Year: 2019
Type: article
Abstract: Republican Child is an autobiographical work of Nihal Yeğinobalı that she \nwrites her memories. Memoirs provide information about periods and places in which \ncases take place beside the cases themselves. Moreover, memoirs can uncover \nhistorical cases, and also give information about the locations. This paper aims to \nidentify the information about social life, culture, geographical features and society \nin Manisa during the period of the Turkish War of Independence and first years of the \nTurkish Republic in Republican Child. Events in Republican Child begins with the birth \nof Nihal Yeğinobalı on 16 November 1927 and ends with the death and funeral of \nMustafa Kemal Atatürk on 10 November 1938. \nAlthough the memories take place for 11 years, Nihal Yeğinobalı goes back to \nprevious years to express some cases witnessed by the family elders. Besides Manisa; \nGördes, which is one of the towns of Manisa, and İstanbul also take place in the \nmemories. In this work, Manisa is a city which tries to bind up its bounds after the big \nfire, enthusiastically participates in the national celebrations, and has a secondary \nschool but not a high school yet. Furthermore, the reader knows Manisa where the \nfamous Tarzan of Manisa dries all its marshes, and where people make vine \ncultivation for living. The geographical and climate features of Manisa in the first \ndays of the republic, and social and cultural life in Manisa also take place in the work
Author: Yasemin Aslan
Language: Turkish
Topic: Historical Turkish Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2998119896