THE DISTINCTIVE FEATURES OF UTOPIAN VIEWS IN ISMAIL GASPRINSKY’S WORK “THE LAND OF WOMEN”

Abstract

This article analyzes Ismail Gasprinsky’s work “The Land of Women” as an example of utopian and socio-philosophical prose. The work reveals gender inversion, an alternative social model, social experiment, and an educational concept within the framework of an artistic-philosophical system. The study scientifically substantiates the utopian poetics of the work, its critical-utopian character, and its place in Jadid literature. Through the model of a society dominated by women, the author deconstructs patriarchal stereotypes and portrays the problems of gender inequality, ignorance, and social passivity in an allegorical-fantastic form. In the work, upbringing, enlightenment, and the social environment are interpreted as the main factors shaping human nature. In addition, the combination of utopian and dystopian elements, fantastical space, the system of symbolic images, and the concept of pedagogical determinism are evaluated as some of the important poetic features of the work.