History of Kazakh Literature Classification

More than 20 years has passed since the Republic of Kazakhstan acquired its independence. A lot of studies have been conducted in every field including Kazakh literature. All the works of literature that were banned during the period of Soviet Union now are being published and included into the history of Kazakh literature. The writers and poets, whose names were even prohibited to be pronounced, have now become a topic of research and a lot of thesis works are being written on them. These writers and poets, and even some terms and whole periods were taken away from the history of Kazakh literature. Now we obtained the right to rewrite the history of literature after having gained the independence. In this study we tried to classify the history of Kazakh literature according to the form based on the researches done so far about the classification of history of literature. Particularly we focused on still uninvestigated works in the history of Kazakh literature related to common pre-Islamic Turkic history. (C) 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.