TY  - GEN
T1  - Huckleberry Finn as idol and target : the functions of criticism in our time
T2  - Wisconsin project on American writers.
A1  - Arac, Jonathan, 1945-
LA  - English
PP  - Madison
PB  - University of Wisconsin Press
YR  - 1997
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn669505168
AB  - "If racially offensive epithets are banned from network airtime and the pages USA Today, Jonathan Arac asks, shouldn't fair hearing be given to those who protest their use in an eighth-grade classroom? Placing Mark Twain's comic and beloved masterpiece, Huckleberry Finn, in the context of long-standing American debates about race and culture, Jonathan Arac has written a work of scholarship in the service of citizenship." "Arac does not want to ban Huckleberry Finn, but to provide a context for fairer, fuller, and better-informed debates. He revisits the era of the novel's setting in the 1840s, the period in the 1880s when Twain wrote and published the book, and the post-World War II era, to refute many deeply entrenched assumptions about Huckleberry Finn and its place in cultural history. Commenting on figures from Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, Ralph Ellison and Lionel Trilling to Leo Marx, Archie Bunker, Shelley Fisher Fishkin, and Mark Fuhrman. Arac's discussion is trenchant, lucid, and timely."--Jacket
OP  - 254
CN  - PS1305 .A89 1997eb
SN  - 9780299155339
SN  - 0299155331
SN  - 0299155307
SN  - 9780299155308
SN  - 029915534X
SN  - 9780299155346
KW  - Twain, Mark, : 1835-1910. : Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
KW  - Finn, Huckleberry : (Fictitious character)
KW  - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain, Mark)
KW  - Twain, Mark. : Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
KW  - Junior high school students : Books and reading : United States.
KW  - National characteristics, American, in literature.
KW  - American fiction : Study and teaching (Secondary)
KW  - Literature and society : United States : History.
KW  - Mississippi River : In literature.
KW  - African Americans in literature.
KW  - Fugitive slaves in literature.
KW  - Race relations in literature.
KW  - Racism in literature.
KW  - Boys in literature.
KW  - Canon (Literature)
KW  - Roman américain : Étude et enseignement (Secondaire)
KW  - Littérature et société : États-Unis : Histoire.
KW  - Mississippi (Fleuve) : Dans la littérature.
KW  - Noirs américains dans la littérature.
KW  - Esclaves fugitifs dans la littérature.
KW  - Relations raciales dans la littérature.
KW  - Racisme dans la littérature.
KW  - Garçons dans la littérature.
KW  - Chefs-d'œuvre (Littérature)
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : American : General.
KW  - African Americans in literature
KW  - Boys in literature
KW  - Fugitive slaves in literature
KW  - Junior high school students : Books and reading
KW  - Literature
KW  - Literature and society
KW  - National characteristics, American, in literature
KW  - Race relations in literature
KW  - Racism in literature
KW  - Mississippi River
KW  - United States
KW  - Rassismus
KW  - Rezeption
KW  - Geschichte
KW  - The adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain)
KW  - History
ER  -