트웨인과 케이블의 남부 비판 = The Critical Pictures of the South in Twain and Cable

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This article examines Twain and Cable`s critical attitudes towards the racial issues in the 19th century American South Two authors were the first Southern writers who dealt with Southern social issues, the race question and the state of black in society. It should be noted that although their works such as The Grandissimes, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and The Tragedy of Pudd`nhead Wilson were set in the antebellum slavery South, they were written in the late 19th century after the slave emancipation. These works were written as criticizing tools against the moral abuses of slavery and at the same time the racial practice which was worse than the legal slavery in a post-Reconstruction South. What seems most striking about Cable`s The Grandissimes today is its rich social texture with the problems of class and race. In making the problems of race and caste the central theme of his novel of the Lousiana in 1803, Cable was dealing with the single most controversial and inflammatory issue of post-Civil War of Louisiana life Cable`s rebel against what he considered unjust treatment of the black man began with the three articles "The Convict Lease System in the Southern States," "The Freedman`s Case in Equity" and "The Silent South" which brought the open debates on the `Negro Question` and the later ostracism of their author from his native South. With the kindred spirit with Cable, Twain admired Cable`s moral courage and tried to criticize the southern practice in his own style. His Huck Finn Illustrates how the social forces in the South frustrate Huck and Jim`s struggle for freedom. The controversial ending of Huck Finn can be read as Twain`s metaphorical satire on the extremes to which the defeated South went to keep the black population enslaved Pudd`nhead Wilson represents the social obsession with blood, race and miscegenation and the exorbitant reliance on the legal discrimination in South. The work embodies the identity problems of race and class in the 1890s` cultural context.