• Original research article
  • November 1, 2017
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HISTORICAL REFLECTIONS OF THE ADYGHE PEOPLE IN KHABAS BESHTOKOV’S DIARY NOVEL

Abstract

In the article the research of the historiosophy of Adyghe (Kabardian) poetry is conducted for the first time by the example of the analysis of the diary novel “White Gold and Coal” by Khabas Beshtokov. The authors focus on the artistic understandding of a specific historical epoch - the period of the Caucasian War and the eviction of the Adyghe people. The motifs of Kh. Beshtokov’s poetic reflection on the theme of the historical memory of the people are studied. The main result of the presented research is the identification of the dominating motifs and symbols of the poetry about the Caucasian war, in particular, in the analyzed diary novel.

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Author information

Lyudmila Borisovna Khavzhokova

Institute of Humanities Research of the Kabardin-Balkar Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Radima Akh"edovna Zhemukhova

Kabardino-Balkarian State University named after H. M. Berbekov

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Publication history

  • Published: November 1, 2017.

Keywords

  • поэзия
  • рефлексия
  • историософия
  • роман-дневник
  • художественное осмысление
  • проблема ассимиляции
  • образ-символ
  • этноментальный код
  • Х. Бештоков
  • poetry
  • reflection
  • historiosophy
  • diary novel
  • artistic understanding
  • problem of assimilation
  • image-symbol
  • ethno-mental code
  • Kh. Beshtokov

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