A literary work commonly uses a city as the setting of the place where a story begins. The city chosen for it typically has its own sense of literary work. This is in accordance with the fact that Malang city is normally selected to be the setting of several literary works. That was the topic discussed in “Idrek for Humanity: Screen Capturing Malang” via online discussion held on 2 October 2021 by Universitas Negeri Malang (UM) that invited three speakers from universities that place in Malang. They are Wawan Eko Yulianto, Ph.D. from Universitas Ma Chung, Nurenzia Yannuar, Ph.D. from UM, and Ika Nurhayani, Ph.D., a lecture from the Faculty of Cultural Studies, Universitas Brawijaya.
The discussion begins with a creative writing activity that uses a certain city as the setting of the story. This activity was elivered by Wawan Eko Yulianto. According to him, this activity could gain the value of the story itself and also for the city. Several literary works applied Malang as the setting of place such as Lemah Tanjung by Ratna Indraswari Ibrahim, Pengalamanku di Daerah Pertempuran Malang Selatan by R.T. Djajadiningrat, Aloer-Aloer Merah by Ardi Wina Saputra, Tamu Kota Seoul by Yusri Fajar who is one of English Literature lectures in Brawijaya University. Even though the title and focus of that literary work is Seoul city, he delivered that “Dibagian awal, kita melihat titik berangkatnya adalah dari Malang” which translated “we would see Malang is the point of the story begin in the beginning part”.
Discussion about Malang city goes further and reaches the Malangan Local Language in such pop-culture works that presented by Nurenzia Yannuar from her view of sociolinguistics. She explained there are few differences between Javanese in the Malang area and the Central of Java. Start with the pronunciation of vocal words, vocabularies, and Walikan language with its own grammar which merely understandable for people who origin from Malang. She said that the existence of the Walikan language as grown due to the common use in platforms such as in Yowis Ben film where use Malang as the setting of place and a song with title Uklam-Uklam from Tani Maju & HS12.
The session ended with Ika Nurhayani’s explanation about the poetry study using linguistics analysis. She is the head of the Linguistics Magister Study Program, Faculty of Cultural Studies Brawijaya University. She delivered “linguistik itu tidak terpisah dari sastra” which translated “Linguistic and literature are not separated each other”, added the explanation about a linguistic’s branch which is stylistic to support her statement. Stylistic is a linguistic approach that is used to analyze literary work from metaphor, phonetic-phonology, morphology, type of language, syntax, and discourse. Furthermore, she also explains the relationship between linguistic and literature by giving an example of poem analysis Paris Le Pont Mirabeau by Guillaume Appolinaire. After explained about the poem that used Paris as a setting of place, she also mentioned another example that use Malang as the background with the title Gerimis Kecil di Jalan Jakarta, Malang by Sapardi Djoko Darmono.
The three speakers in the “Idrek for Humanity: Screen Capturing Malang” event deliver how Malang has an important role to be the setting of place for several literary works, a traditional literature work even contemporary works. Starting from poem, short stories, novels until films and songs which are part of pop-culture
Reference:
Warta FIB. (2021, October 3). Dosen FIB UB Menjadi Pemateri Kuliah Tamu IDREK for Humanity: Screen Capturing Malang. FIB News. https://fib.ub.ac.id/fcs-ub-lecturer-as-the-guest-lecturer-in-idrek-for-humanity-screen-capturing-malang/?lang=id
Yannuar, N. (2021, October 2). Idrek for Humanity [Video]. Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A63jsQ2XNL4
