Understanding Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical DocumentsBloomsbury Academic, 1996 M06 24 - 264 pages Since the time of its publication in 1884, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has generated heated controversy. One of the most frequently banned books in the history of literature, it raises issues of race relations, censorship, civil disobedience, and adolescent group psychology as relevant today as they were in the 1880s. This collection of historical documents, collateral readings, and commentary captures the stormy character of the slave-holding frontier on the eve of war and highlights the legacy of past conflicts in contemporary society. Among the source materials presented are: memoirs of fugitive slaves, a river gambler, a gunman, and Mississippi Valley settlers; the Southern Code of Honor; rules of dueling; and an interview with a 1990s gang member. |
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... freedom . Curiously , this , Huck's escape to freedom , contains many of the same elements that Tom insists they pretend to , unnecessarily , to add more " style " to the freeing of Jim from the Phelps farm . Just as Huck begins his ...
... freedom . It defies logic that Jim did not know Illinois was a free state . . . . A century of white readers have ac ... Freedom from slavery , the novel implies , is not freedom from gratuitous cruelty ; and racism , like romanticism ...
... Freedom to Freedom . New York : Random House , 1977 . Jones , Norrece T. , Jr. Born a Child of Freedom , yet a Slave . Hanover , N.H .: Wesleyan University Press , 1990 . Katz , William Loren . Five Slave Narratives . New York : Arno ...
Contents
Censorship and Race | 29 |
Kenney J Williams Mark Twains Racial Ambiguity | 41 |
Mark Twains Mississippi Valley | 47 |
Copyright | |
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