Ankara : Türk Edebiyatı Bölümü, İhsan Doğramacı Bilkent Üniv., 2013.Thesis (Master's) -- Bilkent University, 2013.Includes bibliographical references leaves 115-120.The existence of a tradition of Islamist humor seems imperceptible after an
investigation of magazines published during the republican era in Turkey. The
emergence of such a genre coincides with the political milieu of 2000s. Literary
works that contain characteristics of Islamist humor of the contributors of Cafcaf
magazine appear as proper instances to inspect such a genre.
Unimaginable coexistence of the concepts of religion and humor within a
long lived humor magazine during the reign of a party with Islamist tendencies
cannot be regarded as coincidence. The concept of humor, characteristically
determined as an instrument of political criticism against the governing parties,
became a tool of supporting the ruling party as regards Islamist humor in Turkey in
2000s.
The aim of this study is to investigate such an alternative genre of humor in
Turkey, its characteristics and rationale, regarding its relationship with the political
rule and its praxis of discourse. In this context, Cafcaf magazine, which has been
published since 2007, and novels of one of its contributors Ömer Faruk Dönmez,
Hamza (2012) and Bir Yobazın Günlüğü (2013) are chosen to expose this
relationship. The examples, determined as instruments of Islamist ideology, reflect
the ruling political tendencies and their hegemony on daily life practices instead of
literary concerns.Sevinç, GizemM.S
