Discredit aesthetics: A Bakhtinian approach to novels of Leylâ Erbil

Leylâ Erbil, one of the distinguished authors of Turkish literature, wrote her first works with a modernist attitude that the 1950 Generation influenced and determined each other in form and content in art. In Erbil's works, whose basic qualities are characterized as "revolting", "destructive", "contravene", expresses the irreconcilable opposition criticism; humor, especially irony, that challenges any vertical hierarchy that deprives people of their fundamental rights over power relations. The terms of carnivalesque and grotesque, which Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin made widespread in literary terminology as well as social sciences by the main purpose to discredit, were seen as two key terms in explaining the works of the author, who described herself as socialist and Freudian. Erbil creates a narrative world that happen in the public sphere in a carnivalesque manner where hierarchies are turned upside down, the system of bodily and linguistically valid hierarchical values is reduced to a rhizomatic level, and crude sexuality is displayed in a ironic language accompanied by crude gestures and facial expressions with bodily waste and bodily anomalies. In this world, an irreconcilable opposition exists in the face of power devices, authorities, and sexist attitudes. Erbil uses a new way of spelling to make visible point of view as an effective toll. The texture of author's novels is analysed analytically and eclectical via their deep meaning using the two terms of Bakhtin mentioned above.