KazNU studies Russian-language literature in Kazakhstan

A group of scientists from the Department of Russian Philology and World Literature of Al-Farabi KazNU won the grant project "Russian prose of Kazakhstan of the newest time: leading trends, genrology, plot, heroes".

Teachers of the Department of Russian Philology and World Literature of Al-Farabi KazNU continue the scientific research of Russian literature of Kazakhstan, which was started in the 60s by academician Maya Mikhailovna Bagizbaeva, a graduate of Lomonosov Moscow State University. In recent years they have been intensively engaged in researching the problems of development of Russian literature of Kazakhstan of the twentieth century within the framework of numerous scientific projects.

The project is headed by the Dean of the Faculty of Philology, Doctor of Philological Sciences, Professor Bayan Joldasbekova.

The aim of the project is to apply innovative computer technologies in the study of Russian prose of Kazakhstan of the last decades in the context of the development of all-Kazakhstan modern literary process.

The scientific novelty of the project is to create a multifunctional IT-product consisting of an array of scientific information about Russian and Russian-speaking writers of Kazakhstan and their prose, created in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, with free access to all who are interested in the modern literary process.

In the scientific turnover will be introduced significant from the aesthetic point of view works of modern Kazakh prose writers in Russian, previously not investigated by modern domestic literary studies. Scientists will interpret the artistic experiments of writers who break genre canons, analyze the creative personality of the writer of the period under study and the poetics of his prose.

During the first year of work on the project, the scientists have achieved the following impressive results: they have defined the spatial and temporal boundaries of modern Kazakhstani prose, compiled a complete set of materials concerning the life and work of more than forty writers of the period under study.

In addition, a full to date consolidated catalog of contemporary Kazakhstani prose was compiled, two articles were published in journals indexed in Scopus, two articles - in COXON of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan, two articles - in RINC.

Press-service of Al-Farabi Kazakh National University