From Miniature to YouTube: Nasreddin Hodja’s Enduring Figure. A Folk Hero’s Medium Transmutations Throughout History in Turkey
From Miniature to YouTube: Nasreddin Hodja’s Enduring Figure. A Folk Hero’s Medium Transmutations Throughout History in Turkey

Summary/Abstract: This paper aims to showcase contemporary manifestations of traditional folklore hero Nasreddin Hodja, a figure that has withstood the passage of time and remained relevant in the Turkish culture, partly assisted by media and technology. As we enter the digital era, I believe that we stand witnesses to a new cultural revolution, drawing on Marshall McLuhan’s description of the paradigm change that dawned with the invention of the printing press. I will use the adaptation theory to exemplify how the figure of Nasreddin Hodja has remained broadly the same throughout the past centuries, but how the context and media used for storytelling his tales have changed.

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