The Colorless History of That Dull Country Town: Color-Blind Racism in Pudd’nhead Wilson

IF 0.2 0 LITERATURE, AMERICAN

Mark Twain Annual Pub Date : 2018-09-20 DOI:10.5325/MARKTWAIJ.16.1.0029

Virginia Maresca

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Abstract

Abstract:This article draws parallels between Twain's critique of racial ideology in Pudd’nhead Wilson and the modern concept of color-blind racism to argue that Twain’s seeming avoidance of racial issues actually highlights a new, burgeoning racial ideology. Using Eduardo Bonilla-Silva’s four classifications of color-blind racism, the article explores how Twain’s characters, narrator, and setting exhibit the frames of naturalization, minimization, cultural racism, and abstract liberalism that enable this ideological bias. Twain diagnoses a social evil that takes shape in the Jim Crow era but continues today, outlining how our institutions not only create and reinforce systemic racism but also our blindness to it.

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那座沉闷乡村小镇的无色历史：Pudd'nhead Wilson的色盲种族主义

摘要：本文将吐温在《威尔逊庄园》中对种族意识形态的批判与现代色盲种族主义概念进行了比较，认为吐温表面上对种族问题的回避实际上突出了一种新兴的种族意识形态。文章运用爱德华多·博尼拉·席尔瓦对色盲种族主义的四种分类，探讨了吐温的人物、叙述者和背景如何展现出归化、最小化、文化种族主义和抽象自由主义的框架，这些框架促成了这种意识形态偏见。吐温诊断了一种在吉姆·克劳时代形成但至今仍在继续的社会邪恶，概述了我们的制度如何不仅制造和强化系统性种族主义，而且无视它。

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Mark Twain Annual LITERATURE, AMERICAN-

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0.40

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14.30%

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期刊介绍： The Mark Twain Annual publishes articles related to Mark Twain and those who surrounded him and serves as an outlet for new scholarship as well as new pedagogical approaches. It is the official publication of the Mark Twain Circle of America, an international association of people interested in the life and work of Mark Twain. The Circle encourages interest in Mark Twain and fosters the formal presentation of ideas about the author and his work, as well as the informal exchange of information among its members.