A WORK THAT SHEDS LIGHT ON THE UZBEK JADID THEATER: AN EXAMINATION OF ÇOLPAN'S PLAY NAMED YARKINAY

Abstract

“Jadidism”, also known as the "Awakening Era," began in the middle of the nineteenth century with the newspaper Tercüman, which was published by Ismail Gaspirali. This intellectual movement quickly spread. While building a society that lagged behind the rest of the world, the jadid intellectuals, who try to provide support from all directions, have a profession that can directly influence and direct the public, such as writers, poets, linguists and journalists. After Abdülhamid Süleymanoğlu Çolpan started to enlighten his people with newspaper articles, he aimed to awaken national consciousness with the subjects he dealt with in his poems. Being intertwined with world literature, Çolpan also introduced himself to the public as an exemplary intellectual by translating books on valuable items from different countries. Çolpan, who used plain and fluent language, especially in theater plays, to reach the public more, used literature and authors to raise his people's awareness of his people, like other jadid intellectuals. Examining Yarkınay play, which is a historical dramatic play, with Lucien Goldmann's structuralist method, Öztürkçü wrote a review that will guide readers and researchers.