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2025-05-01
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BETWEEN TWO WORLDS: CULTURAL CONFLICT AND HYBRID IDENTITY IN PEARL BUCK’S “RELATIVES”
Tukhtayeva Farida Ismatullayevna
Senior teacher of Bukhara State Pedagogical Institute Department of Methodology of Teaching Foreign Languages
Keywords: immigrant, transitional, manifest, confrontation, reconciliation, alienation, isolation, provincial, endows, comprehend.
Abstract
In the novel “Relatives,” the writer comprehends the cultural processes taking place in the world associated with the conflict of beliefs and values of different generations. The author shows the difficulties that first-generation Chinese immigrants face in their desire to pass on national culture to their heirs, as well as the problems of mixing Western and Eastern cultures, and the clash of “old and new” in the Chinese and American contexts. Buck endows his novel's characters with a transitional, dual, hybrid identity, and places them “somewhere between” the cultures of China and America, presenting to the reader the essence of the dialectic of binary oppositions “belonging - not belonging.”
References
1. Said, E. (1978). Orientalism. Pantheon Books.
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3. Tukhtayeva Farida. (2023). MULTICULTURALISM IN THE INTERPRETATION OF PEARL BAK. UNIVERSAL JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES, PHILOSOPHY AND CULTURE, 1(6), 74–77. Retrieved from https://humoscience.com/index.php/ss/article/view/1947
4. Buck P.S. China Past and Present. Op. Cit. P. 21
