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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Mensh, Elaine, 1924- Black, white, and Huckleberry Finn. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2000 (OCoLC)607418603 |
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| Named Person: | Mark Twain; Mark Twain; Mark Twain; Mark Twain; Mark Twain |
| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Elaine Mensh; Harry Mensh |
| ISBN: | 0817309950 9780817309954 |
| OCLC Number: | 40912558 |
| Description: | 167 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 1 Trespassers 3 -- 2 Marginal Boy 17 -- 3 Shifting Perspectives 25 -- 4 Black Roots, White Roots 34 -- 5 Shallows, Depths, and Crosscurrents 46 -- 6 Identity Crisis 57 -- 7 Conscience Revisited 68 -- 8 Family Values 78 -- 9 Kindness of Friends 89 -- 10 Fault Lines 102. |
| Responsibility: | Elaine Mensh and Harry Mensh. |
Abstract:
"This consequential book takes a hard, systematic look at the depiction of blacks, whites, and race relations in Mark Twain's classic novel, raising questions about racial messages embedded in the tale of Huck and Jim. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.
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- Twain, Mark, -- 1835-1910 -- Pensée politique et sociale.
- Whites in literature.
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- Américains dans la littérature.
- Esclaves fugitifs dans la littérature.
- Relations raciales dans la littérature.
- Écrivains noirs américains dans la littérature.
- Blancs dans la littérature.
- The adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain)
- Negers.
- Rassenverhoudingen.
- Twain, Mark.
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