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Jim : the life and afterlives of Huckleberry Finn's comrade

text Jim : the life and afterlives of Huckleberry Finn's comrade

Summary
"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 d... Read more
Contents

Explanatory -- Introduction -- Contexts and conditions -- Myths and models -- The debates -- Jim's version: an interpretive exercise -- Afterlives: Jim on stage and screen -- Afterlives: Jim in translation -- Afterlives: Jim in the high school classroom.

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Description
ix, 447 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Publisher
Yale University Press 2025

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KCL 921 JIM in Adult Non-fiction Available

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