چکیده (انگلیسی):

An analysis of Mark Twain's The Innocents Abroad with its emphasis on cultural representations in the American
culture, touches very significantly upon the question of the rising of the American identity and its connection with the
American Travel Narrative in the nineteenth century. While it is believed that the novel produces "pure" "true
knowledge”, or "a neutral exercise" of basic facts and realties, we argue that Twain’s narrative entails a genre of
political knowledge that is premised on the basic requirement of self/other constructions. The ideological apparatus of
Americanized emerging identity, nationalism, power and authority are fundamental issues in the Twains narrative.
Furthermore, it is not only the personal motif that is the basis of Twain's The Innocents Abroad, as he claims in his
preface, nor is it a "Great Pleasure Excursion," as he pretends. The novel structures relations according to the rising
American norms and values in the nineteenth century clearly acquired and absorbed by the American travelers in The
Innocents Abroad. It also subscribes to the complication of the American character in order to develop, process and
reconstruct cultural relations in the narrative. In this sense, we argue thatTwain's narrative raises discursive ideological
questions about the rising of the American national identity and its connection with other cultural components, the
Oriental, in particular.