Pergulatan Identitas Lokal dalam Sastra Daerah Terancam Punah: Hegemoni Budaya, Adaptasi, dan Strategi Resistensi Komunitas

Abstract

Endangered regional literature is not merely an aesthetic issue, but a battleground for local identity amid the pressures of modern cultural homogenization, national language dominance, and global market logic. Regional languages and literature embody collective memory, moral values, local knowledge, and markers of social solidarity that define a community's symbolic existence. In this context, the decline of regional language use is not neutral; it is tied to power relations that position dominant languages as more valuable symbolic capital in educational, professional, and digital media spheres. This study employs a qualitative-descriptive approach based on a critical literature review, utilizing the frameworks of cultural hegemony, identity studies, and postcolonial literary criticism to examine regional literature as a space of both resistance and negotiation. The findings indicate that endangered regional literature functions not only as an archive of tradition, but also as an adaptive practice that negotiates continuity and social change. Communities respond to external pressures through youth training, digital documentation, heritage language education, creative code-switching on social media, and the production of counter-discourses that resist the erasure of local identity. The main conclusion of this study is that the sustainability of regional literature depends on the community's ability to transform tradition from a passive preservation object into an active, adaptive, and counter-hegemony cultural strategy.