‘억압’과 ‘자유’의 문턱에서 :『대지의 춤』에 나타난 ‘카스트 타 계급 간의 결혼’이 지닌 상징과 의미

Abstract

Oka Rusmini, a woman author that comes from Bali, in her novel “Tarian Bumi”, criticized the women condition in the Balinese aristocratic people. In this matter, the interesting one is that Tarian Bumi narrates about the handover of Brahmin social status of the female main character, due to the female main character married with the lower caste man, namely Sudra caste. With that kind of married, the Balinese noble female character had to face many obstacles, bad assumptions, economy struggles, etc. in pursuing her happiness. It can be concluded that Oka Rusmini took out the ‘a Cross-Caste Marriage’ topic to show the picture of Balinese women lives in feudalistic caste system and Balinese socio-culture that takes side on men (patriarchal society). Therefore, this research would discuss over how patriarchal caste system influenced Balinese women lives. This discussion would focus on the matter of Oka Rusmini’s opinion over ‘a Cross-Caste Marriage’ in Tarian Bumi related with Balinese women lives. Among several works of Oka Rusmini, this novel picked to be analyzed because Tarian Bumi is not only arguing about marriages between noble women with Sudra men, but also noble men married with Sudra women. For that reason, there are many pictures of ‘A Cross-Caste Marriage’ captured in Balinese society. Besides, it also said that Tarian Bumi portrayed women lives of various classes in Balinese society.