Subversion Towards Renewal:On Carnivalistic Duality in The Good Lord Bird
The Good Lord Bird is a novel by the contemporary American black writer James McBride,which retells a story of the abolitionist John Brown's uprising from the perspective of a black boy.Based on Bakhtin's Carnival Theory,this paper interprets the carnivalistic duality of this work,namely,the coronation and decoronation of carnival plots,the disguise and self of carnival images,the praise and derogation of carnival languages,and the death and rebirth of carnival meanings,which shows the alienation and awakening of blacks on the eve of the American Civil War,and reveals their bondage under the background of slavery and the pursuit of freedom.By reexamining the history,it breaks the established rules of orders in a subversive and rebellious spirit,arouses people's respect for the glory of humanity,social justice and the cause of abolition,and revitalizes individuals and societies.
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