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<article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/" article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.2" xml:lang="en"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="en">Polylinguality and Transcultural Practices</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Полилингвиальность и транскультурные практики</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn publication-format="print">2618-897X</issn><issn publication-format="electronic">2618-8988</issn><publisher><publisher-name xml:lang="en">Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University)</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">48256</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.22363/2618-897X-2025-22-4-769-785</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="edn">EWWSMA</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>OLZHAS SULEIMENOV: INTEGRAL SIGN</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="toc-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>ОЛЖАС СУЛЕЙМЕНОВ: ЗНАК ИНТЕГРАЛА</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="article-type"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title xml:lang="en">The Historiosophical Dialogue Between Asia and Africa in the Mythopoetics of Olzhas Suleimenov</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="ru"><trans-title>Историософский диалог Азии и Африки в мифопоэтике Олжаса Сулейменова</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author"><contrib-id contrib-id-type="orcid">https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9308-0094</contrib-id><contrib-id contrib-id-type="researcherid">V-1669-2019</contrib-id><contrib-id contrib-id-type="spin">5711-0453</contrib-id><name-alternatives><name xml:lang="en"><surname>Manichkin</surname><given-names>Nestor A.</given-names></name><name xml:lang="ru"><surname>Маничкин</surname><given-names>Нестор Александрович</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Candidate of Historical Sciences, Associate Researcher</p></bio><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>кандидат исторических наук, ассоциированный исследователь</p></bio><email>nes.pilawa@gmail.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff1"><aff><institution xml:lang="en">French Institute for Central Asian Studies (IFEAC)</institution></aff><aff><institution xml:lang="ru">Французский институт исследований Центральной Азии</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2025-12-31" publication-format="electronic"><day>31</day><month>12</month><year>2025</year></pub-date><volume>22</volume><issue>4</issue><issue-title xml:lang="en">ON THE 90th ANNIVERSARY OF RUDN UNIVERSITY HONORARY DOCTOR OLZHAS SULEIMENOV</issue-title><issue-title xml:lang="ru">К 90-ЛЕТНЕМУ ЮБИЛЕЮ ПОЧЕТНОГО ДОКТОРА РУДН ОЛЖАСА СУЛЕЙМЕНОВА</issue-title><fpage>769</fpage><lpage>785</lpage><history><date date-type="received" iso-8601-date="2026-01-28"><day>28</day><month>01</month><year>2026</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement xml:lang="en">Copyright ©; 2025, Manichkin N.A.</copyright-statement><copyright-statement xml:lang="ru">Copyright ©; 2025, Маничкин Н.А.</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2025</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Manichkin N.A.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Маничкин Н.А.</copyright-holder><ali:free_to_read xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/"/><license><ali:license_ref xmlns:ali="http://www.niso.org/schemas/ali/1.0/">https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0</ali:license_ref></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://journals.rudn.ru/polylinguality/article/view/48256">https://journals.rudn.ru/polylinguality/article/view/48256</self-uri><abstract xml:lang="en"><p>This study examines two of the most significant historical and cultural thematic lines in the literary work and public intellectual activity of the Kazakh writer, scholar, and public figure Olzhas Suleimenov - Africa and Asia. Through an analysis of Suleimenov’s texts, the author identifies key characteristic images: Africa as the origin and cradle of all human culture, and Asia as a space of transcultural encounters and turbulent historical dynamics. The central question of the research concerns the nature and methodological foundations of Suleimenov’s historiosophy. His approach is shown to be rooted in mythopoetics, which allows the writer to engage both with the depths of the creative human being and with global processes of interdependence. The author situates Suleimenov’s ideas within the ethnography and mythology of the African and Asian continents and places them in a broader humanistic and philosophical context. This approach reveals both the historical and social depth of Suleimenov’s work and new connections and evidence of cultural exchange.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="ru"><p>Исследование посвящено двум важнейшим историко-культурным сюжетно-тематическим линиям в литературном творчестве и публичной интеллектуальной активности известного писателя, исследователя и общественного деятеля Олжаса Сулейменова - Африке и Азии. Автором проведен анализ текстов О. Сулейменова и обнаружены основные характерные образы, связанные с Африкой как истоком и прародиной всей человеческой культуры и с Азией как с пространством транскультурных встреч и бурной исторической динамики. Главным вопросом является сущность и характерные методологические подходы историософии Сулейменова. Таковые оказываются укорененными в мифопоэтике, позволяющей писателю обращаться к глубинам созидающего культуру человеческого существа и глобальным процессам взаимозависимости. Автор вписывает идеи Сулейменова в этнографию и мифологию африканского и азиатского континентов и помещает их в широкий гуманитарно-философский контекст, что позволяет обнаружить, с одной стороны, историческую и социальную глубину в творчестве казахстанского мастера, а с другой - новые связи и свидетельства культурного обмена.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>Africa</kwd><kwd>Asia</kwd><kwd>Kazakhstan</kwd><kwd>Olzhas Suleimenov</kwd><kwd>literature</kwd><kwd>mythopoetics</kwd><kwd>poetry</kwd><kwd>historiosophy</kwd><kwd>global history</kwd><kwd>cultural exchange</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>Африка</kwd><kwd>Азия</kwd><kwd>Казахстан</kwd><kwd>Олжас Сулейменов</kwd><kwd>литература</kwd><kwd>мифопоэтика</kwd><kwd>поэзия</kwd><kwd>историософия</kwd><kwd>глобальная история</kwd><kwd>культурный обмен</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group><award-group><funding-source><institution-wrap><institution xml:lang="ru">Статья подготовлена в рамках грантового финансирования Комитета науки Министерства науки и высшего образования Республики Казахстан ИРН: AP23488969 «Обретение исторической субъектности и преодоление культурных травм в исторических нарративах творческой интеллигенции Казахстана (1951–1991 гг.)».</institution></institution-wrap><institution-wrap><institution xml:lang="en">This article was prepared within the framework of the grant funded by the Committee of Science of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan, IRN: AP23488969, “Attaining Historical Subjectivity and Overcoming Cultural Traumas in the Historical Narratives of Kazakhstan’s Creative Intelligentsia (1951–1991).”</institution></institution-wrap></funding-source></award-group></funding-group></article-meta><fn-group/></front><body></body><back><ref-list><ref id="B1"><label>1.</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="en">Suleimenov, O. 2022. “Toward the Era of Conscious Interdependence: ‘..We are nomads heading toward ourselves, recognizing ourselves in the other..’.” Bilgamesh, no. 8, pp. 104–207. 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