The Chukchi Text in the Cycle of Poems by Gennady Oyar “Ydvel Tulsavysh”: Other/Own in the Author’s Worldview

This research work was carried out within the framework of a relevant scientific field related to the study of local texts in national literatures. The article presents a study of the local text defined by the concept locus, namely, a philological analysis of the ‘Chukot text’ in modern Mari lyrics. The research material is the Chukot cycle of poems by Gennady Oyar ‘Northern Flashes’, created in the Mari language, with the involvement of authorized translations into Russian in some cases. The paper uses the techniques of contextual, conceptual, and structural-semantic analysis of local texts. The author of the article considers artistic techniques and means relevant to the formation of the ‘Chukot text’ (toponyms, specific natural phenomena and images, landscape, objects of vital activity and signs of national life, material and spiritual culture, folklore and mythological images and motifs, individual linguistic inclusions). Within the framework of the stated problem of ‘Other/Self’ in the author’s worldview, a set of consistently realized motives (expectation, fear, discovery, surprise, admiration, rapprochement, acceptance, recognition of kinship of souls) that make up the lyrical plot is studied; principles and techniques of inclusion in the ‘Chukot text’ of the Mari world, nostalgic notes and author’s reflections are studied. Chukotka through Mari. The author’s ‘myth’ about Chukotka as a cultural space of the northern people, characterized by extreme natural conditions, the ontological and at the same time heroic essence of people who preserve their mythology and traditions, is investigated; it is proved that the knowledge of the ‘Other’ allowed the Oyar to truly appreciate his ‘Self’ and establish himself in the Mari ethno-identity.