Vepsian Literature as an Aspiration to the Revival of the People (“Up the Stairs Leading Down”?)

• Published in: Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices
• Main Author: Nina G. Zaytseva
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Russian
• Published: Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University) 2021
• Subjects: early written language; folklore; vepsian literature; poetry; prose; epic; translation; Philology. Linguistics; P1-1091; Valentina; Andreeva; Lebedeva; Zhukova; karelia*; vepsian
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.22363/2618-897X-2021-18-4-433-441; https://doaj.org/article/94604c2e2bbd465bb4f83b37e599d8a0

The article is devoted to the development of the literature of the Vepsians of the early written people of Russia, whose language is included in the Red Book of the Languages of the Peoples of Russia (the number of people in 2010 was 5936 people). Despite the negative forecasts, the Vepsianlanguage...