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KARAGÖZ AND HACİVAT: PROJECTIONS OF SUBVERSION AND CONFORMANCE

Number: 36 December 22, 2016
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KARAGÖZ AND HACİVAT: PROJECTIONS OF SUBVERSION AND CONFORMANCE

Abstract

This paper is the translation of James Smith’ article named “Karagöz and Hacivat: Projections of Subversion and Conformance” published in Asian Theatre Journal in 2004. Smith, after expressing history of theatre representations in Islamic world shortly, leads up to shadow puppetry known as karagöz in Turks, karagiozis in Greek. After giving brief introductory information about these plays, he gives examples of “food, sex, violence” in karagöz plays, which are the elements told as actual in nearly all carnivals according to Peter Burke in his book Popular Culture in Early Modern Europe. Subsequently, he analyzes shadow puppetry within the frame of Mikhail Bakhtin’s religious amusement theory. Peculiarly, he surmises that there is a serious similarity between the scene “enthronement of a fool and in the end of the carnival the fake king’s dethronement” in the aforementioned theory and “situation of Karagöz, who is brought to an important position by Hacivat and then try to beat surrounding people, and in the end all of his power taken from him”. In the final phase, Smith deals with the role of shadow puppetry to re-form self-identity of disadvantaged groups in the society and exemplify the issue over Turk and Greek societies. This paper is significant in terms of both Western amusement theories’ implementation on karagöz and karagiozis plays, and how these plays play role in forming a self-identification process.

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References

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Details

Primary Language

Turkish

Subjects

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Journal Section

Translation

Publication Date

December 22, 2016

Submission Date

August 26, 2016

Acceptance Date

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Published in Issue

Year 2016 Number: 36

APA
Aykaç, O. (2016). KARAGÖZ VE HACİVAT: BAŞKALDIRI VE İTAATİN YANSIMALARI. Selçuk Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, 36, 611-618. https://doi.org/10.21497/sefad.285511
AMA
1.Aykaç O. KARAGÖZ VE HACİVAT: BAŞKALDIRI VE İTAATİN YANSIMALARI. SEFAD. 2016;(36):611-618. doi:10.21497/sefad.285511
Chicago
Aykaç, Onur. 2016. “KARAGÖZ VE HACİVAT: BAŞKALDIRI VE İTAATİN YANSIMALARI”. Selçuk Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, nos. 36: 611-18. https://doi.org/10.21497/sefad.285511.
EndNote
Aykaç O (December 1, 2016) KARAGÖZ VE HACİVAT: BAŞKALDIRI VE İTAATİN YANSIMALARI. Selçuk Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi 36 611–618.
IEEE
[1]O. Aykaç, “KARAGÖZ VE HACİVAT: BAŞKALDIRI VE İTAATİN YANSIMALARI”, SEFAD, no. 36, pp. 611–618, Dec. 2016, doi: 10.21497/sefad.285511.
ISNAD
Aykaç, Onur. “KARAGÖZ VE HACİVAT: BAŞKALDIRI VE İTAATİN YANSIMALARI”. Selçuk Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi. 36 (December 1, 2016): 611-618. https://doi.org/10.21497/sefad.285511.
JAMA
1.Aykaç O. KARAGÖZ VE HACİVAT: BAŞKALDIRI VE İTAATİN YANSIMALARI. SEFAD. 2016;:611–618.
MLA
Aykaç, Onur. “KARAGÖZ VE HACİVAT: BAŞKALDIRI VE İTAATİN YANSIMALARI”. Selçuk Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, no. 36, Dec. 2016, pp. 611-8, doi:10.21497/sefad.285511.
Vancouver
1.Onur Aykaç. KARAGÖZ VE HACİVAT: BAŞKALDIRI VE İTAATİN YANSIMALARI. SEFAD. 2016 Dec. 1;(36):611-8. doi:10.21497/sefad.285511

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