KAZAKH LITERATURE AND THE FORMATION OF MODERN KAZAKH IDENTITY

Abstract

When constructivists speak of modern nations, they consider such instruments of its formation as a census, museum and press. In this case, the press is viewed from two sides: newspapers and novels. The press forms a single literary language, an idea of the territory and the people, as a single whole. The purpose of this paper is to consider the influence of works of literature on the idea of people’s history, its unity, territory, and how literature influences the process of construction of modern Kazakh nation. The literature, which is studied in the school reflects not only different pages of history of the Kazakhs and their ancestors, but also other people who have little or no relationship to the history of the Kazakhs. Understanding of all this literature as of Kazakhs, has a goal of ethnic mobilization, formation of national identity and self-awareness.