TRACK OF CHINA EMPIRE IN MANAS DESTAN Cover Image

MANAS DESTANINDA ÇİN İMPARATORLUĞUNUN İZLERİ
TRACK OF CHINA EMPIRE IN MANAS DESTAN

Author(s): Emre Şeker
Subject(s): Cultural history, Social history, Turkish Literature
Published by: Sage Yayınları
Keywords: Manas; Cungar; Sin; Chinese Empire; war; epic;

Summary/Abstract: In this study, Manas epic, which is a separate work for Turkish literature, which has an important place for world literature, has been examined. The epic of Manas, which describes the war of religious and national existence of the Kyrgyz Turks and the Cungar and Sin Khaki (Chinese), has the characteristics of the ground of the Islamic epics of the Oguz area. In this respect, the struggles in the Manas saga, which combined with the Islamic epics of Oghuz field, which will emerge after the Manas epic, and which will fight with its enemies, will be the subject of our research. As a matter of fact, in our study, the individual wars that Kyrgyz people made with their enemies as well as with the enemies of the main heroes were transferred by the sections taken from the epic. In our research, the konu Great Gaza yön section of the Manas epic is examined and it is aimed to determine the wars of the Kyrgyz and the aspects of the Chinese. In our study, the epic of Manas will be studied and examined in terms of historical layer. In this respect, we believe that there will be a direction for researchers who will work in the fields of history and literature.

  • Issue Year: 11/2019
  • Issue No: 41
  • Page Range: 463-471
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Turkish