| Description |
iv, 281 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-269) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: the controversy over Huckleberry Finn / James S. Leonard and Thomas A. Tenney -- Case against Huck Finn / John H. Wallace -- Struggle for tolerance: race and censorship in Huckleberry Finn / Peaches Henry -- History, slavery, and thematic irony in Huckleberry Finn / Richard K. Barksdale -- Ending of Huckleberry Finn: "Freeing the free negro" / Charles H. Nilon -- Veil rent in Twain: degradation and revelation in adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mary Kemp Davis -- Mark Twain and the black challenge / Carmen Subryan -- Huck, Jim, and American racial discourse / David L. Smith -- Twain's "Nigger" Jim: the tragic face behind the minstrel mask / Bernard W. Bell -- Minstrell Shackles and nineteenth- century "liberality" in Huckleberry Finn / Fredrick Woodard and Donnarae MacCann. |
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(cont.) Huck and Jim: a reconsideration / Betty H. Jones --Nigger and knowledge: white double-conciousness in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Rhett S. Jones -- Morality and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Julius Lester -- "A true book, with some stretchers": Huck Finn today / Charles H. Nichols -- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Afro- American literature / Arnold Rampersad -- Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; or, Mark Twain's racial ambiguity / Kenny J. Williams. |
| Subject |
Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
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Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Characters -- African Americans.
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Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Political and social views.
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Slavery in literature.
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African Americans in literature.
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Race relations in literature.
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Racism in literature.
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| Added Author |
Leonard, J. S. (James S.)
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Tenney, Thomas Asa.
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Davis, Thadious M., 1944-
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| ISBN |
0822311747 (pbk.) |
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0822311631 |
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