Child Workers in Sabahattın Ali's Stories

Osman Oruç

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Child Workers in Sabahattın Ali's Stories

Authors:

Osman Oruç

Publisher:

Fırat University

Journal:

Fırat Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi Vol.33 Issue 1, pp.117-123

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

1/2023

Document Language:

Turkish

Document ID (Org No.):

2001282707

pISSN:

1300-9702

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Abstract:

 After Ömer Seyfettin, who took the story as an independent genre independent of the novel and made this understanding accepted, Sabahattin Ali constitutes a breaking point in the history of Turkish short stories. Sabahattin Ali, without compromising the story, deals with the issues brought to the agenda by the socialist realist storytellers who clustered around the Vakit Newspaper in the 1930s, with a propagandist attitude. Child labor, which has always been a reality of Turkey, is also brought to the fore in some stories of Sabahattin Ali, a socialist realist artist. Sabahattin Ali, by processing the social injustice observed in social life through child workers, brings the aforementioned problem to the attention of the reader in a much stronger way, almost as a cry. In the three stories that are the subject of the study, the conflict between those who work hard with their smallweak bodies and consume less, and those who work hard or consume a lot with their fatoversize bodies are handled. In this study, it will be focused on the reality of child workers forced to work by the corrupt order that emerged as a result of social injustice in Sabahattin Alis stories Apartman, Arabalar Beş Kuruşa and Ayran.

 After Ömer Seyfettin, who took the story as an independent genre independent of the novel and made this understanding accepted, Sabahattin Ali constitutes a breaking point in the history of Turkish short stories. Sabahattin Ali, without compromising the story, deals with the issues brought to the agenda by the socialist realist storytellers who clustered around the Vakit Newspaper in the 1930s, with a propagandist attitude. Child labor, which has always been a reality of Turkey, is also brought to the fore in some stories of Sabahattin Ali, a socialist realist artist. Sabahattin Ali, by processing the social injustice observed in social life through child workers, brings the aforementioned problem to the attention of the reader in a much stronger way, almost as a cry. In the three stories that are the subject of the study, the conflict between those who work hard with their smallweak bodies and consume less, and those who work hard or consume a lot with their fatoversize bodies are handled. In this study, it will be focused on the reality of child workers forced to work by the corrupt order that emerged as a result of social injustice in Sabahattin Alis stories Apartman, Arabalar Beş Kuruşa and Ayran.

 After Ömer Seyfettin, who took the story as an independent genre independent of the novel and made this understanding accepted, Sabahattin Ali constitutes a breaking point in the history of Turkish short stories. Sabahattin Ali, without compromising the story, deals with the issues brought to the agenda by the socialist realist storytellers who clustered around the Vakit Newspaper in the 1930s, with a propagandist attitude. Child labor, which has always been a reality of Turkey, is also brought to the fore in some stories of Sabahattin Ali, a socialist realist artist. Sabahattin Ali, by processing the social injustice observed in social life through child workers, brings the aforementioned problem to the attention of the reader in a much stronger way, almost as a cry. In the three stories that are the subject of the study, the conflict between those who work hard with their smallweak bodies and consume less, and those who work hard or consume a lot with their fatoversize bodies are handled. In this study, it will be focused on the reality of child workers forced to work by the corrupt order that emerged as a result of social injustice in Sabahattin Alis stories Apartman, Arabalar Beş Kuruşa and Ayran.

 Hikâyeyi romandan bağımsız müstakil bir tür olarak alan ve bu anlayışı kabul ettiren Ömer Seyfettinden sonra Türk hikâye tarihinde Sabahattin Ali bir kırılma noktası teşkil eder. 1930lu yıllarda Vakit Gazetesi etrafında kümelenen toplumcu gerçekçi hikâyecilerin propagandist bir tavırla gündeme getirdikleri meseleleri Sabahattin Ali kuru ideolojiyi geri planda tutarak, hikâyeden taviz vermeden ele alır. Öteden beri bir Türkiye gerçeği olan çocuk işçiler toplumcu gerçekçi bir sanatçı olan Sabahattin Alinin kimi hikâyelerinde de gündeme getirilir. Sabahattin Ali, toplumsal hayatta gözlenen sosyal adaletsizliği çocuk işçiler vasıtasıyla işleyerek söz konusu sorunu çok daha güçlü bir biçimde, adeta bir çığlık halinde okuyucunun dikkatine sunar. Çalışmaya konu üç hikâyede küçükçelimsiz bedenleriyle çok çalışıp az tüketenler ile semirmişhaddinden fazla iri bedenleriyle az çalışıp yahut hiç çalışmayıp çok tüketenlerin çatışması işlenir. Bu çalışmada Sabahattin Alinin Apartman, Arabalara Beş Kuruşa ve Ayran adlı hikâyelerinde sosyal adaletsizliğin bir sonucu olarak ortaya çıkan bozuk düzenin çalışmaya ittiği çocuk işçiler gerçeği üzerinde durulacaktır.

Article Details

Child Workers in Sabahattın Ali's Stories

Authors:

Osman Oruç

Publisher:

Fırat University

Journal:

Fırat Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi Vol.33 Issue 1, pp.117-123

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

1/2023

Document Language:

Turkish

Document ID (Org No.):

2001282707

pISSN:

1300-9702

Sabahattin Ali

Child Labor

Social Realism

Social Injustice

Sabahattin Ali

Çocuk İşçiler

Toplumcu Gerçekçilik

Sosyal Adaletsizlik

Issues

Article Details

Authors: Osman Oruç

Publisher: Fırat University

Journal: Fırat Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi Vol.33 Issue 1, pp.117-123

Document Type: Article

Publication Date: 1/2023

Document Language: Turkish

Document ID (Org No.): 2001282707

pISSN: 1300-9702

Issues

Authors:

Osman Oruç

Publisher:

Fırat University

Journal:

Fırat Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi Vol.33 Issue 1, pp.117-123

Document Type:

Article

Publication Date:

1/2023

Document Language:

Turkish

Document ID (Org No.):

2001282707

pISSN:

1300-9702