EAN: 9780300268324

Bilder-Quelle: averdo

The origins and influence of Jim Mark Twain’s beloved yet polarizing literary figure   “Astute. . . . Sheds new light on a much-studied character.”— Publishers Weekly   Mark Twain’s Jim introduced in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885) is a shrewd self‑aware and enormously admirable enslaved man one of the first fully drawn Black fathers in American fiction. Haunted by the family he has left behind Jim acts as father figure to Huck the white boy who is his companion as they raft the Mississippi toward freedom. Jim is also a highly polarizing figure: he is viewed as an emblem both of Twain’s alleged racism and of his opposition to racism a diminished character inflected by minstrelsy and a powerful challenge to minstrel stereotypes a reason for banning Huckleberry Finn and a reason for teaching it an embarrassment and a source of pride for Black readers.   Eminent Twain scholar Shelley Fisher Fishkin probes these controversies exploring who Jim was how Twain portrayed him and how the world has responded to him. Fishkin also follows Jim’s many afterlives: in film from Hollywood to the Soviet Union in translation around the world and in American high school classrooms today. The result is Jim as we have never seen him before—a fresh and compelling portrait of one of the most memorable Black characters in American fiction.

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