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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments v
Introduction: The Controversy over Huckleberry Finn / James S. Leonard and Thomas A. Tenney 1
Huck Finn and the Authorities
The Case Against Huck Finn / John H. Wallace 16
The Struggle for Tolerance: Race and Censorship in Huckleberry Finn / Peaches Henry 25
History, Slavery, and Thematic Irony in Huckleberry Finn / Richard K. Barksdale 49
Jim and Huck in the Nineteenth Century
The Ending of Huckleberry Finn: "Freeing the Free Negro" / Charles H. Nilon 62
The Veil Rant in Twain: Degradation and Revelation in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mary Kemp Davis 77
Mark Twain and the Black Challenge / Carmen Subryan 91
Huck, Jim, and American Racial Discourse / David L. Smith 103
Blackface and White Inside
Twain's "Nigger" Jim: The Tragic Face behind the Minstrel Mask / Bernard W. Bell 124










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    A Paperback / softback by James S. Leonard, Thomas Tenney, Thadious M. Davis

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      Publisher: Duke University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 26/11/1991
      ISBN13: 9780822311744, 978-0822311744
      ISBN10: 0822311747

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments v
      Introduction: The Controversy over Huckleberry Finn / James S. Leonard and Thomas A. Tenney 1
      Huck Finn and the Authorities
      The Case Against Huck Finn / John H. Wallace 16
      The Struggle for Tolerance: Race and Censorship in Huckleberry Finn / Peaches Henry 25
      History, Slavery, and Thematic Irony in Huckleberry Finn / Richard K. Barksdale 49
      Jim and Huck in the Nineteenth Century
      The Ending of Huckleberry Finn: "Freeing the Free Negro" / Charles H. Nilon 62
      The Veil Rant in Twain: Degradation and Revelation in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn / Mary Kemp Davis 77
      Mark Twain and the Black Challenge / Carmen Subryan 91
      Huck, Jim, and American Racial Discourse / David L. Smith 103
      Blackface and White Inside
      Twain's "Nigger" Jim: The Tragic Face behind the Minstrel Mask / Bernard W. Bell 124










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