Magomet Mamakaev ( – 1973) was a
Chechen poet, prose writer, publicist and literary critic. He is one of the founders of the modern Chechen literature.
Biography
Magomet Mamakaev was born on 16 December 1910, in the
Chechen village
Achkhoy-Martan to a peasant family. At the age of ten he became an orphan. His childhood pain of loss, sorrow and pleasure are reflected in his poem "Conversation with mother" (1934). In his youth Mamakaev was a
Komsomol
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member and studied in Moscow at
Communist University of the Toilers of the East. The outlook of that period was reflected in its first literary works: "Morning over
Argun", "Swallow", "Pondar" and lyric epic poem "Bloody mountains" (1928).
On pages of magazine "Revolution and the mountaineer", he argued with authorities of that time concerning description of history of the Chechen Republic during the period of the
Civil War
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in the
North Caucasus
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. He underlined in the articles the role of
Russian intelligent
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sia in formation of the Chechen literature and
art, value of rapprochement of cultures of
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and Chechens. Mamakaev's work in the
Communist Party
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, Soviet bodies of
Checheno-Ingushetia, in newspapers "Groznensky worker", "the Lenin way" was connected with
Enlightenment
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Age of Enlightenment
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. He organised publishing of the Chechen language political and literary art magazines. Mamakaev was not only a popular writer, but also a recognised authority in Checheno-Ingushetia. He edited books of poetry, literary almanacs, magazines, participated in preparation of the anthology of Chechen-Ingush poetry. In 1967, Mamakaev published a novel about the Chechen
abrek Zelimkhan, which "aestheticizes violence through the lexicon of transgressive sanctity."
[1] Mamakaev's role in formation of the modern Chechen literature has earned him the reputation of a major figure in the cultural history of the Chechen Republic.
See also
References
1Rebecca Ruth Gould, Writers and Rebels: The Literature of Insurgency in the Caucasus (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016), 79.
Notes
* Rebecca Ruth Gould,
Topographies of Anticolonialism: The Ecopoetical Sublime in the Caucasus from Tolstoy to Mamakaev" Comparative Literature Studies, Vol. 50, No. 1, pp. 87–107, 2013.
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1910 births
1973 deaths
Chechen writers
Chechen poets
Soviet writers
Chechen people
Communist University of the Toilers of the East alumni
20th-century poets