| dc.description.abstract | High school curriculum puts English literature as one of the important subjects in welcoming
ASEAN Economic Community (AEC). Unfortunately the classes fail to discuss English Literature
because of the teachers’ lack of knowledge on literature. They study grammar like the usual Bahasa
Inggris class instead of literature. This poor condition has been reported by school teachers in a
favorite high school in town, Jember-Jawa Timur. I write this paper to discuss literature and its
changes in real world. Since the imaginative world presented in literary works, literature is taken
as unimportant subject by the common people in Indonesia. Moreover, literature has insufficient
portion in the school curriculum, even in Bahasa Indonesia, studying literature is stopped, it
vanishes from the school books. Therefore, this paper focuses on the advantages of recognizing the
relation of literature and real world, literature and its space as science, and literature and its chance
in creative industries as a motor and a link of the cultural diversities in welcoming AEC. Thereby,
literature is seen as a politics in this paper. | en_US |
