The Doxa and Legitimation of Literacy: Case of Yogyakarta Literature Arena

Keywords

legitimacy; literature arena; Doxa

Abstract

The literary arena is a battle site for litterateurs to gain recognition or legitimacy. The success of the litterateur is determined by litterateur’s strategy to manage his capitals, both in literature technically and in taking action to position themselves in the local and national literature arena. In addition to managing capitals, litterateurs are also in their respective doxas. Doxa is a cultural element so that the arena and literary production become geo-cultural. This paper concerns about the legitimacy of literacy in Yogyakarta based on Bourdieu’s scheme which divides the hierarchy of legitimacy into three levels, namely specific, bourgeois, and popular. The material object of this study is the arena and litterateurs in Yogyakarta. This study assumes that the hierarchical layers of the Yogyakarta literary society provide a more diverse complexity due to the primordial doxas. The results of the study show that the legitimacy of literature in Yogyakarta is called the main literary writer (tenanan), special literary writers, in-between writers (nanggung), popular writers, and cheap writers (ecek-ecek).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Aprinus Salam
PY  - 2018/11
DA  - 2018/11
TI  - The Doxa and Legitimation of Literacy: Case of Yogyakarta Literature Arena
BT  - Proceedings of the International Seminar on Recent Language, Literature, and Local Cultural Studies (BASA 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 360
EP  - 366
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://www.atlantis-press.com/article/25906110
ID  - Salam2018/11
ER  -