The Aesthetic of Hikayat Deli as Conflict Disengagement in Tanah Deli

Keywords

Esthetic, Hikayat Deli, Ethnic conflict, and Tanah Deli.

Abstract

This research discusses and analyses the content of Hikayat Deli’s text as the masterpiece in the treasure of Malay tradition literature. The research of the treasure of Malay tradition literature appears for bringing into the reality the human with cultural behavior and educated also has moral and good character because in fact those works will be a mirror to see and provide human needs. The values and norms which contain in the texts are the form of collective dreams of its society. The benefit will be as the lesson of philosophy and the nation personality building. Through the text, it can be traced and read metaphor the thought and the form and the appearance of the society and its author. The problem of this research is the creative framework of Hikayat Deli referred to the to the occasions which considered as the historical events based on the chronology which suited with the composition schemes. The second problem is how to use the texts in society and the authority, also from the point of view of its author. Therefore, its role can not be neglected as the result of literary convention. This research uses qualitative-naturalistic method, that is to observe one phenomenon from various kinds point of view to produce various ways to do something toward something, and the research uses perspective reception approach, that is to settle the text to the superiority of the place and the society. The relation between the researcher and the object appear in three levels; literary works as document, monument and symbol or beautiful structure. The research shows that Hikayat Deli reveals values and norms ad social documents, creation, creative composition and cultural reality and also history which not stop in the texts. Texts are only one of the element in a relation. The composition of Hikayat Deli texts, rise the awareness of the needs of harmony and peace that can be used as the separator of ethnic conflict which might exist in the society of Tanah Deli.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Wan Syaifuddin
PY  - 2018/11
DA  - 2018/11
TI  - The Aesthetic of Hikayat Deli as Conflict Disengagement in Tanah Deli
BT  - Proceedings of the International Seminar on Recent Language, Literature, and Local Cultural Studies (BASA 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 526
EP  - 530
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://www.atlantis-press.com/article/25906132
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