%0 Journal Article
%T Reinterpreting Ramayana: The (Re)Production of the Meanings of Power in ¡°Ramayana¡±, an East Javanese Shadow Puppet Performance Text
%A Basuki R.
%A Setiawan D.
%J K@ta : a Biannual Publication on the Study of Language and Literature
%D 2012
%I Petra Christian University
%X In this article we discuss the meanings of power that are produced/reproduced in an East Javanese shadow puppet show entitled Ramayana by Ki Sinarto. In Foucauldian perspective, the meanings of power are constantly intertwined with other issues, and in Ki Sinarto¡¯s Ramayana they are closely related to the state, revelation/women, family, and people. Despite the puppeteer¡¯s efforts in doing a 'subversive interpretation' of Ramayana, the Javanese concept of power still ¡®overpowers¡¯ his discourse. Addressing the contemporary Indonesian state, Ki Sinarto is propagating the concept of Javanese power from the late Mataram kingdom. He also proposes that women can have a legitimizing power as the bearers of revelation, but the discourse of women as distractors to men¡¯s career still surfaces. Ki Sinarto further pictures the main conflict of Ramayana as a dispute of an aristocratic family instead of woman. Finally, the relations between Javanese people and their leaders are not necessarily straightforward and linear
%K Javanese shadow puppet
%K Ramayana
%K power relations
%K state
%K women
%K family
%K people
%U http://puslit2.petra.ac.id/ejournal/index.php/ing/article/view/18501