... , or even the isolation of the Boss in A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Challenging the existing mythology might only be achieved in a backhanded manner that minimized the threat to the dominant structure in all of its manifestations and through all of society's various human class and race strata. Oftentimes the best way to approach seemingly unmentionable themes was through the side door of comedy and satire ... society (and in Twain's contemporary post-Reconstruction society) where definitions of color are arbitrary and there is no clear agent of power. Roxana's exchange of...

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