THE FORMULA AND MODIFICATIONS OF SASAKALA FOR CONTEMPORARY CHILDREN’S READERS

Abstract

One of folktales in Sundanese culture is sasakala or legend. One documentation has been done by Sudaryat et.al (2009) that compiled 25 sasakala stories around West Java. In this context of research, the researchers only took 3 stories from Bandung Raya region to be analyzed. The theory of formulaic is taken as the grand theory for analyzing the pattern or formula of narrative structure in sasakala story of Bandung Raya. The second theory is children literature’s theory that focus in evaluating the content of children reading material, which specifically concern in values. Descriptive analytic method is implemented in this research. The steps are; first, find out the structure of narrative formula from sasakala story of Bandung Raya, then analyze the values based on the data that occurred in the formula of sasakala structure narrative. The result of this research is formula or a pattern of story sasakala from Bandung Raya. The pattern also portrays how the values hiding behind the structure form, and other information relates to believe that values describe how culture is holding an ideology that not in line with the spirit of the culture itself, especially instilling the values to the next generations in contemporary era. One proposed solution is to do a modification on the narrative structure of folktale, therefore the legacy will still stand with the positive impact for the society of their culture.