The Political Subject of Sufi Poets in the Discourse Order of Antagonism and Hegemony of the New Order

Abstract

The emergence of sufistic poetry in the period from 1970 to 1990 turned out to be inseparable from the dominance and hegemony of the New Order over the literary world. This has resulted in the lack of poems with the power of social criticism, on the contrary, poems that breathe Sufism are increasingly prevalent. Thus, this study seeks to find the background of the existence of Sufistic poetry in the 1970s to 1990s by examining the political subject of Jacques Ranciere against Sufistic poets in the order of antagonism and hegemonist discourse of the New Order based on the approach of Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe. The research method in this study is qualitative research with the Laclau Mouffe discourse analysis approach. The subject of this research is the political subject from a sample of Sufistic poets from the decade 1970 to 1990, while the object of this research is the discourse of domination and hegemony of the New Order. The results of the study show that first, Sufistic poetry became the strength of the poets of the decade from 1970 to 1990, especially two cross-generational poets at that time, namely Abdul Hadi W.M., and Acep Zamzam Noor. However, the analysis shows that sufistic poetry is not formed deterministically but is influenced by socio-political entities. Second,  the subject of the poet mentioned seeks to avoid the exclusion of the hegemonic and repressive power of the New Order through the accommodation of sufistic poetry. This is where "political action" emerged as an effort so that the wrong or these poets could be counted in the order and no longer become a scattered entity during the New Order period