Abstract :
While historical events affecting societies deeply appear in history books and documents with mostly numerical values, naturally sociological and individual dimensions of the events play second fiddle. On the other hand, literal works such as novels can take on the task of filling this gap. Fırat Sunel’s novel Under the Shadows of Drooping Willows (Salkım Söğütlerin Gölgesinde) tells Meskhetians’ exile in November, 1944 with the command of Stalin, Soviet Russia leader of the time. The affects of that period on social and individual lives are presented with that novel. Though the novel rank in a fictional system by force of the genre, the chronlogy of the historical events, the actors actuating these events and the places show parallelism with historical facts. In that study, novel sociology is mentioned; plot, main characters, narrator, period and place of the novel Under the Shadows of Drooping Willows are discussed and then under the title of “ objective map”, the historical process is emphasised and the relationship between novel and the historical process is studied.
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Novel , Sociology , Meskhetian Turks , exile.
