Özet:

Ömer Seyfettin, one of the leading names in Turkish storytelling, wrote many stories in his short life. In order to evoke national consciousness, he also wrote stories that took his subject from history with the title Old Heroes. His story, The Martyr Who Didn't Give His Head, is one of them. This story, written based on a verse epic in the history of Ibrahim Peçevî, remained faithful to the text of history but was subjected to some selection and sorting process by its author. While the verse epic in the history of Peçevi is transformed into a prosaic story, those who did not go beyond a name in the text of history became a living being by being fleshed out. Emerging in America in the 1980s, New Historicism questioned the objectivity of historical texts and claimed that they were fiction like a literary text. New Historicists claim that the history writer created the text of history with his own ideology, and perspective, and constructed historical events in the context of power and potency, and therefore built a subjective history. Thick description and inter textual methods are used by New Historicists in order to reveal the fictionality of historical texts. Using these methods, literary texts and historical texts are examined comparatively. In this article, we tried to examine Ömer Seyfettin's story called Martyr Who Did Not Give His Head in light of these methods.

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