Keindahan dalam Hikayat Sultan Taburat

Hikayat Sultan Taburat written by Muhammad Bakir. Hikayat Sultan Taburat is one of adventure stories which is also included in the type of solace tale. This research used transliteration of Hikayat Sultan Taburat ML 259 version from Rias Anto Suharjo in 2019. Hikayat Sultan Taburat has a dominant aesthetic elements and function in it. Malay aesthetic theory by Bragunsky used to be able to reveal those purpose. The various elements of external aesthetic in Hikayat Sultan Taburat could be identified through the description of the beauty of clothing, the charm of the princess, garden, music, reception, warfare, ship, and the crowds of the country. The function of external aesthetic in Hikayat Sultan Taburat is to entertain the reader.

Haunted Oppressors: The Deconstruction of Manliness in the Imperial Gothic Stories of Rudyard Kipling and Arthur Conan Doyle

Building on Patrick Brantlinger’s description of imperial Gothic fiction as “that blend of adventure story with Gothic elements”, this article compares the narrative formula of adventure fiction to two tales of haunting produced in a colonial context: Rudyard Kipling’s “The Mark of the Beast” (1890) and Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Brown Hand” (1899). My central argument is that these stories form an antithesis to adventure fiction: while adventure stories reaffirm the belief in the imperial mission and the racial superiority of the British through the display of hypermasculine heroes, Kipling’s and Conan Doyle’s Gothic tales establish connections between imperial decline and masculine failure. In doing so, they destabilise the binary construction between civilised Western self and savage Eastern Other and thus anticipate one of the major concerns of postcolonial criticism. This article proposes, therefore, that it is useful to examine “The Mark of the Beast” and “The Brown Hand” through a postcolonial lens.

Moros in America

This chapter talks about Moros and Americans negotiating an increasingly globalized world beyond colony and metropole. It mentions a vernacular dime novel about the St. Louis World's Fair published in 1904 titled Uncle Bob and Aunt Becky's Strange Adventures at the World's Great Exposition. It also describes how overseas colonies appeared to a skeptical metropolitan public and how cultural producers appropriately portrayed the America's foreign subjects. The chapter mentions the U.S. newspapers that followed the Moros closely as they met with presidents, performed for midwestern crowds, took in the Manhattan skyline, and embraced collegiate life. It cites the Moros' appearance in assorted fictions, such as comic operas, children's adventure stories, radio serials, and motion pictures that manufactured Muslim colonial subjects and presented them in varied ways to a curious public.

Konsepsi Raja Melayu dalam Hikayat Petualangan Ajaib Hikayat Kemala Bahrain

This article explains the views of the Malay community regarding the concept of a king in one of the magical adventure stories, entitled Hikayat Kemala Bahrain ML 443 (HKB). HKB is one of the classic Malay magical adventures stored in the National Library of the Republic of Indonesia. HKB tells about the adventures of a king in finding his identity as the heir to the kingdom. The results of this study indicate that HKB carries the idea of ​​the Malay king as the caliph on earth (Ḍillullah fī al-‘ālam). However, in formulating the concept of king's leadership, the Malay community was still trapped in the idea of ​​god-king spiritualism (devarāja spiritualism) which became one of the criteria attached to the Malay king. Based on the king's conception presented by HKB, it is clear that the Malay worldview aspires to a leader or king who upholds political and state ethics based on noble moral values ​​that are relevant to various situations and conditions. --- Abstrak: Artikel ini menjelaskan pandangan masyarakat Melayu mengenai konsep raja dalam salah satu hikayat petualangan ajaib, yang berjudul Hikayat Kemala Bahrain ML 443 (HKB). HKB merupakan salah satu hikayat petualangan ajaib melayu klasik yang tersimpan di Perpustakaan Nasional RI. HKB bercerita tentang petualangan seorang raja dalam menemukan identitas dirinya sebagai pewaris kerajaan. Penelitian ini merupakan penelitian kepustakaan. Hasil penelitian ini menunjukkan bahwa HKB mengusung gagasan tentang raja Melayu sebagai khalifah di muka bumi (Ḍillullah fī al-‘ālam). Namun, dalam merumuskan konsep kepemimpinan raja, masyarakat Melayu masih terjebak pada gagasan tentang spiritualisme dewa-raja (devarāja spiritualism) yang menjadi salah satu kriteria yang melekat pada raja Melayu. Berdasarkan pada konsepsi raja yang ditampilkan HKB maka terlihat jelas bahwa pandangan dunia Melayu mencita-citakan pemimpin atau raja yang menjunjung tinggi etika politik dan kenegaraan yang berbasis pada nilai-nilai moral yang luhur yang relevan dengan berbagai situasi dan kondisi. Keywords: Magical Adventure Stories, Malay King Concept, Leader Ethics, Hikayat Kemala Bahrain. Kata Kunci: Hikayat Petualangan Ajaib, Konsepsi Raja Melayu, Etika Kepemimpinan, Hikayat Kemala Bahrain.

