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 This collection of historical documents, collateral readings, and commentary captures the stormy character of the slave-holding frontier on the eve of war and highlights the legacy of past conflicts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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... nature with the slave Jim , also a natural , as opposed to a civilized , man . And indeed , the most important ... nature and what was natural to be not brutal and cruel , an element to be overcome , but basically good . They believed ...
... nature and are not tied intrinsically to function : the bricks are often painted ; the clock is not just a clock ... natural fibers but of " crock- ery . " It is a fake basket filled with fake fruit , which is brilliantly colored but ...
... nature and compassion of , 15-16 ; initiation into adulthood of , 4-15 ; as ironic narrator , 37 ; and Jim , relationship with , 11-15 , 107– 8 ; lying and deceptions of , 5 , 9–10 , 11 , 22-23 , mock death of , 9–10 ; moral development ...
Contents
Censorship and Race | 29 |
Kenney J Williams Mark Twains Racial Ambiguity | 41 |
Mark Twains Mississippi Valley | 47 |
Copyright | |
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