The Jim Dilemma: Reading Race in Huckleberry Finn - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:University Press of MississippiISBN-13:9781578060610ISBN-10:1578060613UPC:9781578060610Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:American, Books & ReadingSize:8.50 x 5.59 x 0.64 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCZN9FKXY1
The Jim Dilemma: Reading Race in Huckleberry Finn
Especially in academia, controversy rages over the merits or evils of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, in particular its portrayal of Jim, the runaway slave. Opponents disrupt classes and carry picket signs, objecting with strong emotion that Jim is no fit model for African American youth of today. In continuing outcries, they claim that he and the dark period of American history he...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University Press of MississippiISBN-13:9781578060610ISBN-10:1578060613UPC:9781578060610Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:American, Books & ReadingSize:8.50 x 5.59 x 0.64 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCZN9FKXY1
Jocelyn A. Chadwick is director of the American studies program at Dallas Institute for the Humanities.
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
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