REŞAT NURİNİN RECM HİKÂYESİ VE HALİDE EDİP’İN VURUN KAHPEYE ROMANI ÜZERİNE BİR KARŞILAŞTIRMA

Turkish

as the constituent novelists of the Republican Period, mainly dealt with the national struggle of the Turkish nation and focused on a number of such topics common during the national struggle period as illiteracy, poverty and superstitious beliefs as the widespread problems to overcome. In this regard, as the significant problems of that period, the struggles against illiteracy, poverty and superstitions were the issues handled in the Recm story in Resat Nuri's first story book of "Recm, Genlik ve Gzellik" and in the novel "Vurun Kahpeye" by Halide Edip. In our presentation, we will deal with the similarities and differences of these two literary works based on comparative method. The main reason why these two works were handled in this study is that the notion of recm (stonning to death) was never addressed except for these literary works. Recm, as a punishment practice based on sharia rules, was covered in these novels depending on the conditions of that period and in these works it was used as a symbolic punishment practice.