Abstract
A STORY PUBLISHED IN TERCUMAN PUBLISHING HOUSE BY ISMAIL BEY GASPRINSKI’S: THE SHEPHERD GIRL
In parallel with the developments in the world, the Crimean Tatar people begin to meet Western-style literature at the end of the XIX. century. In that period, the development of Crimean Tatar literature takes place İsmail Bey Gasprinski centered. During this period, Gasprinski both wrote new prose samples and created a new intellectual mass in Crimea and influenced them with his ideas about literature. It is seen that the Crimean Tatar literature was represented by a limited number of authors in the mentioned period. One of these authors is Mehmetşah Akçurin. This intellectual, which has not been mentioned in the history of Crimean Tatar literature to date wrote opuscules on various topics by engaging in activities in favor of innovation in the 1880-1890s, which was important for the Crimean Tatars to meet the modern era. In these books, which are small in volume, Akçurin, like other Crimean Tatar intellectuals of the period, wrote his works to raise awareness of the society, direct the society in a positive way and draw attention to important issues of the society. One of the works he wrote for this purpose is the story of the The Shepherd Girl, where he describes the tragic life of an orphaned girl. This opuscule, which shows the characteristics of the realist story, is worth considering because it is among the first examples of this genre in Crimean Tatar literature.
Keywords
Tercuman publishing house, İsmail Bey Gasprinski, Mehmetşah Akçurin, The Shepherd Girl.