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N : My Encounter with Racism and the Forbidden Word in an American Classic

This book is about a Black man's experience of reading Mark Twain's classic Adventures of Huckleberry Finn for the first time while in graduate school. It captures the author's emotional struggle with Twain's use of the racial epithet more than two hundred times in the text. In t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Harris, James Henry
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis, Minnesota : Fortress Press, 2021.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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