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Was Huck Black? : Mark Twain and African-American voices
| 責任表示 | Shelley Fisher Fishkin |
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| データ種別 | 図書 |
| 出版情報 | New York : Oxford University Press , 1993 |
| 本文言語 | 英語 |
| 大きさ | xiv, 270 p. : ill. ; 24 cm |
| 概要 | Published in 1884, Huck Finn has become one of the most widely taught novels in American curricula. But where did Huckleberry Finn come from, and what made it so distinctive? Shelley Fisher Fishkin su...gests that in Huckleberry Finn, more than in any other work, Mark Twain let African-American voices, language, and rhetorical traditions play a major role in the creation of his art.In Was Huck Black?, Fishkin combines close readings of published and unpublished writing by Twain with intensive biographical and historical research and insights gleaned from linguistics, literary theory, and folklore to shed new light on the role African-American speech played in the genesis of Huckleberry Finn. Given that book's importance in American culture, her analysis illuminates, as well, how the voices of African-Americans have shaped our sense of what is distinctively "American" about American literature.Fishkin shows that Mark Twain was surrounded, throughout his life, by richly talented African-American speakers whose rhetorical gifts Twain admired candidly and profusely. A black child named Jimmy whom Twain called "the most artless, sociable and exhaustless talker I ever came across" helped Twain understand the potential of a vernacular narrator in the years before he began writing Huckleberry Finn, and served as a model for the voice with which Twain would transform American literature. A slave named Jerry whom Twain referred to as an "impudent and satirical and delightful young black man" taught Twain about "signifying"--satire in an African-American vein--when Twain was a teenager (later Twain would recall that he thought him "the greatest man in the United States" at the time). Other African-American voices left their mark on Twain's imagination as well--but their role in the creation of his art has never been recognized. Was Huck Black? adds a new dimension to current debates over multiculturalism and the canon.American literary historians have told a largely segregated story: white writers come from white literary ancestors, black writers from black ones. The truth is more complicated and more interesting. While African-American culture shaped Huckleberry Finn, that novel, in turn, helped shape African-American writing in the twentieth century. As Ralph Ellison commented in an interview with Fishkin, Twain "made it possible for many of us to find our own voices."Was Huck Black? dramatizes the crucial role of black voices in Twain's art, and takes the first steps beyond traditional cultural boundaries to unveil an American literary heritage that is infinitely richer and more complex than we had thought. 続きを見る |
所蔵情報
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中央図 1B_13‐26 [文/英文] | 英文/TWAI/107 | 1993 |
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書誌詳細
| 一般注記 | Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-247) and index |
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| 著者標目 | *Fishkin, Shelley Fisher |
| 件 名 | LCSH:Twain, Mark, 1835-1910. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn LCSH:Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Characters -- Afro-Americans 全ての件名で検索 LCSH:Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 -- Friends and associates 全ての件名で検索 LCSH:Authors, American -- 19th century -- Biography 全ての件名で検索 LCSH:Afro-Americans in literature LCSH:Afro-Americans -- Biography 全ての件名で検索 |
| 分 類 | LCC:PS1305 DC20:813/.4 |
| 書誌ID | 1000053849 |
| ISBN | 0195082141 |
| NCID | BA20419692 |
| 巻冊次 | ISBN:0195082141 |
| 登録日 | 2009.09.10 |
| 更新日 | 2009.09.10 |