Akademik Dil ve Edebiyat Dergisi

Yazarlar: Erhan ŞEN

Konular:Edebi İncelemeler

DOI:10.34083/akaded.796048

Anahtar Kelimeler:Children’s literature,Carnivalism,Adult authority,Pedagogical function

Özet: In this study, the concept of carnivalism of Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975), one of the contemporary literary theorists, was explained, and its reflections on children's literature and its pedagogical function were discussed. Children's literature is primarily a literary production form based on adult performance. The child is only the consumer of the text. Hence, it can be mentioned that the adult perspective is dominant in children's literature. However, some texts written with a carnivalistic perspective demolish this authority, equip the children with a power that transcends the society or the adult hegemony. Through the carnivalesque characters, the child perceives that the individual can sometimes be stronger than social norms, have a foresight about how ideological devices will shape the individual, acquires a culture of criticism, and acquires awareness of the norms imposed by the sociocultural mechanism. Another important purpose of the carnivalism in children's literature is that it serves to treat the phenomenon of violence with a method suitable for children.

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