Public library circulation records: What do they reveal about users’ reading preferences?

This study investigates the reading preferences of young users of public libraries located in different districts of Tehran. The study uses a quantitative bibliometric method. It was carried out through an analysis of the online borrowing data recorded in the circulation departments of six Tehran public libraries ranked 3 by the Iran Public Libraries Foundation. The books borrowed by 12–18-year-old library users were analysed using Excel. The data shows that the users, regardless of their gender, preferred to borrow books not related to their coursework (non-supplementary books). Novels, adventure stories and fantasy were the genres most preferred by the users. Male and female youth, however, exhibited different reading preferences.

“What Kind of Soviet Citizen Will You Grow into?”: Ukrainian Adventure for Adolescents in the Stalinist Epoch

This article analyzes a number of Soviet Ukrainian adventure narratives written during the 1930-40s, including the novels “Lakhtak” (“Lakhtak,” 1934) and Shkhuna “Kolumb” (Schooner “Columbus,” 1940) by Mykola Trublaini, Shkola nad morem (A School by the Sea, 1937) by Oles' Donchenko, Hospodari Okhots'kykh hir (The Owners of the Okhotsk Mountains, 1949) by Ivan Bahmut, and several short stories. This entertaining genre was used to educate its young readers about their place and aims in the world, as well as about the boundaries of the newly-forged Soviet identity and its meaning. This period witnessed a radical change in the criteria for defining group identity, as proposed to young readers: ethno-national markers were substituted by belonging to an ideological community and by class affiliation. As a result, although anyone originating from outside the Soviet borders was perceived as a menace, some foreigners of a “correct political orientation” could be recognized as potentially belonging to “our” community. At the same time, this change implied that there were hidden “enemies” among alleged “in-group” members, which justified the mobilized state of the group identity. The adventure stories analyzed here also shed light on the fostering of a sense of Union-wide unity through the parallels they drew between the experiences of young Ukrainian readers and those of their counterparts in faraway regions of the USSR.

El legado de Jules Verne entre el imaginario literario y la modernidad: Perspectivas geográficas e históricas / Jules Verne's Legacy between the Literary Imagination and Modernity: Geographical and Historical Perspectives

ABSTRACTAt the time of including the components of scientific disclosure and adventure stories in the structures of fiction, the Universal Literature found in the leading figure of Jules Verne one of its most genuine exponents. His singularity has transcended his own time, perpetuating the advances of the modern age up to our days, as an unusual notoriety of this French writer. Nevertheless, and beyond the literary imaginary, geographical and historical seasonings are the ones that predominate in the work of Verne, and several of which are part of the famous compilation: Extraordinary Journeys.RESUMENAl momento de incluir a los componentes de divulgación científica y los relatos de aventuras en las estructuras de ficción, la Literatura Universal halló en la figura de Jules Verne a uno de sus exponentes más genuinos. Su singularidad ha trascendido su propia época, perpetuando los avances del mundo moderno hasta nuestros días, como una inusitada notoriedad de este escritor francés. No obstante, y más allá del imaginario literario, los condimentos geográficos e históricos son los que mayormente predominan en la obra de Verne; varios de los cuales, forman parte de la famosa compilación: Los Viajes Extraordinarios.

The fairy-tale repertoire of A. S. Kozhemyakina collected by Omsk local historian I. S. Korovkin (based on materials of the folklore archive of the Omsk State Pedagogical University)

The article is devoted to the analysis of fairy-tale material from the folklore collection of the Omsk local historian I. S. Korovkin whose wide collection of folklore materials is stored in the folklore archive of the Omsk State Pedagogical University. The article will focus on the texts of fairy tales written by a collector from a Siberian performer Anastasia Stepanovna Kozhemyakina, manuscripts of these recordings are stored in the folklore archive of the Pedagogical Uni- versity. Of the 40 fairy tales recorded by Korovkin from the performer, the author of the article was able to identify (from archival records and published materials) 36 texts. The repertoire represents the Russian old-time tradition of Siberia. Tales by A. S. Kozhemyakina reflect the process of the existence of a folklore text in the oral tradition (which is typical for the late XIX - early XX centuries). The bearers of the tradition have a certain “baggage” or a set of elements specific for a particular genre (poetic, content) in order to “form” a text from these elements when reproducing it. "Forming" a fairy tale, Kozhemyakina takes out any element, image, plot episode, etc. from her fairy-tale "baggage". It includes not only fairy-tale, but also epic episodes, formulas, elements, as well as images, plot conflicts from adventure stories or novels. Fairy-tale contaminations are also peculiar. They are as well due to the specifics of the oral existence of fairy tales. A special publication of this fairy-tale heritage with scientific commentary on each text is needed.