Molla Nasreddin : The Making of a Modern Trickster, 1906-1911 / Janet Afary and Kamran Afary.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Afary, Janet, author.

Afary, Kamran, 1957- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nasreddin, Hoca, active 13th century.

Nasreddin.

Molla Năsrăddin, 1866-1932.

Molla Năsrăddin.

Political satire.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 397 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (colour), digital, PDF file(s)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press Ltd, [2022]

Summary:

In the early 20th century, a group of artists and intellectuals reinterpreted the Middle Eastern trickster figure Nasreddin in their periodical Molla Nasreddin. They used folklore, visual art and satire to disseminate a consciously radical and social democratic discourse on religion, gender, sexuality and power in Transcaucasia and Iran. The periodical reached tens of thousands of people in the Muslim world, impacting the thinking of a generation. This book explores the milieu in which Molla Nasreddin was born, the way the periodical recreated the trickster trope, and the influence of European graphic artists, especially Francisco Goya, on the journal. It focuses on the most creative period, 1906-11, when the journal reflected the social and political concerns of three major upheavals: the 1905 Russian Revolution, the 1906-1911 Iranian Constitutional Revolution, and the 1908 Young Turk Movement.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures

Acknowledgements

Map of Safavid Empire

Map of Russian Expansion in Caucasus, 1878–1914

Google Map of Region (2021)

Introduction

PART I The World of the Journal

CHAPTER 1 South Caucasus at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

CHAPTER 2 The Staff and Major Contributors

CHAPTER 3 Tiflis and its Hybrid Artistic Community

PART II Reimagining the Folk Trickster and Rethinking Gender Norms

CHAPTER 4 The Wise Fool and the Trickster Nasreddin

CHAPTER 5 Recreating the Trickster Tales and Tropes in Azerbaijani Language

CHAPTER 6 A Champion of Women’s Rights

PART III The Influence of European Graphic Arts

CHAPTER 7 A Dialogue with Goya and Daumier

CHAPTER 8 A Conversation with Punch, Simplicissimus and the World of Art

Epilogue

References

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2022.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on July 4, 2023).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781474499538

1474499538

9781474499521

147449952X

OCLC:

1353788125