Identity in Kyrgyz womens poetry

Çolpon NAYMANOVA | Kanıkey KALİYEVA

This paper reflects our experience teaching contemporary American women’s poetry and translating Kyrgyz women’s poetry into English. This paper mainly intends to explore essential questions and issues that lie at the very heart of what it means to be a woman in today’s world - questions such as “What is a woman?”, “What does it mean to write as a woman and to read as a woman?”, “How is the concept of being female described in Kyrgyz poetry?”, “What kinds of challenges, women’s strengths and weaknesses do poets see in themselves?”, “What do women value or believe in?”, “How can poets express th ...More