What Exile Brings Along: Signs of Migration and Exile in the Novels Yezidin Kızı, Sürgün and Nilgün
What Exile Brings Along: Signs of Migration and Exile in the Novels Yezidin Kızı, Sürgün and Nilgün

Author(s): Yakup Çelik
Subject(s): Studies of Literature, Turkish Literature, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), Migration Studies
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Turkish literature; migration; novels; exile; Refik Halid Karay;
Summary/Abstract: Migration and exile are human tragedies that cannot be characterized. Since the beginning of time, the world is the scene of these tragedies. Migration is a mostly conscious, sometimes forced movement to a new life which aims to have better life conditions and styles. However exile is leaving a habitual, accepted life style usually under pressure and being sent away by force. Migration sometimes involves free will and desire; people are ready to a transition. However in exile, enforcement stands in the forefront; everything happens out of free will. In migration, there is a target to a better life or at least there is hope. On the other hand in exile, there is moving away of experiences, there is hopelessness and resentment. In author’s life, there were two exile periods after 1910. The first one was between 1913-1918 The second period was between 1922-1938. (For further info, see: Aktaş, 2014). The novels telling the tragedies of young girls are the products of the second period.

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