An Inquiry Into Uyghur Feuilletons

The feuilleton is a literary genre of both a literary and political character;feuilletons typically possess a combative spirit, and combine narrative, description,lyricism, and argument in a free-form, lively, short, concise, satirical, and humorous form. Beginning with Lutpulla Mutellip's feuilletons, this genre has a history ofabout seventy years in Uyghur literature. During this time, the genre hascontinuously developed, and a number of notable feuilleton writers have emerged. After feuilletons emerged as a substantial Uyghur-language genre, some journals began dedicating special sections to feuilletons, and thus the conditions for their development were improved still further. This is indicative of the place held byfeuilletons in Uyghur literature; despite this, feuilletons have received almost no serious, specialized, and systematic attention from researchers.The purpose of the present dissertation is to elucidate the emergence anddevelopment of Uyghur-language feuilletons, their major authors and those authors1individual creative characteristics, the successes achieved by Uyghur feuilletons, theproblems remaining in them and some potential measures for addressing them, and the future of this genre in Uyghur literature.The present paper consists of an introduction, four main chapters, and a conclusion:The introduction will discuss the purpose of choosing this topic--its significance and the research's usefulness梐s well as the current state of research and the methods of the present investigation.The first chapter discusses the history of feuilletons in Uyghur literature, and the differences between this genre and classical genres from our classical literature such as satire, fables, humorous anecdotes, and parody. This chapter will also discusshow Lutpulla Mutellip contributed to the diversity of genres in our literature byintroducing the feuilleton.The second chapter will explore the work of those feuilleton authors who have enriched and diversified our literature, and will consider their major works. This chapter will also treat the various prizes which have been created for Uyghurfeuilletons, and some of the feuilletons which have won them.The third chapter will consider the various types and forms of Uyghur feuilletons, as well as their thematic content.The fourth chapter will focus on the future development of Uyghur feuilletons; that is, on their place in our literature, on their successes from the genre's inception to the present day, on remaining problems and some possible solutions, and on current and potential trends in the genre.The conclusion will provide a frill bibliography of all materials from which the present research has drawn. In addition, for the convenience of future researchers,a catalog has been prepared of all Uyghur-language feuilletons from the 1940s to the present.