Madura Cultural Identity Construction in Contemporary Indonesian Literature

The rapid advancement of digital technology and mass communication has had a tremendous impact on human life. In the literary context, this condition undoubtedly affects the writer's thought, orientation, and creativity. The thinning boundaries of local and global cultures due to the "unifying" of this universe allow the stimuli and thoughts of people living in certain areas to penetrate the boundaries of space. In literary works, the results may no longer represent the thoughts and culture in which the author was born and grew up. This research will focus on the construction of Madurese literary cultural identity in the context of contemporary Indonesian literature. By using ethnographic research methods and deepened by the concept of collective cultural identity from Stuart Hall, it was found that literary life in Madura moves dynamically in the tug of war between local and global cultural roots, and a new generation of Madurese writers offers a new cultural identity construction that is more laden with social criticism and humanity.