TRANSFORMASI NILAI BUDAYA DARI SUMBER SEJARAH KE KARYA SASTRA KONTEMPORER

Abstract

This research examines the transformation of cultural values 
from Indonesian historical sources to contemporary literature, 
where history and literature form a dialectic of national identity 
inheritance amidst post-Reformasi socio-political changes. The 
background of the problem includes an interdisciplinary gap in 
the digital reinterpretation of values such as heroism, religiosity, 
social hierarchy, patriarchy, loyalty, and custom, which have 
evolved from feudal legitimacy to contemporary critique, as 
seen in the works of Eka Kurniawan and Ayu Utami. The 
research aims to identify dominant values, forms of 
transformation (preservation, modification, deconstruction), 
authorial strategies, influencing factors, and mapping 
evolutionary patterns for a literary-historical study framework. 
The descriptive qualitative method uses thematic content 
analysis of 20 primary historical sources (the Kedukan Bukit 
inscription, the Javanese chronicle) and 15 contemporary novels 
(Lelaki Harimau, Saman), triangulated with interviews with 10 
experts, NVivo codification, and pattern matching of Kristeva
Derrida theory based on Miles-Huberman (2014). The results 
show a dominant transformation of modification (45%) and 
deconstruction (25%), with the main factors being globalization 
(40%), author ideology (30%), and the demands of Gen Z 
readers (30%), changing the function of values from sacred
legitimacy to profane-social criticism, enriching literature as a 
bridge of hybrid identity in the digital era.