Comparing The Politics Of Race In The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn

The Spatial Politics of Race in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 1. Introduction As writer and literary critic William Dean Howells said, “Mark Twain, the Lincoln of our literature”(Chang 133). Mark Twain’s masterwork The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has been regarded as a landmark in the history of American literary realism works, from which, as Ernest Hemingway noted,“all modern American literature comes.” The novel tells Huck’s adventures along Mississippi with black slave Jim. It took place before the Civil War, but it has not been published until 1884, when the black people have not endowed with lawful rights yet. Under such a background, the novel exposed the extremely incisive social problem, the racial discrimination. Presenting an authentic social scene of the American Midwest, the novel exposes racial oppression and

As to the study of the work, the research perspective is mainly concerned with the following: its language style, which can be seen in The Vernacular Matters of American Literature (2009) by Sieglinde Lemke, local colorism, humor, eco-criticism and racism. Although the racial problem has been heatedly discussed and researched by numerous domestic and foreign scholars. The publication of Henri Lefebvre’s The production of space provides us a new point of view to analyze the conflict between the white and the black race. Space and time are two dimensions to observe the world, in a long period, the researchers lay too much stress on time, while the significance of space have long been neglected. In the late 20th century, space caught the attention of critics. The “spatial triad” is the keynote of Henri Lefebvre’s spatial politics, which clearly revealed how the spatial politics operates (Zhao 15). Henri Lefebvre’s “spatial triad” includes spatial practice, representation of space, and representational space. This thesis aims to analyze the