Voice of America
Tony Tanner, 23 September 1993
Was Huck Black? Mark Twain and African-American Voices
by Shelley Fishkin.
Oxford, 270 pp., £17.50, June 1993,0 19 508214 1 Show More
by Shelley Fishkin.
Oxford, 270 pp., £17.50, June 1993,
Black Legacy: America’s Hidden Heritage
by William Piersen.
Massachusetts, 264 pp., £36, August 1993,9780870238543 Show More
by William Piersen.
Massachusetts, 264 pp., £36, August 1993,
Black and White Strangers: Race and American Literary Realism
by Kenneth Warren.
Chicago, 178 pp., £21.95, August 1993,0 226 87384 6 Show More
by Kenneth Warren.
Chicago, 178 pp., £21.95, August 1993,
“... poor, male, white trash. So what – besides a desire to be arresting – lies behind Professor Fishkin’s clearly tendentious title? Mark Twain, Clifton Fadiman wrote, is ‘our Chaucer, our Homer, our Dante, our Virgil, because Huckleberry Finn is the nearest thing we have to a national epic. Just as the Declaration of Independence ... contains in embryo ... ”
