Ahmad Abu Rifai, 2211416020 (2021) POWER RELATION IN SUNDANESE MYTH AS REFLECTED IN KURNIAWAN’S MAN TIGER. Under Graduates thesis, Universitas Negeri Semarang.

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Abstract

Myth is an important part of the history of Indonesian civilization. The diversity that exists in Indonesia accommodates the emergence of various myths. In this study, the researcher tries to reveal the position of tigers as a myth believed in Sundanese society. Tiger takes an essential part in Sundanese community; therefore, special relations built in the social and cultural practices are assumed to exist. In conducting the research, textual analysis by using Kurniawan‘s Man Tiger as the primary data was employed. The researcher analyzed how the tiger as a symbol in Sundanese myth represents a specific power relation in society. Levi-Strauss‘ structuralism was used. After determining units, episodes, and mythemes, binary opposition was used to reveal the meanings in the myth structure. The results of the study show that Man Tiger has eight episodes containing various focuses namely Komar and Nuraeni‘s wedding, Komar‘s torture towards Nuraeni, house moving, dispute and tiger inheritance, Nuraeni‘s and Anwar Sadat‘s Infidelity, death of Marian and Komar, the assassination of Anwar Sadat, and Margio‘s confession. Sundanese tiger myth is represented in several mythemes contained in Episode II, Episode IV, Episode V, Episode VI, Episode VII, and Episode VIII, namely the position of tigers‘ owners in the society due to their tremendous power, the disputes between Margio and Komar, the tiger inheritance, and the beliefs of myth developed in the community. It is also found out that there are different power relations established by two basic situations, namely Sundanese traditional and urban societies. In Sundanese traditional society, tiger owners are considered heroes because they protect people from both invaders and robbers. Because of this, they are put in a high place. These beliefs and power relations are very evident in the sphere of traditional society, while they begin to fade in the urban society. In other words, Sundanese traditional society has a myth�based-power relation showing that the tigers‘ owner have notable and high position, while the urban society socially has no power relation based on myth. The power relation established in urban society can only be seen in the conflict between Margio and Komar.

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