Jim: The Life and Afterlives of Huckleberry Finn's Comrade

by Shelley Fisher Fishkin

The origins and influence of Jim, Mark Twain's beloved yet polarizing literary figure

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300268327
• ISBN13: 9780300268324
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 448 Pages