Was Huck Black?: Mark Twain and African American Voices Trade paperback - 1993
by Fishkin, Shelley Fisher
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- Title Was Huck Black?: Mark Twain and African American Voices
- Author Fishkin, Shelley Fisher
- Binding Trade Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Oxford University Press, New York
- Date 1993
- Bookseller's Inventory # 00081698
- 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
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Cultural Region: South
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Library of Congress subjects Twain, Mark, African Americans
- Dewey Decimal Code 813
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First line
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.
