An Ecocritical Reading: Demonizing the Nature Found In Batang’s Folktale

Dwi Fajar

Proceedings of the 3rd English Language and Literature International Conference, ELLiC, 27th April 2019, Semarang, Indonesia

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An Ecocritical Reading: Demonizing the Nature Found In Batang’s Folktale

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@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.27-4-2019.2285346,
    author={Dwi Ario Fajar},
    title={An Ecocritical Reading: Demonizing the Nature Found In Batang’s Folktale},
    proceedings={Proceedings of the 3rd English Language and Literature International Conference, ELLiC, 27th April 2019, Semarang, Indonesia},
    publisher={EAI},
    proceedings_a={ELLIC},
    year={2019},
    month={7},
    keywords={ecocriticism folktale nature},
    doi={10.4108/eai.27-4-2019.2285346}
}

Dwi Ario Fajar
Year: 2019
An Ecocritical Reading: Demonizing the Nature Found In Batang’s Folktale
ELLIC
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.27-4-2019.2285346

Dwi Ario Fajar¹^,*

1: Universitas Pekalongan, Indonesia

*Contact email: dwiariof@gmail.com

Abstract

In Indonesia, Folklore has been part of life, especially folktale which relates to the history of naming places. The issues of the environment become the new trend for literature but not Indonesian folktale and legend. The objective of the study aims to analyze an ecocritical reading of demonizing the nature found in Batang’s Folktale. This study uses the descriptive qualitative method and ecocriticism theory. It reveals the hostility between nature and culture, humans and demons. Surprisingly the image of nature symbolizes as demons.

Keywords: ecocriticism folktale nature

Published: 2019-07-08
Publisher: EAI

: http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/eai.27-4-2019.2285346