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#603228 - 09/24/13 02:58 PM Re: Banned books [Re: MrB]
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Twain was powerfully against slavery. Huck is an innocent whose treatment of Jim is problematic (after all, Huck is a product of the world that raised him) but ultimately profoundly humane. Twain creates Huck at the intersection between received social practices on the one hand, and innate innocent humanity on the other. Given the mythology of America as the cultural innocent faced with the complexities of the world (see Innocents Abroad), Huck is an avatar of America. Hemingway, also banned I see, once said that all American literature flows from Huck Finn, and I think he's absolutely right.

About the N-word in Huck. Not to use it, or to edit the text so that it disappears, is to falsify the history of this country. The political equivalent is Sarah Palin's idiotic statement that the Founding Fathers worked to get rid of slavery, when in fact they enshrined it in the Constitution. To my mind, erasing the past is a much much worse problem than facing it squarely. Yes, this country was built on slavery. Yes, this country struggled mightily to get rid of slavery. Yes, we're still struggling with the consequences of slavery.
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#603234 - 09/24/13 03:59 PM Re: Banned books [Re: yoyo52]
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Registered: 01/18/04
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True dat
'whitewashing' the past won't change it.


I caught myself yesterday watching a movie in which
some guy takes a long pull on a cigarette.. and it
set off all sorts of reflexive alarms in my head
that I wasn't expecting... "OMG! WHY? Don't he
know any better..?"
eek shocked

..not a judgement... just an acknowledgement that
we change things that we once took for granted
all the time...without even realizing it.

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#603245 - 09/24/13 08:33 PM Re: Banned books [Re: Celandine]
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Registered: 05/19/01
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Yeah Cel, when I watch old 40s movies where the 'little woman' is supposed to stay at home barefoot and pregnant, and all the stuff that goes along with the times, I realize how times have changed.

They were sweet times in many ways but not all were precious moments I'd like to return to.

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