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Satire or evasion? : Black perspectives on Huckleberry Finn / edited by James S. Leonard, Thomas A. Tenney, Thadious M. Davis.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Finn, Huckleberry (Fictitious character).
- Finn, Huckleberry.
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
- Twain, Mark.
- Twain, Mark, 1835-1910--Characters--African Americans.
- Literature and society--United States--History--19th century.
- Literature and society.
- Satire, American--History and criticism.
- Satire, American.
- African Americans in literature.
- Fugitive slaves in literature.
- Race relations in literature.
- Slavery in literature.
- Racism in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (290 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 1992.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Though one of America's best known and loved novels, Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has often been the object of fierce controversy because of its racist language and reliance on racial stereotypes. This collection of fifteen essays by prominent African American scholars and critics examines the novel's racist elements and assesses the degree to which Twain's ironies succeed or fail to turn those elements into a satirical attack on racism. Ranging from the laudatory to the openly hostile, these essays include personal impressions of Huckleberry Finn, descriptions of classroom expe
- Contents:
- Case against Huck Finn
- Struggle for tolerance : race and censorship in Huckleberry Finn
- History, slavery, and thematic irony in Huckleberry Finn
- Ending of Huckleberry finn : "Freeing the free negro"
- Veil rent in Twain : degradation and revelation in adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Mark Twain and the black challenge
- Huck, Jim, and American racial discourse
- Twain's "Nigger" Jim : the tragic face behind the minstrel mask
- Minstrell Shackles and Nineteenth-Century "Liberality" in Huckleberry Finn
- Huck and Jim : a reconsideration
- Nigger and knowledge : white double-consciousness in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Morality and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- "A true book-with some stretchers" : Huck Finn Today
- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; or, Mark Twain's Racial ambiguity.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-269) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612904202
- 9781282904200
- 1282904205
- 9780822381716
- 0822381710
- OCLC:
- 850214672
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