Abstract:
Many people underestimate learning in pesantren. Muslim students are considered unable to keep up
with the times because of the rigidity of the pesantren rules. Meanwhile, literacy learning and
literary processing today seems to decrease with the development of modern art. The making of
literary works by a writer is highly influenced by his/her environment. Despite the rigidity of the
rules as considered by the people, there are many pesantren-based writers. This study aimed to
determine the imagination and creativity of literary texts produced by pesantren-based writers.
Heuristic, hermeneutic, and intertextual reading methods were performed eclectically to analyze the
content, values, and language styles in literary texts. Literary texts that become the focus of the study
were those written by pesantren-based writers i.e. poems written by Gus Mus, Ahmad Tohari's short
stories, and Habiburrahman El Shirazy's novels. This study found that the imagination and creativity
of the literature written by pesantren-based writers tend to be identical with the commitment and
quality of the creator's religiosity. It can be implied that the aspects of religiosity and the atmosphere
of pesantren that can blow up the imagination and creativity in literary processing can be adopted to
support literacy learning and literary processing by public educational institutions outside the
pesantren. |
