Paper abstract:

Soviet literary studies, Kyrgyz, and overseas contemporary scholars, such as Abdildajan Akmataliev, Layly Ukubaeva, James Mozur, Rashmi Doraiswamy, and Iraj Bashiri write about the different aspects of Aitmatov’s life and his prose.

However, these works have not sufficiently addressed the specifics of the relationship between the writer and his native readership, culture, and society at various stages of his oeuvre. The main principles of post-colonial methodology in literature, especially the theories of hybridity and mimicry and imagined community, give a scientifically reliable base to analyze and systematize the information and research emerging in post-Soviet times. As a result, it is evident that the Russian culture takes the central position and that the Kyrgyz ethos is on the periphery in the context of Aitmatov's ethnic identity. The primary purpose of the research is the thorough

exploration and analysis of added resources about the national identity of the most prominent Kyrgyz writer, Chingiz Aitmatov, and the question to which nation he experiences “deep, horizontal comradeship.” Specifically, in the project, the focus will be on the initial stages of Aitmatov's oeuvre and the socio-political, and cultural situation in

the Soviet Union in the 50-the 60s in the context of Kyrgyz literature as part of the Soviet literature. The main argument of the paper is that Chingiz Aitmatov as an individual and as a writer acts in the Russian imagined community and his Kyrgyz imagined community is a creation of Soviet propaganda.

In conclusion, this project, by carefully examining Aitmatov's approach toward the Kyrgyz culture, sheds new light on the rarely acknowledged issue of the

the hybridity of the writer's personality, oeuvre, and its reception abroad.