The Dynamics of the Balinese Literature in the Present Day Bali
Keywords:
Balinese literature, babad, paswara, awig-awig, cultural heritageAbstract
Balinese literature has a significant role in the context of how the
Balinese have preserved their own cultural tradition up to now.
Even though the Majapahit Kingdom in the fourteenth century
strongly influenced the Balinese tradition in the past, but it
seems that the Balinese recently also look back at their cultural
tradition prior to the period of the Majapahit influence. There are
some crucial issues in relation to the above explanation: firstly,
there have been widely debated on the issue around the origin
of the Balinese tradition. On the one hand scholars argue that
the origin of Balinese tradition is not started from the East Java
period, but it was earlier than that it had been started prior to
the period of the Majapahit such as the Middle Java period in
the 8th to 9th century or, even, in the West Java Hindu tradition
that also played a major role. However, others have not convinced
with this argument; Secondly; due to globalization process, the
Balinese perceive that the only way to anticipate the impacts of
globalization is just to revitalize the local Balinese cultures by
seeking at the Balinese literatures as the local sources like the
babad, paswara, and awig-awig; Thirdly; to counter the negative
impacts of globalization, the Balinese use their local cultural
heritage so that they can maintain their cultural tradition that
not based on Balinese tradition, but also the Javanese tradition. It
is important to discuss such issue since the influences of pre and
post Majapahit cultural traditions have indeed influenced the
cultural identity of the Balinese. On top of this, to understand
the concept of multiculturalism in the present day Bali, one
needs to trace back the dynamic of interplay amongst arrays of
cultural traditions that have affected the origin of multicultural
society there
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