مجلة حفريات المعرفة
Volume 5, Numéro 2, Pages 2-10
2025-12-01

Transcultural Adaptations : Exploring Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil's Aşk-ı Memnu & It's Screen Adaptations In Turkiye, Spain & India

Authors : Shamenaz Bano .

Abstract

We are living in the digital age, an age where people are not so much inclined towards reading books and are more and more interested in watching stuff on the internet. To make people aware of the literature of their country and other parts of the world it is necessary to adapt literary text into visual content. With the advancement of technology, adaptation of literary text into film or drama is gaining momentum, leading to the popularity of the text. So, now literary texts are being adapted into screen presentations around the world and Turkiye is not apart from it. There are many successful screen adaptations of literary texts written by Turkish writers. One such work is Aşk-ı Memnu (Forbidden Love) by Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil, a prominent voice in Turkish literature. Although he has written many successful creative pieces, his novel, Aşk-ı Memnu is one such masterpiece which has been adapted not only in the native country of the novelist but also in Spain and India. In my paper, I want to discuss the adaptation of the famous classical Turkish text, Aşk-ı Memnu which has been successfully adapted not only in its country but also in Spain and India and what are the transformations which have taken place with the change in time and geographical boundary.

Keywords

Transcultural Adaptation, Digital age, Turkish Literature, Screen adaptation.