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she is talking to herself and thinking. Something is troubling her. 2. The woman takes off her scarf and proclaims her independence. Now she is scarfless and happy. 146 147 3. The woman’s familyher fiancéher relativesand several bearded Muslim men oppose her independence and demand that she put her scarf back onwhereupon in a fit of righteous rage the woman burns it. 4. The neatly beardedprayer-bead-clutching religious fanatics outraged by this show of independenceturn violent. 5. Just as they are dragging the woman off by her hair to kill her the brave young soldiers of the Republic burst onto the scene and save her. From the mid-thirties through the early years of the Second World War (when it was known as My Fatherland or My Scarf )this short play was performed frequently in lycées and town halls all over Anatoliaand it was very popular with westernizing state officials eager to free women from the scarf and other forms of religious coercion. But after the fifties when the ardent patriotism of the Kemalist period had given way to something less intensethe piece was forgotten. When I caught up with her years later in a sound studioFund nike jordan women heelsyilai: ugg boots clearance " Friend "How many drinks did you have at the last place |
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