Prof. Dr. Faruk, S.U. (1); Dr. Cahyaningrum Dewojati, S.S., M.Hum. (2); Prof. Dr. Fadlil Munawwar Manshur, M.S. (3); Saeful Anwar, S.S., M.A. (4)
Tanggal/Date
1 2020
Kata Kunci/Keyword
Abstrak/Abstract
Nowadays magical Realism is the most popular literary genre in the world. This genre has strong
influences in literature as well as fine art and film. It is for this reason that people competence in working
with this genre is very important for developing Indonesian creative industry. Therefore, Magister
Program for Literary Studies Faculty of Cultural Sciences Gadjah Mada University necessities to have
a workshop program for investing people writing capability in this kind of genre. Target subject for
the program is Darussalam Literary Community whose activities located in Islamic Boarding House
(Pesantren) Darussalam, Ciamis, West Java. By using theory of Magical Realism and participatory
method in three days intensive course the program found that the member of community involved
in the course had strong potential capacity in literary writing. Although the first step of the program
focused in training for writing in realistic literary work, there was a surprising phenomenon indicated
the participant capability in writing magical realist work as well.
Keywords: Magical realism; pesantren; literature
