Themes and motifs of newly created written literatures of Siberia: the question of the comparative study and typology

The motifs and plots common for the various kinds of the literature of Siberian indigenous peoples (such as the Shor, Evenk, Nivkh, Khanty, etc.) are for the first time studied as a complex. The complex includes the motifs and plots of loss, an old man/woman’s death, an encounter with a bear, a shaman’s ritual shown through a child’s eyes. The motifs are studied both as separate motifs in the works of the certain writers and as a whole body of motifs in certain authors’ poetics. The similarities of the folklore and the conditions of life determine the similarities in Siberian writers’ works. They use motifs and images characteristic to all Siberian indigenous peoples and that is why their texts have so much in common. It is also for this reason that the same plots are often and repeatedly used by the writers belonging to the different kinds of Siberian literature.

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