1850s during the era of Popular Malay Literature.

Keywords: literary history, Modern Indonesian Literature, Popular  Malay Literature, Chinese Malay Literature