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  1. The Jim dilemma
    reading race in Huckleberry Finn
    Author: Chadwick-Joshua, Jocelyn
    Published: c1998
    Publisher:  University Press of Mississippi, Jackson

    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... more

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    Hochschulbibliothek Friedensau
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    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 portrays are best forgotten. That time has gone, Jim's opponents charge. This is a new day. But is it? Dare we forget? The author of The Jim Dilemma argues that Twain's novel, in the tradition of all g

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1578060613; 1578060605; 9781604738117; 9781578060610
    Subjects: Literature and society; Authors and readers; Satire, American; Finn, Huckleberry (Fictitious character); African Americans in literature; Fugitive slaves in literature; Race relations in literature
    Other subjects: Twain, Mark (1835-1910); Twain, Mark (1835-1910): Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; Twain, Mark (1835-1910)
    Scope: Online-Ressource (xxiii, 159 p)
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-152) and index

    Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web

    Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 Reading Race: A Dilemma; Chapter 2 You Can't Learn a Nigger to Argue: Verbal Battles; Chapter 3 In the Dark, Southern Fashion: Encounters with Society; Chapter 4 Whah Is de Glory? The (Un)Reconstructed South; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y