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DEVELOPMENT OF LITERATURE AND FOLKLORE BY
UYGHUR TURKS
Abstract: A distance of 4 thousand kilometers separates Xinjaing-Uyghur
Autonomous Region of China People’s Republic
(Xinjaing Uyghur Autonomous region) from Azerbaijan. Probably,
either our unique origin or historical processes determined
similarities in our fates. Although our relations do not catch up
with today’s world speed, titles of our literary works and their
contents resemble based on the fact that we have blood-memory.
Most of our toponyms and special names are the same.
Today our compatriots living in China are called Uyghurs,
while we are called Azerbaijanis. Seperate (almost isolated from
each other) history, history of literature, history of language was
created for each of us. In fact until the twentieth century the difference
between the Uyghur and the Uzbek literature was as bigger
as the difference between the literature of Azerbaijani Turks and
the Ottoman Turks. For this reason they were mostly called
Oghuz and Jighatay. These two groups had minor differences. It
is possible to encounter works written in Jighatay Turkic by our
poets from the nineteenth century whereas Uzbek poets created
several works in Oghuz Turkic until the twentieth century.
Political events in the world, plans of ruling strategists which
kept us under influence served to deepen the differences we had.
Thus, such terms as Uyghur literature, Uyghur prose, Uyghur poetry,
Uyghur drama, etc. emerged. The Uyghur writers mastered genres
of European literature by observing the world development
either with the help of their brothers who were under Russian influence
or directly through Russia. As a result modern Uyghur drama
and Uyghur theatre emerged leading to the fame of Uyghur dramaturgy.
Nowadays Uyghur language and literature develops in
Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
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