RESISTANCE AND IDENTITY IN LANGSTON HUGHES’S PROSE: A COMPARATIVE INSIGHT WITH UZBEK JADID NARRATIVES

Abstract

The twentieth century witnessed the emergence of various resistance movements around the globe, each responding to unique forms of oppression—colonial, racial, political, and cultural. Among the most powerful tools used in these movements was literature, which served not only as a means of personal expression but also as a vehicle for social commentary, political mobilization, and cultural preservation. Langston Hughes, an iconic figure of the Harlem Renaissance, and the Uzbek Jadid writers such as Abdurauf Fitrat and Abdulhamid Cho‘lpon, although from vastly different sociopolitical contexts, shared similar literary objectives: to resist systemic oppression and to forge a collective cultural identity through prose and poetry.