Formation of ethnodual symbols Kabardin poetry of the 1960s – 1970s

The  article explores the processes of adapting Kabardian poetry to the setting of Russian-language literature throughout the middle and early second half of the twentieth century. The authors analyze the mechanisms and methods of integrating ethnic aesthetic ideas into the general space of Soviet culture, considering two primary mechanisms of this phenomenon. The study determines the role of frontier symbolism, formed back in the 19th century by Russian classics and used in the texts of A. Keshokov - it is his works that are involved as the object of study - as mediator units of representation that have stable semantics in the minds of the national and Russian-speaking reader. The article also notes those structures of ethnic origin that were adapted to the ideological and conceptual components of Soviet literature during the period of the dominant influence of the doctrine of socialist realism, while going back to the basic archetypes of national mentality and behavioral codes traditional for the Circassians and, in general, the North Caucasus. The authors of the article concluded that it is the work of A. Keshokov that is an example of the most vivid and functional modernization of Kabardian traditional poetics, reoriented by the poet to a new figurative base, the structures of which in his interpretation acquired an undeniable dual character, authentic, both within the Kabardian, and Russian aesthetic reflection. 

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