Satire or evasion?: Black perspectives on Huckleberry Finn

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 Fi...

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Other Authors: Leonard, J. S. (Contributor), Tenney, Thomas Asa (Contributor), Davis, Thadious M. 1944- (Contributor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham Duke University Press 1992
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Summary: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
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-269) and index
Physical Description:iv, 281 p 22 cm
ISBN:9780822381716
0822381710