GENRES OF ORAL PROSE IN THE FOLKLORE OF KUBACHI VILLAGE: PLOTS, MOTIVES, IMAGES

Abstract

The traditional folklore of Kubachi village in Dakhadaevsky District of the Republic of Dagestan is an integral part of spiritual culture of the Dargin people as its ethnic component. Kubachin folklore is characterized by the richness and variety of folklore genres typical not only for the Dargins, but also for other peoples of Dagestan. The historical development of people, their worldview, everyday life, psychology, customs, rituals, moral and ethical ideas found a vivid artistic embodiment in the oral and poetic works of Kubachi people. From this point of view, Kubachi folklore attracts special attention of researchers as art of the people, which has a great cognitive and artistic and aesthetic value, including material that characterizes the ethnospecific features of the folklore of its people, which is the scientific significance and relevance of the study of this problem. The task of this article is to characterize the genre diversity of oral folk prose of Kubachi folklore, to identify the most significant features of genres, their ideological, thematic and artistic richness, plot, image system, and to show their ethnospecific originality.