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Podcast: New Books in Literary Studies
Episode: Book Talk 60: Cleo McNellly Kearns on Mark Twainâs "Huckleberry Finn"
Description: Celebrated, censored, canceled: Mark Twainâs Adventures of Huckleberry Finn cannot be avoided. William Faulkner called Twain âthe father of American literature.â Toni Morrison explained that âthe brilliance of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is that it is the argument it raisesâŚ. The cyclical attempts to remove the novel from classrooms extend Jimâs captivity on into each generation of readers.â Ernest Hemingway claimed âall modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn⌠There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since.â Ralph Waldo Ellison added that âHemingway missed completely the structural, symbolic and moral necessity for that...