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Janet Afary and Kamran Afary, Molla Nasreddin: The Making of a Modern Trickster (1906-1911)

Year 2022, Issue: 60, 259 - 262, 31.12.2022
https://doi.org/10.18589/oa.1225469

Abstract

The trickster figure is a common cultural feature globally. A not-so-pious Muslim cleric, with foolish deeds and clever sayings, Nasreddin (Nasreddin Hoca in Turkish, Molla Nasreddin in Farsi, and Joha in Arabic) has been the most popular folk character and trickster figure in the Middle East for centuries. Molla Nasreddin: The Making of a Modern Trickster (1906-1911) investigates how a cartoon journal in South Caucasus, Molla Nasreddin, reproduced the trickster figure as a medium of social criticism, and how it reimagined “both the name and the persona of the trickster for modern political satire” to “disseminate a progressive discourse on power, religion, class, and gender”.

Janet Afary and Kamran Afary, Molla Nasreddin: The Making of a Modern Trickster (1906-1911)

Year 2022, Issue: 60, 259 - 262, 31.12.2022
https://doi.org/10.18589/oa.1225469

Abstract

The trickster figure is a common cultural feature globally. A not-so-pious Muslim cleric, with foolish deeds and clever sayings, Nasreddin (Nasreddin Hoca in Turkish, Molla Nasreddin in Farsi, and Joha in Arabic) has been the most popular folk character and trickster figure in the Middle East for centuries. Molla Nasreddin: The Making of a Modern Trickster (1906-1911) investigates how a cartoon journal in South Caucasus, Molla Nasreddin, reproduced the trickster figure as a medium of social criticism, and how it reimagined “both the name and the persona of the trickster for modern political satire” to “disseminate a progressive discourse on power, religion, class, and gender”.

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Primary Language Turkish
Journal Section BOOK REVIEW
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Sarp Kurgan This is me

Publication Date December 31, 2022
Published in Issue Year 2022 Issue: 60

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APA Kurgan, S. (2022). Janet Afary and Kamran Afary, Molla Nasreddin: The Making of a Modern Trickster (1906-1911). Osmanlı Araştırmaları, 60(60), 259-262. https://doi.org/10.18589/oa.1225469
AMA Kurgan S. Janet Afary and Kamran Afary, Molla Nasreddin: The Making of a Modern Trickster (1906-1911). OA. December 2022;60(60):259-262. doi:10.18589/oa.1225469
Chicago Kurgan, Sarp. “Janet Afary and Kamran Afary, Molla Nasreddin: The Making of a Modern Trickster (1906-1911)”. Osmanlı Araştırmaları 60, no. 60 (December 2022): 259-62. https://doi.org/10.18589/oa.1225469.
EndNote Kurgan S (December 1, 2022) Janet Afary and Kamran Afary, Molla Nasreddin: The Making of a Modern Trickster (1906-1911). Osmanlı Araştırmaları 60 60 259–262.
IEEE S. Kurgan, “Janet Afary and Kamran Afary, Molla Nasreddin: The Making of a Modern Trickster (1906-1911)”, OA, vol. 60, no. 60, pp. 259–262, 2022, doi: 10.18589/oa.1225469.
ISNAD Kurgan, Sarp. “Janet Afary and Kamran Afary, Molla Nasreddin: The Making of a Modern Trickster (1906-1911)”. Osmanlı Araştırmaları 60/60 (December 2022), 259-262. https://doi.org/10.18589/oa.1225469.
JAMA Kurgan S. Janet Afary and Kamran Afary, Molla Nasreddin: The Making of a Modern Trickster (1906-1911). OA. 2022;60:259–262.
MLA Kurgan, Sarp. “Janet Afary and Kamran Afary, Molla Nasreddin: The Making of a Modern Trickster (1906-1911)”. Osmanlı Araştırmaları, vol. 60, no. 60, 2022, pp. 259-62, doi:10.18589/oa.1225469.
Vancouver Kurgan S. Janet Afary and Kamran Afary, Molla Nasreddin: The Making of a Modern Trickster (1906-1911). OA. 2022;60(60):259-62.