The prism of the multicultural environment of modern literature: Afanasy Mammadov’s hybrid identity

Abstract

The article examines the processes of global integration in recent decades and the
strengthening of the role of intercultural interactions as a result of intensive mixing of different
ethnic groups and ethnic cultures. In the modern world, the migration process, in which more and
more countries are involved, has led to the problem of mutual ethnocultural influence in a
multiethnic society. In this regard, as a response to the growth of vital problems associated with
ethnic migration and conflicts in the world in recent years, the policy of multiculturalism, one of the
possible solutions to the problem of managing ethnocultural diversity, was proposed. The article
also explores national and hybrid identity, which are one of the main and urgent problems of the era
of multiculturalism, and their manifestation in literature. A lot of migrant writers, who have become
the face of the transcultural process, have succeeded in spreading multicultural ideas in literature,
expressing in their literary works the homesickness and the burden of living in a different
environment. This article also analyzes the work of Afanasy Mammadov, which is an example of
hybrid subjectivity in the post-Soviet version, and concludes that the main character, in whose the author.