Initiated from a scientific dichotomy between both literature and history on which one is more scientific and merely an art, that pushes researchers to integrate these domains in attempt to review a work of literature. Literature that embodies humane quality and possesses both personal and social dimension, as well as history that is able to uphold the social and humanistic content of a work, showed that the entity of influence from historians’ belief that they poured in attempt to embellish a tale or signify an opinion. In this qualitative study, researchers will investigate the thoughts of Pramoedya Ananta Toer and his historic novels through a review of historiographic. Therefore, historians’ subjectivities will be seen through their writings. The object used in this study is serial novels entitled Buru Tetralogy, which is full of humanitarian messages, historic knowledges, and literature aesthetics. From the investigation, researchers found out that the issue of humanity become the foundation of Pram’s thought, as well as the portrayal of resistance or fighting movement that was pictured by Pram in his works strengthen the correlation of history and literature. It can be inferred that the scientific existence between literature and history is not a dichotomy, yet literature and historic knowledge may work concurrently in shaping a better humanity society life. The subjective and imaginative literature work from Pram even can be used as a facility for a more humane history learning.
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