Author/Authors
AZAP, Samet Ardahan Universitesi - lnsani Bilimler ve Edebiyat Fakultesi - Çağdaş Türk Lehçeleri ve Edebiyatları Bölümü, Turkey
Title Of Article
WOLFS AND MANKURTS
شماره ركورد
20967
Abstract
The male wolf motive has been kept alive in many different forms among Turkic people. The gray-wolf that entered the yurt/tent of Oguz Kagan once again appears in one of the Kokturk epics as a she wolf symbolizing reincarnation and growing in number. The male wolf also appears in the Uigur epic Türeyiş as a symbol of God. Despite the intervening thousands of years the wolf-motive has been kept vivid in narratives, stories, and novels. This work will try to establish a bridge between mankurtism/slaverism and the wolves. Mankurtism has been a phenomenon since the print of Aitmatov’s book Gün Olur Asra Bedel. This book was a corner stone to imply Soviet regime’s pressure on the people. As close witnesses of these tragidies represantatives of Turkic literatures use wolf image as the symbol of freedom. Aitmatov’s work Dişi Kurdun Rüyaları, Auezov’s story “Kökserek,” and Tölögön Kasımbekov’s “Bozkurt” are examined from the process of mankurtism.
From Page
279
NaturalLanguageKeyword
Wolf , mankurt , Turkish history.
JournalTitle
International Journal Of Turkish Literature Culture Education
To Page
287
JournalTitle
International Journal Of Turkish Literature Culture Education
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