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The Double-sidedness of racial discourse in Twain’s Huckleberry Finn: A Reconsideration in Bakhtin’s Theory
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Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) has a history of having fuled an intense controversy over racial discourse. Some identified the author with his narrator Huck who, despite his personal relationship with the negro slave Jim, revealed a racially prejudiced view of his friend. In addition, the conclusion in which Jim is saved by Huck and his white friend Tom has been standing in the center of the controversy, as some interpreted it as a paradoxical satire of the racial realism of 19th Century America,while others saw it as a minstrel show in which Jim is being degraded as a buffoon. It may be worthwhile to discuss passages of the novel which have led to the controversy surrounding the racial discourse to understand how they can be interpreted by both those who have viewed the novel as racist and anti-slavery. Understanding the racial discourse in Huckleberry Finn could be supported by considering Milkhail Bakhtin’s theory about the relationship between the author and language, between the author and the narrator. Bakhtin argues that the author distances himself from the language and the narrator for the sake of his true intention, which may give a clue to understanding the relationship or distance between Twain and Huckleberry Finn’s language and between Twain and Huck.
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Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884) has a history of having fuled an intense controversy over racial discourse. Some identified the author with his narrator Huck who, despite his personal relationship with the negro slave Jim, revealed a racially prejudiced view of his friend. In addition, the conclusion in which Jim is saved by Huck and his white friend Tom has been standing in the center of the controversy, as some interpreted it as a paradoxical satire of the racial realism of 19th Century America,while others saw it as a minstrel show in which Jim is being degraded as a buffoon. It may be worthwhile to discuss passages of the novel which have led to the controversy surrounding the racial discourse to understand how they can be interpreted by both those who have viewed the novel as racist and anti-slavery. Understanding the racial discourse in Huckleberry Finn could be supported by considering Milkhail Bakhtin’s theory about the relationship between the author and language, between the author and the narrator. Bakhtin argues that the author distances himself from the language and the narrator for the sake of his true intention, which may give a clue to understanding the relationship or distance between Twain and Huckleberry Finn’s language and between Twain and Huck.
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