REALISM AND NATIONAL IDENTITY: DICKENS’ URBAN SOCIETY AND GAFUR GULOM’S FOLK CHARACTERIZATION

• Berdimurodova Diyora Anvar qizi

  Postgraduate student, Webster University

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this article analyses the connection between realism and national identity through a comparative analysis of Charles Dickens and Gafur Gulom.  Dickens, a leading Victorian novelist, employed realism to reveal the stark paradoxes of capitalist urban existence in nineteenth-century England.  Conversely, Gulom, a pivotal character in twentieth-century Uzbek literature, utilised realism alongside folk humour and oral traditions to underscore the cultural resilience of his people against Soviet domination.  Despite originating from different historical and ideological backgrounds, both authors demonstrate that realism serves not merely as a literary device but as a tool for social critique and a method of reinforcing communal identity.

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