Özet:

This study aims to explore the novel “Writing to the Mountains” by Cherkes writer Çetin Öner in 1984 in terms of the concept of memory space developed by French historian Pierre Nora. From today to today, the writers have written about the quarters, the quarters. Therefore, the subject of the novel is a example of the Republic Period of the Literature of the Near Period. In the study, a relational type of scan on the novel is written to the mountains and it is studied by the visual analysis method. The review resulted in the novel with traditional rituals found memory spaces such as horses, smells, scary medications, mice, hair cutting machine, deportation, war, death, religion, imam, mythology. These memorial spaces in the novel are important memorial spaces in their lives that the Cherkes are kept away from their hometown, in their efforts to stand up. The novel tells the motherly life of the Cherkes, the exile of the Cherkes, the life of the Hehes after the exile, the Russian-Kafkas wars, the difficulties that the Cherkes encounter after their arrival to the Ottoman, the Movement, the War of Liberation, the Armenian Commitants and the difficulties of the life of the Chukurova from the eyes of a child. The work has been evaluated by our part that the Church culture, the tradition-based life practices, the past of the Church can be used in the transmission to young generations and in the teaching of values.

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