Overcoming cultural trauma through re-invention of the historical agency of the Kazakh nomadic culture in the works of Olzhas Suleimenov in the 1960s

Abstract

The article is devoted to the reflection on the historiosophical works of the Kazakh poet of the sixties Olzhas Suleimenov, the key plot for the Kazakhs to acquire multiple identities and historical subjectivity in the 20th century: the loss of the nomadic way of life, the museumified play of symbols of nomadic existence from the point of its no return (urban chronotope of sedentarized nomadic culture), the reception of historical memory of the post-nomads of the heritage of the medieval urban culture of Central Asia, the dialogue of the new historical subjectivity with the world culture (inscribing the national into the planetary) and the reinvention of its images, seen by the Kazakh intelligentsia in the reflections of ancient history. The studied literary and historiosophical material make it possible to comprehend the issue of the correlation between nomadic and sedentary in the historical memory of Kazakhstani society