The Heroine’s Journey: Sampling Sabahattin Ali’s Short Story Hasanboguldu /Kadın Kahramanın Yolculuğu: Hasanboğuldu Hikâyesi Örneği

This study is based on an islamic folk narrative dating back to Iran, that is also present in original Turkish people’s narrations residing in Mount Ida. This very popular folk narrative: the Legend of Sarıkız still has an influence on today’s oral literature all around Mount Ida. The variant that this study works upon focuses on a virgin who is in disfavor.This variant also forms the backbone of Sabahattin Ali’s Hasanboğuldu, which is a short story existing in his work Yeni Dünya. Upon approving the narrator’s quest request, Hacer who is also a Turkmen herself, takes the narrator to the land... Mehr ...