FOLKLOR-İDEOLOJİ-EDEBİYAT ÜÇGENİNDE SUAT TAŞER’İN DELİ DUMRUL’U

It's a sociologically inevitable phenomenon that the social and political changes occuring in societies evoke their reflections in cultural productions prominently. Since the 19th Century, when national identities began to take form along with romantic nationalism, folkloric artifacts which are significant conveyers of cultural recollections such as history and language, have confronted us as a field emphasized by ideological and literary movements, notably Social Sciences. In the world of 20th Century, when ideologies began to take form in political sense, folkloric artifacts undertook significant functions in culture policies envisaged by dominant ideologies for the new forms of Societies which they tried to build. The style of the folkloric artifacts, cultural codes they conveyed, and their functionality have been active components in this approach. In this sense, the intensifying process , which begins to head towards works of folk narrations, folk poetry, and folk literature in Turkish Literature after 1930s, gradually increases after the 1940s and this tendency becomes one of the significant sources fostering literature. At this point, substantial works of Turkish folklore such as epics, folktales, tales, legends have been released to the public within new perspectives and techniques. It can be seen that new pursuits in expressions and utterances have been embarked, like in 'Deli Dumrul - Ölüm ve Aşk' (Epic and Play) by Dede Korkut , which can be considered as the rewriting of one of his epics with a new understanding. This study aims to make a comparison between 'Deli Dumrul - Ölüm ve Aşk' (Epic - Play) by Suat Taşer and the original text of the Epic of Deli Dumrul and to examine how folkloric artifacts and cultural values tried to be transmitted into those artifacts have been modernized, adapted contemporarily and released ;the parts where the writer digressed from the souce text during the adaptation; to what extent the traditional context has been changed; and the components influential in the change of given works in terms of theme and form.