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Abstract
“Dialogic Interaction of Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Ellison’s Invisible Man and Kingston’s Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book” is a comparative study that attempts to explore the multicultural American scene and to show that the dominant Anglo American tradition and “other” traditions are engaged in a polyphonic endless dialogue that resists monologism and segregation, demand visibility and resist any homogeneous attempts to impose assimilation or to eliminate dissonance. This approach to the three novels does not only deconstruct stereotyping and cultural ghettoes but it also celebrates carnivalization whereby the humanity of the “other” is foregrounded. Essential to this comparative approach is the postcolonial approach, M. M. Bakhtin’s concepts of dialogism, polyphony and carnivalesque and J. Derrida’s theory of deconstruction. This research consists of an introduction, five chapters and a conclusion. The introduction provides the thesis questions, a review of the literature, the hypothesis, the methodological framework and the chapterization. The first chapter examines multiculturalism as a process of segregation and categorization. Dialogism, on the other hand, foregrounds hybrid multiculturalism which opposes monoculturalism and assimilation. The second chapter explores the polyphonic dialogues of the three voices in relation to the iconic Anglo American image of the American Adam; he is a pioneer who endeavours to fulfill the American Dream and whose picaresque journey illuminates the cultural background which is imbued with Anglo American dominant values. The third chapter studies the African American double consciousness and the African American ordeal of invisibility. The African American tradition, however, is a subversive counter discourse that yearns for freedom and acknowledgment. The fourth chapter explores the significant absence of the Chinese American tradition as a strategy of exclusion as well as the Chinese American reaction. It traces their contribution and highlights their role as partners. The fifth chapter studies stereotypes and chronotopic representations in the three texts as a means which exposes homogeneity, it also illuminates subversive and counter representations that challenge monopoly; it traces dissonance with respect to self representation and the different images of the American space, which reflect different narratives of the past. Finally, the conclusion sums up the findings of the thesis.