PEMBELAJARAN SASTRA MULTIKULTURAL DI SEKOLAH: APLIKASI NOVEL BURUNG-BURUNG RANTAU

Abstract

The learning of multiculturalism opens ones’ fundamental reality in society. This
article aims to describe the learning of multicultural literature at school with applying
to novel “Burung-burung Rantau” (BbR), a work of Y.B. Mangunwijaya in
Semiotics analysis. Indonesian multicultural literature is expected from the process
of ‘Indonesianisation’ from many good cultural expressions of local colour, nation,
and global-universal. With enthusiasm of posmodernisme, multicultural literature
can pierce religion limit, culture, class, ethnic, and nation. Novel BbR expresses
brainchild multicultural past event of tissue and actors: Anggi, Neti, Bowo, and
Candra. Brainchild multiculture in BbR among others covers: (1) the born of generation
post-Indonesia in educations values of multiculture, (2) the present generation
that flies freely to every where even to the foreign state or to their own world,
(3) the escape from the tradition ties and local cultures even from their national
culture so they have freedom in creativity, (4) the melting of local and national
culture, west and east, (5) education values of multicultural pierce in ethnic limits,
religion, nationality, class, and gender. Learning of multicultural literatures leads
to harmony with cultures of social transformation existences and life value changes
to global culture. For that case, immediate literature teachers are needed to realize
the multicultural paradigms.