Book
The Turkish Folk Narratives of the 19th Century
Москва, 2011, 144 p.
The research deals with the Turkish folk narrative form called the hikâye which is a special genre of Turkish folk literature. It existed for a long time mainly in South and East Turkey since the Middle Ages. The hikâye is a prosaic text that includes folk songs and verses sometimes transmitted orally by story-tellers, aşiks. The main peculiarity of this genre is its existence in both oral and written traditions at the same time. The Turkish hikâye is thus a unit of the written and oral tradition. Like Turkish folklore in general, these folk stories consist of many interacting components connected with different cultures: pre-Islamic Turkic tradition of the Oghuz tribes, Persian and Arabic traditions connected with Islam.