The Humor Produced from Cultural Schizophrenia: “Aşkımızın Meyvesi Aytek” / Kültürel Şizofreniden Üretilen Mizah: “Aşkımızın Meyvesi Aytek”
Turkish humor publishing, which takes its roots from oral culture, has formed its own tradition for a century and a half despite the troubles it has gone through from time to time, and many classic heroes have emerged from this tradition, shaped by the lines of powerful cartoonists. The heroes in...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cyprus International University
2021-08-01
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| Series: | Folklor/Edebiyat |
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| Online Access: | https://www.folkloredebiyat.org/Makaleler/151507816_folk.edb.107-9.pdf |
| Summary: | Turkish humor publishing, which takes its roots from oral culture, has formed its own
tradition for a century and a half despite the troubles it has gone through from time to
time, and many classic heroes have emerged from this tradition, shaped by the lines of
powerful cartoonists. The heroes in question have gained a folkloric meaning by settling in the common memory, such as Nasrettin Hodja, Bektashi, Karagoz, Kavuklu and
many other examples in traditional narratives. The subject of this article is the analysis
of the series, which is the narrative of one of these heroes and created by Umut Sarıkaya in the Uykusuz Magazine with the name “Aşkımızın Meyvesi Aytek (The Fruit
of Our Love, Aytek)” from the axis of the conflict of tradition and modernity. In the
aforementioned cartoon series, the story of a couple who adopted the Western lifestyle
as a whole and their children named Aytek, who represent peasantry, provincialism,
poverty and traditionalism in almost every detail, are told. The series mentioned in this
study has been tried to be analyzed with the semiotics approach. Although the conflict
between modernity and traditionalism was shown in the cartoons through his parents
and Aytek, it was found that this performance was presented in unusual roles as a result
of the research. It has been concluded that through the dissonance of the new generation prefering the old and the old generation prefering the new, this unique humor has
remarkable data in terms of presenting the consequences of the Westernization efforts
that has been going on in social life in Turkey for nearly two centuries and which can
also be described as a kind of “cultural schizophrenia”. |
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| ISSN: | 1300-7491 1300-7491 |