The literary concept LAND OF THE FATHERS as a way of representing places of cultural memory (based on the screen novel "White Swans of Omoluku" by Aysen Doydu)

Studies of collective forms of memory (historical, cultural), representations of images of the collective past, and places of memory occupy an increasingly significant niche in scholarly humanities discourse. The aim of this study is to model the literary concept LAND OF THE FATHERS as a way of representing places of cultural memory of the Yakuts in Aysen Doydu's screen novel "White Swans of Omoluku." The novelty of the research is determined by the choice of material previously unstudied from the perspective of cognitive linguistics—a literary work by a Russian-speaking author from Yakutia. The study employs a comprehensive methodology for concept analysis, including general scientific methods of description and generalization; contextual method; comparative analysis; method of comprehensive linguistic text analysis; linguoculturological and conceptual analysis, reflecting the most important methodological aspects of the study. A total of 1201 markers were extracted from the research materials. The markers were distributed into 5 thematic groups, based on which, after semantic-interpretive analysis, the following cognitive features of the concept were identified: "Spiritual Culture" (331), "Clan System" (212), "Land as Clan Territory" (207), "Toponyms" (195 markers), "Traditional Nature Management" (173). As a result of the study, the authors conclude that the literary concept LAND OF THE FATHERS includes such places of cultural memory that are part of the national cultural code of the Yakuts as: beliefs (spirits, deities, shamans, rituals, and others); national food (Yakut pancakes, butter, meat), which also performs a sacred function; attachment to family, clan, land, a specific settlement (nasleg, village); natural objects (taiga, lake); traditional activities (hunting, fishing, berrying) and, of course, sacred birds – swans. These features represent the area around Lake Omoluku as a place of ancestral memory, localized in specific toponyms and possessing the following cognitive characteristics: sacred territory, genealogical territory (territory of clan, generations), territory of ethnic identity, existentially enclosed territory (space of return).