A COLLECTIVE VIEW OF AZERBAIJAN EMIGRATION PROSE OF THE 1920S-30S

Abstract

Since the wave of our political emigration after the collapse of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic was massive and organized, its written heritage is also quite rich and multifaceted. Poems, prose and drama works written on various topics, examples of literary criticism, artistic and political journalism confirm this conclusion. In the Azerbaijani emigration literature of the 1920s and 1930s, prose, along with poetry, also occupied a special place. The prose of this period is represented mostly by literary-documentary and literary-philosophical works, and partly by stories. The prose works of the period in question can be classified into three main groups in terms of subject matter: the struggle for independence, portraits of independence fighters, in other words, reflections of the "Azerbaijani cause"; works reflecting the construction of civil society and moral and ethical problems; descriptions of the merciless struggle against Bolshevism and the totalitarian Soviet regime, the theme of the "camp". The article concludes that The Azerbaijani emigration prose of the 1920s-30s is not only rich in terms of quantity and subject matter, but the vast majority of this heritage is also valuable in terms of mastery. These prose examples have been examined, analyzed, and evaluated to one degree or another in various articles and conference materials that we have published in our country and abroad, many of them for the first time. In this article, which reflects a general view of the emigration prose of the period in question, the development of the genre has been traced by topic and in chronological order.