title: Carnivalesque Reading of Halide Edib Adivar’s The Clown and His Daughter
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metadata.value: Yılmaz, Victoria Bilge
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2024-03-29T16:48:03Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2024-03-29T16:48:03Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2023-12
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metadata.value: Yılmaz V. B. Carnivalesque Reading of Halide Edib Adivar’s The Clown and His Daughter. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies, 2023, vol. 15, issue 4, pp. 702–713. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2023.406
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu13.2023.406
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/45186
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metadata.value: Halide Edib Adıvar (1884–1964), prominent and revolutionary Turkish writer, wrote her novel
  The Clown and His Daughter in 1935 in English. With a colourful story of Rabia’s psychological,
  social, and physical development, Adıvar undertakes a meticulous re-examination of the
  social categories of her native land during an empire’s rapid moving into a state of a republic.
  This study will claim that Adıvar’s novel The Clown and His Daughter is a purely carnivalesque
  piece of work if analysed in terms of Bakhtin’s concept of the carnival. Mikhail Bakhtin rests
  the importance of the carnival sense of the world upon the transcending of every possible
  barrier between all living creatures in the universe. The theory of the carnival is infused with
  the atmosphere of freedom, excessiveness, challenge, rebirth, and bodily priorities. In a carnivalistic
  world, where a king can become a slave, an old woman can die while giving birth
  to a baby, or a man can unite with the whole world while consuming food. Bakhtin discusses
  such images under the term of the grotesque — an image of the bodies that constantly change
  from one form into another. Adıvar’s novel, in the same vein, focuses on the underlying unity
  between genders, communities, religions, races and human beings and animals. The setting
  and the characters in Adıvar’s novel can be recognised as carnivalistic because of their eccentricity,
  tendency to subvert social norms, and the urge to be able to feel the unity with the
  whole world. This study will conclude that Adıvar’s aim in writing this novel was to reveal the
  fundamental principle of a Turkish society — its social wealth that is indelibly marked by its
  endless varieties, differences, and fluctuating reality.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Asian and African Studies;Volume 15; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Halide Edib Adıvar
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: The Clown and His Daughter
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Bakhtin
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: carnivalesque
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Carnivalesque Reading of Halide Edib Adivar’s The Clown and His Daughter
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metadata.value: Article
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