Talking about romance Native with Tourist

Denpasar (ANTARA News) - Professor of Udayana University, Prof. Dr. I Nyoman Darma Putra rate, the story of the meeting, friendship and love between people of Bali with foreign tourists, a dominant theme that emerged repeatedly in Bali literary works from the 1960s until now.
"Balinese literary works emerged against the background of the development of tourism in Bali, which was likely to move towards mass tourism," said Prof Darma Putra, a professor in the Department of Literature Faculty of Letters Indonesia University of Udayana in Denpasar, Thursday.
He said the development of mass tourism which creates conflicting feelings. On the one hand to welcome the economic benefits of tourism, as promised, but on the other hand was worried about the negative impact of tourism on Balinese culture and society.
Modern literature in the 2010 Bali experienced significant growth, as evidenced by the emergence of a novel in the mass media and publishing a book about it.
Bali Modern Literature books, published during the year 2010 as many as 13 titles, an increase from the previous year which recorded nine titles. The emergence of historical novels in modern Balinese literature became one of the phenomena that follow the latest trend in Indonesian literature.
Prof Darma Putra added, the author of the response to the ambiguous views on the impact of tourism can be traced in the works he wrote.
In the span of five decades, the 1960s to the 2000s, there were 14 short stories and novels that tourism background, which describes the relationship of friendship or romance Bali-Bule.
Story such as "My friend Hans Schmitter" by Nyoman Rasta Sindhu (1969), "Sanur still Bustling" (1971) work Baraas Faisal, "Liak Ngakak" (1978) Son of Mada's work, "American women killed in Ubud" (2002) work Gde Aryantha Soethama, and "Pole Depang Bajang Kayang-kayang" (2007) work Nyoman Manda.
Prof Darma Putra explained, there are many mixed mating pairs of the legendary, such as Ni Pollok, the girl with the painter Le Mayeur Bali, which left a number of works on canvas and the Museum Le Mayeur in Sanur Beach.
Pollok-life travel stories written in the book Le Mayeur Ni Pollok, a model of Kelandis Village, City of Denpasar. Similarly Rondji Ni couples with Antonio Blanco, Filipino artists in the village Ubud, Gianyar which also left a number of works of art that is now displayed at the Museum Blanco Ubud.
"The story of the journey of life-Ni Blanco Rondji been raised in the soap opera` Love `Fire Antonio Blanco, who played in 1997 at the quiz," said Darma Putra

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