An Ecocritical Reading: Demonizing the Nature Found In Batang’s Folktale

Abstract

In Indonesia, Folklore has been part of life, especially folktale which relates to the history of naming places. The issues of the environment become the new trend for literature but not Indonesian folktale and legend. The objective of the study aims to analyze an ecocritical reading of demonizing the nature found in Batang’s Folktale. This study uses the descriptive qualitative method and ecocriticism theory. It reveals the hostility between nature and culture, humans and demons. Surprisingly the image of nature symbolizes as demons.