Botanical, Gastronomy, and Zoological Perspectives in Contemporary Literary Texts: Study of Literary Anthropology
Aji Septiaji

Universitas Majalengka

Abstract

The excellence of literary texts is not only consist of humans problems as individuals who are questioning about their condition as victims or perpetrators between their relationships with others but also deliver a message that can be conveyed to readers and its^ influence on the readers^ real life. Botanical, gastronomy, and zoological as an interdisciplinary approach view that literary texts presented get its superiority and influence for the writer or reader in responding to problems of ecological systems that care more about plant, food, and animals with their life among humans. The research method is qualitative with literary anthropology as the approach. The data analyzed are 20 contemporary literary texts of poetry and short stories in Indonesian. Contemporary context is related to the development process of a work and has more influence on itsliterary work. The results showed that (1) botanical perspective through its role as living things on earth and often as complement to human life or as a victim of humans exploitation- (2) gastronomy perspective through its role as something that is needed by humans to carry out life activities and often food becomes something to be liked or avoided- and (3) zoological perspective through its role as companion for human life or a victim of forest exploitation, is a place where they live, which becomes a threat to human life, thus reflecting on behavior that causes disaster. In addition, the results of this research can be used as ideas in writing literary texts of various genres.

Keywords: botanical, gastronomy, zoological, literary text, literary anthropology

Topic: Humanities