IDENTITY AND THE NARRATIVE VOICE: REPRESENTATION OF “THE SELF” AND “THE OTHER” IN MARK TWAIN’S PUDD’nHEAD WILSON

Abstract

This essay, titled “Identity and the Narrative Voice: Representation of the Self and the Other in Mark Twain’s Pudd’nhead Wilson”, aim at investigating Mark Twain’s Pudd’nhead Wilson as a text which portrays the identity of White people as “the self” and Black as “the other”. Narrative voice and characterisation which are aspects of Narratology, and it is also a tool used in analysing the text. Narratology is a theory of narratives, narrative texts, images, spectacles, events and cultural artefacts that tell a story. The result of the study shows that, narrative voice and characterisation are used in the portrayal of identity of the White people as “the self” and the Black as “the other” in the novel. These aspects of Narratology are used to depict the identity of “the self” in a positive light and that of “the other” in the negative one.