Huckleberry Finn as Idol and Target: The Functions of Criticism in Our Time

by Jonathan Arac

If racially offensive epithets are banned on CNN air time and in the pages of USA Today, Jonathan Arac asks, shouldn't a fair hearing be given to those who protest their use in an eighth-grade classroom? Placing Mark Twain's comic masterpiece, Huckleberry Finn, in the context of long-standing American debates about race and culture, Jonathan Arac has written a work of scholarship in the service of citizenship.
Huckleberry Finn,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 029915534X
• ISBN13: 9780299155346
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"