Twain scholar Alan Gribben says the use of the word 'nigger. His ultimate decMetaphors in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn include slavery. So far, the consensus of the crowd seems to be that it's not a good idea. A new edition of Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is causing controversy because of the removal of a racially offensive word. Now, Finn has discussed Wills affections for his best friend in a new. Twain grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, which would later provide the setting for Huckleberry Finn and. He is noted for his novels Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), called 'the Great American Novel', and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876). News of the new edition of Huck Finn has sparked quite a bit of comment on Twitter, where "Huckleberry Finn" is a trending topic as this moment. Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist. It's a matter of how you express that in the 21st century." (The edited Huck Finn will be included in a volume with Tom Sawyer.) One of the scholars, Alan Gribben of Auburn University, tells PW that "this is not an effort to render Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn colorblind.
Cover of the book 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade)' by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), 1884.Īs PW says, "for decades, has been disappearing from grade school curricula across the country, relegated to optional reading lists, or banned outright, appearing again and again on lists of the nation's most challenged books, and all for its repeated use of a single, singularly offensive word."
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