"Huckleberry Finn" as Idol and Target: The Functions of Criticism in Our Time (Wisconsin Project on American Writers)

by JonathanArac (Author)

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  1997

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  The author places Huckleberry Finn in the context of long standing American debate about race and culture. He points out that this quintessentially American novel, assigned to many schools as an important weapon against racism, yet including the word nigger , arouses controversy.