KAZAKH-AMERICAN LITERARY COOPERATION:DEVELOPMENT DYNAMICS AND CULTURAL TRANSFER

Abstract

The subject of this article is the newest period of Kazakh-American literary cooperation in the historical and literary perspective. The author aims to provide a summary of modern Kazakh-American literary contacts, popularization and promotion of the model of national cultural development, national cultural code and Kazakh literature in the United States. Defining international literature connections in the modern comparative studies is important as it helps to understand the specifics and awareness of the deep processes in Kazakh and American literature, allows to observe the dynamics of their development and to reveal the mechanism of inheritance and the change of traditions, as well as accumulation of artistic values. The novelty of this article is conditioned by systematization of fragmentary facts of a descriptive nature in the field of Kazakh-American literary connections and the newest period of studying Kazakh-American literary cooperation, revealing new phenomena, world trends and innovations in the system of literary and cultural contacts. The analysis of different levels of literary interaction – from contact links to the identification of genetic and historical typological convergence – allows to discover regular phenomena in the development of the literatures of two countries and provide scientific justification for their comprehensive comprehension in terms of multiculturalism. Multicultural feature (cultural diversity) and multiculturalism are important in the US and Kazakhstan literatures as a set of theories and practices for understanding the new situation. The modern author is open to worldwide cultural experiences perceived by him through cultural experience of his own nation. Literature connections and collaboration in different historical periods have their one development algorithm and level of intensity. Literatures of USA and Kazakhstan today experience a special development dynamics. Self-identification and dialogue are the main categories of modern literature connections.