Hilang dan Terbuang:Kritik Sastra Pascakolonial

Dua Karya Marco Kartodikromo*

Novi Diah Haryanti

Masiswa Program Magister Susastra

Fakultas Ilmu Budaya Universitas Indonesia

novi.diah@gmail.com

Abstract

This article aim to examine how Marco as the other view of identity that he poured in his work that were classified as “illegal literature” by the Dutch colonial government. The reading of the works of Marco, is expected to describe her figure as a poet, journalist, and pioneer of independence, as well as putting back the prodigal son Marco in the Indonesian literary treasures. Studies conducted on two works of Marco namely: Student Hidjo (2000) and Rasa Merdika (1924). Descriptive method of analysis with postcolonial theory will be used to view and dismantle the global white cultural constructions that carried West to East so it can open our eyes on the permanent effects of colonialism that is still to be felt. One of the effects described Marco is a feeling of inferiority and assume the West is a revered deity. The reading of both novels also show Marco criticism against the colonial government that places the native as the lowest class and issued various policies that make the indigenous (Bumiputera), a coolie in his own country.