Dzhien Zhrau, Tagai Uly

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Dzhien Zhrau, Tagai Uly

 

Dates of birth and death unknown. Eighteenth-century Kara-Kalpak poet.

Dzhien Zhrau is the first known representative of Kara-Kalpak written poetry as well as a performer of many folk epics such as The Forty Maidens, Alpamys and Maspatsha. His narrative poem The Ravaged People is one of the most significant works of prerevolutionary Kara-Kalpak poetry. It depicts a tragic episode in the history of the Kara-Kalpak people: their forced resettlement in 1756 from Turkestan to Khorezm as a result of continual raids by neighboring feudal khans.

WORKS

Poskan yel. Nukus, 1959.
In Russian translation:
“Razorennyi narod.” In the almanac Vozrozhdennyi narod. Turtkul’, 1940.

REFERENCES

Davkaraev, N. Ocherki po istorii dorevoliuts karakalpakskoi literatury. Tashkent, 1959.
Karimov, A.JiyenJi’raudi’ng, ömirihäm tvorchestvosL Nukus, 1963.

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