The Identity of Jim in “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” from the Postcolonial Perspective

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10.2991/iccese-18.2018.123How to use a DOI?

Keywords

postcolonial criticism; Mark Twain; “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”; identity

Abstract

The post-colonial theory opposes the essentialism of the nation and identity. It advocates the concept of "hybridity" and uses it as a strategy to resist the discourse of colonialism. This article, through a textual analysis of the identification problem of slave Jim in Mark Twain’s “ The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”, points out that although Jim’s identity is forced on himself by social system (slavery) and cultural tradition (racism),Jim in a difficult situation , like the post-colonial theory imagined, actively use the hybrid strategy to strike back racist system. The pursuit of identity is not only a sarcasm and complaint against the racial system, but also shows people’s identity confusion in modern society.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Culture, Education and Economic Development of Modern Society (ICCESE 2018)
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