TRADITIONS AND MODERNITY CONFLICT IN UZBEK AND WESTERN LITERATURE
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Kеywоrds: tradition, modernity, Uzbek Jadid prose, social realism, modern drama, modernist novel, identity, cultural change.Abstract
Abstract. This article explores how the conflict between inherited tradition and disruptive modernity becomes a major engine of plot, character formation, and ethical debate in Uzbek and Western literary texts. Using Uzbek Jadid-era prose as a cultural “laboratory” of social change and comparing it with European modern drama and Anglo-Irish modernist fiction, the study shows that tradition is rarely a simple “enemy,” and modernity is rarely a clean “solution.” Instead, writers stage modernity as an experience of acceleration, uncertainty, and moral risk, while tradition functions as both shelter and constraint.
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