Revisiting Mark Twain's Vision: Charles Chesnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition
마크 트웨인의 대안으로서의 찰스 체스넛의 『전통의 정수』 읽기
- 주제(키워드) Pudd’nhead Wilson , The Marrow of Tradition , black criminality , doubling , New American Race , 『얼간이 윌슨』 , 『전통의 정수』 , 흑인 범죄 연루성 , 대칭성 , 미국의 새로운 인종
- 발행기관 한국외국어대학교 외국문학연구소
- 발행년도 2018
- 총서유형 Journal
- DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.22344/fls.2018.72.73
- KCI ID ART002409549
- 본문언어 영어
초록/요약
In “Revisiting Mark Twain’s Vision: Charles Chesnutt’s The Marrow of Tradition,” I discuss Chesnutt’s critical re-appropriation of already firmly settled notions of black criminality and victimization of white ladies, white racial purity, and white supremacy; and his suggestion of the new American race for the perpetual survival of blacks, whites, and America. I argue that Chesnutt’s futuristic vision on the new American race is suggested through the authorial voice of an extremely marginalized black woman and that he thus calls for a society in which race no more functions as a hindrance to any individual. As both Twain and Chesnutt use doubling as one of the significant metaphors in their character-making, I adopt the notion of twin and read Twain and Chesnutt as authorial doubling. Chesnutt’s writing is not merely a black rewriting as is often seen in many post-colonial writings, as Twain and Chesnutt are able to supplement one another through their own story as a response to nineteenth-century white supremacist fictions, and suggest a larger picture of the post-Reconstruction American history intentionally ignored in the popular genre of the plantation tales.
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