Huckleberry Finn as idol and target

the functions of criticism in our time

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Author

Jonathan Arac

Publication

1997 - University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wisconsin

Language

English

Word Count

63,500 words, Guess

Page Count

254 pages

Identifiers

Open LibraryOL669684M
ISBN-100299155307
OCLC Control Number36847729
OCLC Control Numberhuckleberryfinna0000arac
Library of Congress Control Number97015550

and 2 more

LibraryThing2040923
Goodreads1572888

Classifications

DDC813/.4
LCCPS1305 .A89 1997

Description

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.