Was Huck Black?
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In a piece of controversial research, the author of this treatise offers compelling evidence that the voice of Mark Twain's most famous literary creation, Huckleberry Finn, was based on that of a black child whom he met in the early 1870s. By opening up the hitherto neglected impact of African-American voices on American literature to public scrutiny, this work offers a paradigm for innovative criticism that may very well redefine the focus and direction of contemporary debates on multiculturalism.
Author: Shelley Fisher Fishkin
Format: Hardback, 284 pages
Published: 1993, Oxford University Press Inc, United States
Genre: Literary Criticism
In a piece of controversial research, the author of this treatise offers compelling evidence that the voice of Mark Twain's most famous literary creation, Huckleberry Finn, was based on that of a black child whom he met in the early 1870s. By opening up the hitherto neglected impact of African-American voices on American literature to public scrutiny, this work offers a paradigm for innovative criticism that may very well redefine the focus and direction of contemporary debates on multiculturalism.