Noella Pereira
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Pudd'nhead Wilson and the impossibility of an autonomous identity

"A Most Embarrassing Circumstance"

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Essay from the year 2014 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: A, , course: M.A Hons. English Literature, language: English, abstract: Published in November 1894, when "the death rattle of reconstruction" echoed throughout America, Mark Twainexplores a land ravaged by racial turmoil in Pudd'nhead Wilson. The construction of race and the effect of the environment on the individual by swapping two nearly identical infants, one "white" and the other "black." Though slavery had been supposedly abolished for three decades, for blacks freedom was still far from a privilege. The greate...