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Satire or Evasion? : Black Perspectives on Huckleberry Finn /

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 c...

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Détails bibliographiques
Autres auteurs: Davis, Thadious M., 1944- (Éditeur intellectuel), Tenney, Thomas Asa (Éditeur intellectuel), Leonard, J. S. (James S.) (Éditeur intellectuel)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Durham : Duke University Press, 1992.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.