Shelley Fisher Fishkin

Was Huck Black?

Mark Twain and African-American Voices

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

While African-American culture shaped Huckleberry Finn, that novel, in turn, helped shape African-American writing in the twentieth century. As Ralph Ellison commented in an interview with Fishkin, Twain "made it possible for many of us to find our own voices." Was Huck Black? dramatizes the crucial role of black voices in Twain's art, and takes the first steps beyond traditional cultural boundaries to unveil an American literary heritage that is infinitely richer and more complex than we had thoguht.

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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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 214mm x 139mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 389g
• ISBN-13: 9780195089141
• ISBN-10: 0195089146
• Artikelnr.: 21261740

Autorenporträt

Shelley Fisher Fishkin is Professor of American Studies at the University of Texas, Austin, and author of the award-winning book From Fact to Fiction: Journalism and Imaginative Writing in America. Her essays and reviews on American literature, American Studies, and issues of race and gender have appeared in publications including The New York Times, American Literature, American Literary History, and the Journal of American History. Professor Fishkin, who has lectured on her work in England, Israel, Europe, Mexico, and across the United States, was a Visiting Fellow at Cambridge University, 1992-1993.