LOCAL WISDOM IN KHRISNA PABICHARA’S NOVEL NATISHA PERSEMBAHAN TERAKHIR: MAGICAL REALISM’S PERSPECTIVE

This paper discusses the real and the magical narratives and traditions displayed through the parakang myths believed by the people of Sulawesi. Real and magical narratives are two contradictory things, but united in a novel by Khrisna Pabichara, Natisha Persembahan Terakhir. The purpose of this paper was to describe and explain the characteristics of magical realism related to tradition and modernism concept, and to know how the writer's surrounding influenced the delivery of voice that are considered marginal. This research used Wendy B. Faris theory about the five characteristics of magical realism. The method used in this research was narrative descriptive method obtained through novel or another supporting references. While the technique of data analysis was making the classification of data based on the theoretical concepts used. From this paper was known that the novel Natisha Persembahan Terakhir meet the five elements presented by Wendy B. Faris. This novel can be categorized into a group of magical realism and show about local wisdom about parakang and marriage tradition of Sulawesi society. The magical elements and traditions that exist in society are made up by the author as things that remain indispensable even though modernity has influenced the lives of societies and traditions that exist in society as an identity.