Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Milli Folklor, cilt.2016, sa.112, ss.130-141, 2016 (Scopus)
© 2016, Milli Folklor Dergisi. All rights reserved.Bektashi who pulls down the supreme, vulgarizes the authority, normalizes the taboos through jokes in a ebullient, cheerful and carnivalesque way. While Bektashi offers us a rewiew of “world turned upside down” by means of the jokes, he especially takes advantage of a grotesque language and carnivalesque images which include contradiction, contrast, nonsense, vulgarity. Taken from this perspective, Bektashi character and its jokes can be consider the bearer of carnivalesque and grotesque imagination. So, the secret of the Bektashi humor which queries taboo issues by way of a grotesque language and images in a carnivalesque way is to has a collective smile which can embrace everyone. Those who situate Bektashi on all kinds of stage make complex religious and faith-related issues clear, detectable and understandable. İn this way they can also close the gab between transcendental being and human nature under favour of this imagined character and his jokes. In this framework the Bektashi jokes can be considered as an example of carnivalizationed literature which includes important part of art theory that based on the principle of unmasking sanctity attributed event, beings, institutions through seriocomic genres. Here’s, in this article firstly will be focused on social, cultural and political backgrounds which led us to perceive Bektashi as the bearer of carnavalesque imagination in the historical and sociological critique line and then will be try to analyze the carnivalesque nature of the Bektashi humor.