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Was Huck Black?: Mark Twain and African-American Voices Paperback - 1994

by Shelley Fisher Fishkin

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Twentieth-century American criticism abounds in pronouncements about how Twain's choice of a vernacular narrator in Huckleberry Finn transformed modern American literature.

From the rear cover

In this book I will suggest that Twain himself and the critics have ignored or obscured the African-American roots of his art. Critics, for the most part, have confined their studies of the relationship between Twain; 's work and African-American traditions to examinations of his depiction of African-American folk beliefs or to analyses of the dialects spoken by his black characters.

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  • Title Was Huck Black?: Mark Twain and African-American Voices
  • Author Shelley Fisher Fishkin
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, New York
  • Date 1994-05-05
  • ISBN 9780195089141 / 0195089146
  • Weight 0.84 lbs (0.38 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.58 x 0.7 in (21.59 x 14.17 x 1.78 cm)
  • Reading level 1700
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Cultural Region: South
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
  • Library of Congress subjects Twain, Mark, African Americans
  • Dewey Decimal Code 813

About the author

Shelley Fisher Fishkin is Professor of American Studies at the University of Texas, Austin, and author of the award-winning book From Fact to Fiction: Journalism and Imaginative Writing in America. Her essays and reviews on American literature, American Studies, and issues of race and gender have appeared in publications including The New York Times, American Literature, American Literary History, and the Journal of American History. Professor Fishkin, who has lectured on her work in England, Israel, Europe, Mexico, and across the United States, was a Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University, 1992-1993.

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