Imaginative Reality in Novel Burung-Burung Manyar by Y.B. Mangunwijaya (Analysis of New Historicism during the Indonesian Independence Revolution) Andri Wicaksono (a*), Rohana (b), Dian Permanasari (c)
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Abstract
Among the various means of representation, such as historical textbooks and mass media that are dominated and voice the interests of the (state) ruler, literary works have attitudes and views that are not always in line with this desire. For this reason, this study describes in depth the historical findings contained in literary texts, namely the imaginative reality of the nation^s struggle during the national revolution in the novel Burung-Burung Manyar by Y.B. Mangunwijaya. The research method used is qualitative interpretive with parallel reading between literary texts at events which represent the historical representation of the nation^s struggle. The data analysis used in this study is a non-interactive analysis model. Fiction (novels) is an imaginary reality that is structured such writers of various elements forming, such as events, conflict, character, and so on. Therefore the form of narrative sources that contain complete or partial description and tend written, the imaginative fiction of history related to social issues, political, cultural, and religious as well as economic. Imaginative reality or historical value that can be taken from the novel Burung-burung Manyar by Y.B. Mangunwijaya is the spirit of nationalism and the spirit of struggle of its characters, about the role in the struggle that fighting does not always have to be in the forefront, cocking weapons, facing real enemies, but also through diplomacy and giving up all thoughts and energy to help the government.
Keywords: reality imaginative- Indonesian national revolution- new historicism
