BOLALIK, TASHABBUS VA “AMERIKA BEGUNOHLIGI”: KARSON MAKKALLERS VA YUDORA UELTI NASRIDAGI VAQTINCHALIK AFSONA

This article examines the artistic representation of childhood and initiative in the prose of Carson McCullers and Eudora Welty in relation to the mythologeme of “American innocence.” Against the background of socio-economic crisis, racial tensions, and the decline of patriarchal values in the twentieth-century American South, childhood is reinterpreted not merely as a psychological or biological stage but as a cultural construct. The study analyzes the character of Mick Kelly in The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, as well as childhood and adolescent experiences depicted in Delta Wedding, Losing Battles, and A Memory. The article demonstrates how children’s initiatives—such as aspirations toward music, knowledge, and social justice—become expressions of resilience and endurance, while simultaneously contributing to the erosion of the mythologeme of innocence. Based on structural-semiotic, comparative, and historical methods, the study interprets the prose of McCullers and Welty within the framework of the Southern “myth of temporality,” characterized by the impossibility of returning to the past and a loss of confidence in the future.

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