THE FEMALE IMAGE IN CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH AND UZBEK NOVELISTIC TRADITIONS: PROBLEMS OF TRADITION AND INNOVATION
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This article examines how modern English-language and Uzbek novelistic traditions depict female characters, focusing especially on the tensions between tradition and innovation. Through comparative textual analysis, discourse analysis, and reception studies, the study identifies patterns of continuity and change in the portrayal of agency, identity, domestic roles, and resistance. The findings reveal that while both traditions negotiate traditional ideals of womanhood (family, modesty, duty), innovative narrative interventions (psychological interiority, hybridity, subversion of gender norms) challenge and complicate these norms. The article argues that in both contexts, the female image becomes a site of negotiation between cultural heritage and modern pressures, reflecting wider sociocultural transformations.
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