Multicultural Context of the Foreign Novel in Modern Literature

Abstract

This article provides clear theoretical definitions of the main research concepts", "context", "multicultural context". The essence of the phenomenon "multicultural context of the modern novel" is revealed. The peculiarity of philosophical and aesthetic attitudes of modern Western theorists of multiculturalism and postcolonialism is determined. In this article, we explore modern English literature, namely, the work of modern English writers V. Naipaul, S. Naipaul, S. Rushdie, X. Kureishi, B. Okri and other authors who combined the fundamental archetypes of two or more cultures in their creative biography and in their work, but at the moment linking their creative being with England, the cultural and literary tradition of this country. In the article we present cultural-historical, comparative-typological, axiological research methods. The genre features of the multicultural novel are investigated on the basis of the synthesis of the traditional analytical approach to the disclosure of the nature of the literary genre and new theoretical calculations of researchers of this phenomenon of literature. The linguistic phenomena recorded in the works of modern English prose writers-multiculturalists are explained through the prism of the conscious desire of authors - carriers of various ethno-cultural roots to differentiate their cultural identity.; The possible prospects of the mutual influence of new, multicultural literature on the dominant literary tradition are indicated in the dialectical way of the mutual influence of the key concepts of "center" and "periphery", "dominant" and "marginal".