kadar realisme magis dalam novel perempuan poppo karya dul abdul rahman

The main subject of this research is to bring back the myth, magic, and tradition of contemporary Indonesian literature i.e. Perempuan Poppo novel in globalization and modernization concept that increasingly prevalent. The issue is the author presents magical world, and then turn it off with realist thoughts and presenting modern mind with magical readings. He assigns Bugis-Makassar tradition as the object of social culture context with modernity and locality opposition and globalization in this novel. To solve the problem, magical realism perspective will be used. Magical realism theory is postmodern perspective to find out the symptom of magical tradition in modernization and literary work as a real world. First, the theory has been used to measure the level of magical realism in this research. Then, figure out the relation between the elements and function of structure element to determine the level of magical realism. And finally is analyzing social and cultural context to find the author�s position with these worlds and the idea that presents in that novel Perempuan Poppo. The author realizes the magical world existence in this novel. However, he separates it with the real world and difference with each other. He assumes that the existence of magical world disturbs the real world. The separation between the magical and real world makes this novel cannot be classified as magical realism literature. He hopes to present Bugis-Makassar society as a modern society and do not bothered with the existence of magical world