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- Title
Nasreddin Hodja's foolish wisdom: Slavic literary adaptations of a Turkish folk hero.
- Authors
SABATOS, CHARLES
- Abstract
The Turkish comic folk hero Nasreddin Hodja is known across the Muslim and former Ottoman world, but he also has a unique place in modern Slavic literatures (Russian, Bosnian/ Serbian, Bulgarian, and Czech). What is interesting in each of these works is the way that this character has been adapted as a transcultural icon, transforming his medieval Islamic spirit into something suitable for modern national literatures while preserving his essential comic qualities. Nasreddin's Slavic "afterlife" is not simply a forerunner of literary globalization, it also shows how exotic figures allow expanded freedom of expression under various forms of cultural repression.
- Subjects
MALE heroes in mythology; LITERARY adaptations; TURKISH folk literature; FOLK literature; SLAVIC literature
- Publication
World Literature Studies, 2016, Vol 8, Issue 4, p35
- ISSN
1337-9275
- Publication type
Article