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For many years, law and technology, the apparatuses of racial domination and identification, have been dominant terms that inform various readings of Mark Twain’s Pudd’nhead Wilson. Reading Pudd’nhead in conjunction with its twin novella, Those Extraordinary Twins, this essay presents dueling as an overlooked, yet crucial trope that illuminates the late-nineteenth-century racial dynamics in America. Dueling is an antebellum institution of aristocratic violence characterized by the paradoxical merging of violence and civilization, courage and civility. In Pudd’nhead and Twins, however, Twain uses dueling in order to unfold the melodrama in which the Anglo-Americans in the late nineteenth century fashion their violent masculinity as normative and civilized. In Twain’s novellas, a mulatto and Italians are perceived to pose undetected threats to the authenticity of the F.F.Vs in Dawson’s Landing. This episode provides a historical analogue to the larger historical context in which Anglo-America feels increasingly threatened by those who look white, but are considered racially contaminated. Dueling in Twain’s novellas attests to how the Anglo-Saxons normatize themselves by rendering the populations of dubious whitenesses perverse (cowardly or criminal) in exercising violence. Ultimately, dueling shares a lot in common with lynching, an outbreak of extralegal racial violence in the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth century. Both of them are racialized forms of violence of honor that are rampant because of the perceived malfunctioning or imperfectness of legal justice. Both of them are the forms of necropower in which the Anglo-Saxon whites mythologize their masculinity.

목차

I. Introduction
 II. Dueling and Race
 III. Deviant Whitenesses
 IV. racial Forms of Masculinity
 V. Dueling, Lynching Necropower
 Works Cited
 Abstract

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저자

• Joongul Pack [ 백준걸 | 고려대학교 ]

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발행기관

간행물

표지보기 관심저널 등록

• 간행물명

  미국소설 [마크 트웨인 리뷰]

• 간기

  연3회

• pISSN

  1738-5784

• 수록기간

  1991~2020

• 등재여부

  KCI 등재

• 십진분류

  KDC 843 DDC 813