In a piece of controversial research, the author of this treatise offers compelling evidence that the voice of Mark Twain's most famous literary creation, Huckleberry Finn, was based on that of a black child whom he met in the early 1870s. By opening up the hitherto neglected impact of African-American voices on American literature to public scrutiny, this work offers a paradigm for innovative criticism that may very well redefine the focus and direction of contemporary debates on multiculturalism.
- ISBN10 0195082141
- ISBN13 9780195082142
- Publish Date 29 April 1993
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 January 1995
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 284
- Language English