Становление новописьменной юкагирской литературы в контексте литературного процесса Якутии в 1930-е годы

Abstract

The research aims to identify the narrative features of the first prose texts of Yukaghir literature in the context of the historical and cultural process of Yakutia. The paper overviews the history of emergence of essay traditions, genre and functional features of the early prose by the founders of Yukaghir, Yakut Russian-language literatures. Little-studied works are considered from the perspective of the narration typology; the documentary-fiction specifics, the forms of the author’s narration in T. Odulok’s autobiographical prose are revealed. The study is novel in that it is the first to raise the question about the essay principle having become decisive in the development of prose and descriptive narrative forms having formed the transition to new principles of poetics in larger genres. As a result, it has been found that the process of documentary-fiction reflection of reality develops into an essay principle of plot construction in early prose.