Effort to sanitize Twain is pure insanity. Tony Norman of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, on Mark Twain’s famous book.
Removing “nigger” from the pages of one of our most prophetic and subversive novels creates a space for even more glibness and self-deception by preserving the conceit that we’re a society that doesn’t “see” color.
Twain once described “Huckleberry Finn” as “a book of mine where a sound heart and a deformed conscience come into collision and conscience suffers defeat.”
Taking words out that convey the entirety of meaning to the time period, completely dismantle the foundation of the story. Just Let Huck Finn tell it as it was. FT.
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