The Case Against Huck Finn

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents iii
3. Acknowledgments v
4. Introduction: The Controversy over Huckleberry Finn 1
5. Huck Finn and the Authorities
6. The Case Against Huck Finn 13
7. The Struggle for Tolerance: Race and Censorship in Huckleberry Finn 25
8. History, Slavery, and Thematic Irony in Huckleberry Finn 49
9. Jim and Huck in the Nineteenth Century
10. The Ending of Huckleberry Finn: "Freeing the Free Negro" 57
11. The Veil Rent in Twain: Degradation and Revelation in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 77
12. Mark Twain and the Black Challenge 91
13. Huck, Jim, and American Racial Discourse 103
14. Blackface and White Inside
15. Twain's "Nigger" Jim: The Tragic Face behind the Minstrel Mask 121
16. Minstrel Shackles and Nineteenth-Century "Liberality" in Huckleberry Finn 141
17. Huck and Jim: A Reconsideration 154
18. Nigger and Knowledge: White Double-Consciousness in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 173
19. Huck Finn in the Twentieth Century
20. Morality and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 195
21. "A True Book-With Some Stretchers": Huck Finn Today 208
22. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Afro-American Literature 216
23. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; or, Mark Twain's Racial Ambiguity 228
24. For Further Reading 239
25. Contributors 271
26. Index 277