Tatar fairy tale in the works of scientists of the late twentieth century – early twenty-first century

this article examines the period of revival and popularization of national Tatar folklore and traditions of studying the genre of fairy tales as a part of it. The stages of collecting, recording and publishing folklore materials on the mythology of the Kazan Tatars in general and on the study of the Tatar fairy tale in particular are outlined. The period we have chosen at the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century, during which ethnography was revived and popularized as a science, was also marked by the growth of national consciousness among the peoples living in the Russian Federation at that time. A theoretical justification of the Tatar fairy tale genre is proposed. The texts of scientific works of the specified period devoted to the analysis of national consciousness through Tatar mythological images and fairy-tale plots are studied.

Tatar folklore, Tatar national folklore, folk art, oral tradition