Traditions of story-telling in Bashkir literature in early 20th century

Doklady Bashkirskogo Universiteta. 2023. Volume 8. No. 1. pp. 1-7.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.33184/dokbsu-2023.1.1

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This article examines the traditions of storytelling in Bashkir literature at the beginning of the twentieth century. The main goal is to identify the figurative and thematic features in the works of the enlightenment storytellers, the sesens as M. Akmulla and M. Umetbayev, as well as R. Fakhretdinov as a scientific and public figure, the founder of the Bashkir enlightenment, and of course, as the author of scientific monographs, which are encyclopedic material for studies of the life and works of Bashkir sesens. Thus, as a result of the analysis, it was noted that the creativity of the Sesen in Bashkir literature at the beginning of the twentieth century played a huge role in the formation of a new realistic direction in poetry. Poetic forms, folk poetic traditions with Bashkir songs, kubairs, baits have become much more intensively mastered by written poetry. A striking example is the general trend of Bashkir poetry in connection with vital artistic motifs, realistic features and simplicity of language-style. The works of the great sessens at the beginning of the twentieth century were distinguished by their secular character, direct connection with real reality, with the history and life of the people. It is in this capacity that oral literature has become a powerful source and incentive for the development of written, democratic literature. Thus, the current determined the face of the entire literary process. Many Russian writers, poets, and local history scholars contributed to the democratically directed development of social and literary-artistic thought in Bashkortostan, despite the officially colonizing, chauvinistic policy of the region carried out by the tsarist autocracy.