N: My Encounter with Racism and the Forbidden Word in an American Classic

by James Henry Harris

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This book is about a Black man's experience of reading Mark Twain's classic Adventures of Huckleberry Finn for the first time while in graduate school. The story captures the author's emotional struggle with Twain's use of the racial epithet more than two hundred times in the text. Author James Henry Harris reports being relieved to come to the end of the semester of ""encountering Twain's use of the forbidden word] every week. ...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1506479162

ISBN13:9781506479163

Release Date:October 2021

Publisher:Fortress Press

Length:181 Pages

Weight:0.52 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 5.4" x 8.5"

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Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Religion Religion & Spirituality Social Science Social Sciences

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