SIMILAR AND DISTINCTIVE ASPECTS OF PERCEPTION MODIFICATION IN UZBEK AND ENGLISH POSTMODERN PROSE

Abstract

This article examines how postmodern prose in Uzbek and English literatures modifies readers’ perception through strategies such as fragmentation, intertextuality, metafiction, and stylistic hybridity. While both literatures share a repertoire associated with postmodernism, their functions diverge in response to distinct historical horizons and cultural expectations. English postmodern fiction typically turns perception into a problem of epistemology and media saturation, foregrounding the instability of historical truth and the performativity of the self. Uzbek postmodern prose more often channels perception toward ethical recollection, communal voice, and dialogic continuity between oral tradition and modern textuality. The study proposes a comparative grid organized around historicity, subjectivity, textuality, and style cohesion, and demonstrates that the same formal devices are repurposed to guide readers differently: toward skeptical surveillance in the English tradition and toward culturally embedded listening in the Uzbek tradition. The findings contribute to world-literature debates by reframing postmodernism as a situated, flexible framework rather than a homogeneous export.