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In Bad Faith - The Dynamics of Deception in Mark Twain's America (Paperback, New Ed)
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In Bad Faith - The Dynamics of Deception in Mark Twain's America (Paperback, New Ed)
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Something is not right in the world of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry
Finn. The unease is less evident to Tom, the manipulator, than to
the socially marginal Huck. The trouble is most dramatically
revealed when Huck, whose "sivilized" Christian conscience is
developing, faces the choice between betraying his black friend
Jim-which he believes is his moral duty-and letting him escape, as
his heart tells him to do. "Bad faith" is Forrest Robinson's name
for the dissonance between what we profess to believe, how we act,
and how we interpret our own behavior. There is bad faith in the
small hypocrisies of daily living, but Robinson has a much graver
issue in mind-namely slavery, which persisted for nearly a century
in a Christian republic founded on ideals of freedom, equality, and
justice. Huck, living on the fringes of small-town society,
recognizes Jim's humanity and understands the desperateness of his
plight. Yet Huck is white, a member of the dominant class; he is at
once influenced and bewildered by the contradictions of bad faith
in the minds of his fully acculturated contemporaries. Robinson
stresses that "bad faith" is more than a theme with Mark Twain; his
bleak view of man's social nature (however humorously expressed),
his nostalgia, his ambivalence about the South, his complex
relationship to his audience, can all be traced back to an
awareness of the deceits at the core of his culture-and he is not
himself immune. This deeply perceptive book will be of interest to
students of American literature and history and to anyone concerned
with moral issues.
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