Siberian Federal University

Issue

Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2016 9 (10)

Authors

Ivanova, Elvira V.

Contact information

Ivanovaб Elvira V.: The Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia 48 Nab. Reki Moiki, St. Petersburg, 191186, Russia; E-mail: ; Иванова, Э.В.: Российский государственный педагогический университет им. А.И. Герцена, Россия, 191186, Санкт-Петербург, наб. Мойки, 48

Keywords

Evenk literature; the Evenk ethnos; the Evenks’ mentality; the Soviet period in the Evenk literature; the’ new world’; traditional way of life; artistic interpretation of social and cultural reality

Abstract

The article considers the works by such Evenk writers as G. Chinkov and G. Keptuke, who created them in the earliest years of the Evenk literature (1930-s) and at the end of the XX century, respectively. In their works these authors artistically depict the changes the Evenks, who had traditionally been nomads with their own way of life, experienced when they got involved into the Soviet community. The Soviet period is viewed in the article as the ‘new world’. The dramatic changes in the social and cultural spheres of life determined by a new civilization were interpreted by the aforesaid authors in different ways. In his works of the early decades of the twentieth century, G. Chinkov welcomes the radical transformation in the Evenks’ life. By contrast, in the late XX century G. Keptuke demonstrates a critical viewpoint on the ‘new world’s’ influence on the Evenk people’s mentality. This article compares the works by the Evenk writers of the early and late periods of the Evenk literature and reveals the evolution of the Evenks’ life perception throughout the XX century

Pages

2442-2448

Paper at repository of SibFU

https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/26375

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