The Recovery of History as a Dialogic Process: The Role of Judith in David Bradley's "The Chaneysville Incident"
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Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,7, http://www.uni-jena.de/ (Institut für Anglistik/Amerikanistik), course: Contemporary African-American Fiction, language: English, abstract: As the winner of the 1982 PEN-Faulkner Prize1 and being "acclaimed byfiction writers and by popular and scholarly writers alike" DavidBradley's The Chaneysville Incident could establish itself as an importantpiece of contemporary literature. Therefore a considerable number ofentries and textual analyses exists meanwhile, whereas the themepecul...
Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,7, http://www.uni-jena.de/ (Institut für Anglistik/Amerikanistik), course: Contemporary African-American Fiction, language: English, abstract: As the winner of the 1982 PEN-Faulkner Prize1 and being "acclaimed byfiction writers and by popular and scholarly writers alike" DavidBradley's The Chaneysville Incident could establish itself as an importantpiece of contemporary literature. Therefore a considerable number ofentries and textual analyses exists meanwhile, whereas the themepeculiarly central within the studies is the novel's exemplary relevance forAfrican-American "historiographic metafiction" (this term was introducedby Linda Hutcheon in her book A Poetics of Postmodernism). The basicsubject of the novel concerns the protagonist's, John Washington'sreconstruction of his past, and thus the process of his change in dealingwith (African-American) history.However, within this work this perspective has to be broadened in thesense that Judith Powell, John's white lover should shift much more intofocus. It is to be proved that Judith's role in the novel is extraordinarilynecessary to enable the process John is undergoing for her interaction as apersistent and sensitive lover is the key to a mutual understanding.Prerequisites for a profound scrutiny of this claim are required; weneed to know what exactly is the way John approaches history, and if thatis changing, but also what is he able of at which stage of the novel? Whichrole do racial and other individual aspects play in John's past and how dothey influence the present?Relating to potential answers we will go on by having a close look onthe relationship of John and Judith, especially on the kind of their dialogicinteraction. Furthermore, Judith's part in this process has to be emphasisedto work out her key function by finding out how she interferes, how shesucceeds and why it is especially Judith who is qualified to do so.Finally, the meaning and the technical representation ofunderstanding within the novel's context should be analysed.
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