Huckleberry Finn and social criticism
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Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn, Jim, negritudeAbstract
In this article we analyse Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (TWAIN, 1982) considering the political and social issues that pervade such novel. We discuss how slavery, and the consciousness of white people are depicted in the narrative. The basis for such endeavour concerns the fact that Huck’s and Jim’s adventures constitute, for us, a prolific source of reflections for those willing to think of good manners, beliefs, moral values, and slavery during the XIX century in the United States. Twain’s narrator dexterously develops themes which, albeit polemic, are very relevant to our contemporaneity – regarding issues of class and races, as well as regarding the United States North-South divisionism.
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TWAIN, Mark. As aventuras de Huckleberry Finn. São Paulo: Brasiliense, 1982.
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