Can a place be allocated to Anti-Heroes in Children's Theater?

摘要

Heroes started to leave their position to anti-heroes in the post-modern era of our time, in which the trust in holistic and consistent mind and the values and norms created through that mind have eroded the belief in the conscious subject who constructs history has weakened and all the relationships established with figures of authority have been questioned. There is no doubt that the figure of hero has not completely disappeared in the scene of literature, art and history. Especially in non-Western societies like ours, stuck between modern and post-modern eras and being modernized belatedly, the reading of the relationship established with “hero and anti-hero” over a single definition would be misleading. In this paper, firstly, the subject regarding which actions and tendencies that the anti-heroes are considered as out of norm in the society and in the period of time that we live in will be discussed and the relationship that the educators, children and their parents establish with anti-heroes will be problematized. Then, the characteristics of the relationship between idealized heroes in most of the children's theatre texts which are used as educational purposes in Turkey and the children's world will be analyzed. Lastly, the question of what would change if anti-heroes were involved in this relationship will be argued.