Publication Details
Issue: Vol 7, No 1 (2026)
Pages: 293-303
ISSN: 2660-6828

Abstract

Independence period Uzbek prose is a rebirth period of artistic thinking, among genres short prose by its nature is a live, express and intensive genre to response to socio-moral, spiritual changes swiftly. In this vein, writers gradually turned their focus away from the external event, and onto psychological processes, moral choice and the relation of the individual to society, using symbolism, metaphor and philosophical reflection as the primary aesthetic tools. Although a large number of literary works were produced, social issues had not been systematized in that how it looks through an artistic glass and transformed into more aesthetic meanings in a short stories of the independence era. Highlighting the figure and theme of the symbolic apparently the actual cases of change of social consciousness It is the target of this study is genre potential, symbolic thinking, and the performance of the literature in reflecting of changes that hath learnt of the social problems in the Uzbek short stories of the independence period. Independence-era short stories fulfil a social diagnostic and spiritual reflective function as condensed narratives and as metaphorical structures revealing crises that speak of value, moral responsibility, and existential choice. This study supports the idea that, in the form of no formal experiment other than one conducted within his aesthetic own decisions which compounds the philosophical content behind a social issue, symbolism and metaphor won out over a sociological framework. The results confirm the conceptual significance of the short story type in the processes of modern Uzbek literature and are theoretical materials for new researches on the processes of relation of social reality and artistic thought of national literature.

Keywords
short story genre independence period literature social issues artistic thinking symbolism metaphor individual and society aesthetic interpretation spiritual crisis aesthetic activity literary process