Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / Nenets Children’s Literature: the History and Specificity

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Issue
Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2016 9 (9)
Authors
Sertakova, Ekaterina A.
Contact information
Sertakova, Ekaterina A.:Siberian Federal University 79 Svobodny, Krasnoyarsk, 660041, Russia; E-mail:
Keywords
children's literature; the peoples of the North; Krasnoyarsk Krai; the Nenets; fairy tales; traditional knowledge; cultural values; the worldview
Abstract

This article was written as part of the grant named Creating a Corpus of Texts for Children in Their Native Languages (Evenki, Nenets, Dolgan, Nganasan) as a Way of the Unique Preservation of the Indigenous Peoples of Krasnoyarsk Krai, and is devoted to the study of Nenets children’s literature. The theoretical part of the article is the rationale for this study. This part determines the object of the study, the purpose and objectives, methodology and directly the source base. The practical part of the work carries out a historiographical review of the study and classification of the Nenets folklore, where the genre of fairy tale takes one of the key places, the specificity of fairy stories, names, acting heroes of fairy tales is revealed, the analysis of such representatives of the children’s literature of the northern Nenets people as Boy Susui, Three Shamans, and others, is done. Based on the material of the analysis of the Nenets fairy tale’s samples, the article determines the specificity of Nenets children’s literature and reveals its educational potential

Pages
2013-2021
Paper at repository of SibFU
https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/21629

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