REINTERPRETING THE FAIRY TALE: MODERN TRENDS IN KAZAKHSTANI CHILDREN’S LITERATURE

Abstract

Modern Kazakhstani children’s literature vividly reflects the evolution of the national narrative tradition through the renewal of fairy-tale poetics and the dialogue between folklore and authorial forms. This article examines the aesthetic, symbolic, and ideological aspects of contemporary Kazakhstani works for children by analysing their narrative structures, mythopoetic imagery, genre transformations, and moral-philosophical semantics.

The concept of the “fairy-tale worldview” is interpreted not as a psychological or pedagogical category but as a universal artistic system that embodies ethical values, archetypal images, and the cultural memory of the nation.

Based on hermeneutic, historical-functional, and comparative-typological methods, the study identifies major trends in the development of Kazakhstani children’s prose and poetry, including the synthesis of folklore and modern artistic language, the renewal of archetypal structures, and the intensification of humanistic and ecological dimensions. The renewal of fairy-tale poetics is closely linked to the search for national identity and the expansion of aesthetic boundaries.

In this vein, the fairy tale emerges as a poetic model of the world, revealing a resilient spiritual connection between traditional heritage and contemporary cultural experience.