Paper short abstract:

The paper discusses how the demise of socialist realism influenced on the literary culture in Kyrgyzstan in the years of Gorbachev's perestroika (restructuring)

Paper long abstract:

The paper discusses how the demise of Socialist Realism influenced on the literary culture in Kyrgyzstan in the years of Gorbachev's Perestroika (restructuring). The paper will have two parts, where the first examines literary context of perestroika, based on the analysis of the problems of Kyrgyz Soviet literature, debated in the newspaper 'Asaba', one of the freest at that time. The split in The Union of Writers, new trends in the genres, themes, styles of the literary works of Kyrgyz writers and poets will be discussed. The second part will be focused on the essays and prose of K. Jusubalev, one of founders of Postmodernism in Kyrgyz literature, whose novels and short stories were not allowed for publication by soviet censorship. His novel "The Cold Walls" (written in 1969 and first published in 1991) and his essays about the problems of Literature, published in "Asaba' will be analyzed to show changes in the development of Kyrgyz Literature in Pere

stroika. Postcolonial theory, Bakhtin's theory on "polyphony" will be applied for the discussion of the topic.